BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to TX Meryl, I found this article describing web services in clear, comprehensible terms. I like the article, but UDDI is NOT the approach to take for web services discovery. Not! Not! Not! Not! Create a beautiful distributed technology, and then capture it and constrain it by a centralized discovery service operated […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is still talking about web versus C programming language. He mentions that scripting is what holds the web together. Dave, someone has to write the base. You can’t create full applications with Javascript, without something taking the script and translating it into machine understandable bits. And that translation is accomplished through programming […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is referencing his Full Peer again. I like the concept of peers being able to link and serve as each other’s cloud. To me this is true distributed computing. However, a “peer” that’s guaranteed to be up 24 hours a day isn’t a true peer — it becomes a server. […]
When people say something I want to respond to, I respond to it. And other people are, hopefully, responding to me if I say something interesting. When I respond to what others write, it is a compliment. It means that what was said definitely got my interest, regardless of whether I agree with what was […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m extremely pleased to see the formation of a new working group at the W3C. It will be responsible for generating some meaning of the chaos that is Web Services. I may not be an adherant of the “Standards at all cost” club, but we do need to have standardization in three specific […]