Wednesday, March 05, 2003

What Your Boss Needs to Know About XML Web Services and .NET: a PowerPoint presentation -- the business perspective. 1:25:38 AM    comment []

Understanding XML Web Services The Web Services Idea: an introduction for developers. 1:21:02 AM    comment []

XML-RPC Fun: My (old) Radio page with some info on a PHP implementation of XML-RPC. 1:15:31 AM    comment []

Amazon.com Web services: another publicly available Web service. 1:12:46 AM    comment []

Google Web APIs - Home: "With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 3 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs." A publicly available Web service. 1:05:24 AM    comment []

Microsoft .NET: Microsoft's Web services site. 12:59:33 AM    comment []

developerWorks: Web services: IBM's Web services "zone". 12:33:17 AM    comment []

(PS) "The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services." 12:25:04 AM    comment []

The W3C's Web Services Activity Home Page: points to highlights, events, specifications, discussion groups, software, and other resources. 12:15:47 AM    comment []

Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock: One of the earliest examples of what has come to be called "Web Services". The application combines live population data from the U.S. Census Bureau, current Microsoft Stock Price from Nasdaq and the number of shares Bill Gates owned in 1995 (a static baseline number) to calculate his current "wealth". How it's done... 11:17:00 PM    comment []