This goes back weeks and weeks; I’ve been wide-finding and doing Sun stuff and the Web-watching has suffered.
This Seems Odd · Microsoft evangelist highlights WordPerfect release. Let me repeat: Microsoft evangelist highlights WordPerfect release. Nope; could repeat it a half-dozen more times and I still wouldn’t get used to it. ¶
Danger, Will Robinson · SOA puts the S in ESB. ¶
What’s At the Center of Everything? · Well, if by “Everything” you mean the Web, and for professional purposes I often do, the answer is clear: Apache. I think Erik understates the case. ¶
“Protocol” · Quoting from Astoria Design: payload formats: For the most part there is a single “protocol”, and by that I mean the set of HTTP headers for requests and responses, as well as the overall interaction model. What else could you possibly mean? ¶
Plus, there are some smart things about Atom and APP.
Don’t Do That · Which is really Shorter Chad Fowler; the long version is The Big Rewrite, which ought to be read by everyone who does this for a living. I’ve been guilty, you’ve been guilty, we’ve all been guilty. ¶
Eeeeeek! · Yes, you can use JSON for documents. But on the evidence, two tries aren’t enough. I mean, I think it’s a bad idea, but it seems like it shouldn’t have to be this ugly. ¶
OSS · Which stands for One-Stop Shop of course; my employer has set one up for all things Scripting-related. This net is being cast fairly wide, obviously, and I’m hoping the trend starts being reflected internally; it should be no surprise that our dynamic-language related work is, at the moment, a fairly grassroots-y kind of thing; thus insanely efficient and agile. At some point, the costs and advantages of being a BigCo will swing into play. ¶
We Already Knew That · That Software Is Hard. Otherwise, the pay would be lower, right? Seriously, while there’s nothing actually new in this piece, it’s a message that needs to be repeated, using fresh words if necessary, as often as necessary. ¶
Comment feed for ongoing:
From: Toby DiPasquale (Oct 04 2007, at 07:41)
The SOA/ESB link is 404'd.
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From: Alastair (Oct 04 2007, at 08:30)
Seems the SOA link is invalid.
"Our apologies...
The page you requested cannot be displayed"
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From: Tim (Oct 04 2007, at 09:51)
Uh, I just tried the IBM link from my browser and my feed reader, and it worked OK in both. A mystery is afoot?
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From: Patrick Mueller (Oct 04 2007, at 10:33)
The SOA link, to Bobby Woolf's blog, is a blog hosted at IBM's developerWorks site. They just did some re-hosting of the servers; redirects are in place now, for me anyway. I suspect there was a window where the redirect didn't work, or the blogging engine was actually just down.
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From: Alastair (Oct 04 2007, at 10:46)
Here's the Google cache from September 13th 2007.
<http://72.14.209.104/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww-03.ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2Fblogs%2Fpage%2Fwoolf%3Fentry%3Dibm_says_esbs_good&btnG=Search>
The link most definitely does not work down here in Oklahoma.
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From: len (Oct 04 2007, at 14:00)
As much as the uberGeeks may hate it, the new breed of RAD tools remove a lot of choice AND error by aggregation. Simplifying management of code construction goes a long way toward simplifying the code.
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