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Tuesday, July 02, 2002 |
I disconnected the SimonFell and Jon Udell feeds from my Multi-Author Weblog. They had been wired up to publish into my "Aggregated Weblog" category. I did it as an experiment to simulate a variety of my own "authors" contributing to a category that I controlled. After many days, its clear that it works reasonably well. I wish that links back to the original weblog were published, as well. Well, it is what it is.
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Microsoft changed the pricing for .NET Alerts. Now you don’t need the initial $15,000 fee, just pay $0.075/user/month. I’d easily pay a dollar a month for such a service. Anyone want my money? [matt.griffith] read the small print, you have to have a Passport license to be able to send .NET Alerts, and thats still $10K/year.
10:37:04 AM
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Not to worry. Russell Beattie has Jabber-based toaster (BlogAgent). [toolbox] This is cool, Russell has a Java/Jabber clone of BlogToaster, and by a strange coincidence both Russell and I worked at [the now closed] StreetFusion.
10:37:04 AM
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Paul Kulchenko [of SOAP::Lite fame] has started a blog, and emailed me about a typo in my entry about the revised DIME specs, it was of course a WS-Attachments spec, not a WS-Security spec, doh !. Thanks Paul.
10:37:04 AM
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen announces a revised DIME specification, and a WS-Attachments specification [which replaces the SOAP over DIME specification], both are now sporting MSFT & IBM authors.
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Monday, July 01, 2002 |
Mozilla does CRL right. Last night, as an experiment, I revoked one of my Thawte Freemail certificates. Today I sent myself a message signed with that now-bogus cert. Few people have ever used an S/MIME cert. Still fewer, I am sure, have explored how email software deals with a CRL (certificate revocation list). ...
6:42:13 PM
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Transmeta gadgets and paradigm shift gear grinding. Transmeta threw a great party last night at the Rockefeller Center. Lots of nifty Crusoe-based gadgets were on display, including the OQO Ultra-Personal Computer. It wants to be a universal engine that powers your desktop, detaches and docks into a notebook, or stands alone as a somewhat portly PDA. Everybody wanted one, including me -- and I'm not known for gadget lust. ...
6:42:13 PM
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Glue, Gaia, and the services grid. Graham Glass, the wizard behind The Mind Electric, is "100% sure" that grid computing is the future. To prepare for it he's building Gaia, which in its first incarnation will be used to do simple, lightweight clustering and load-balancing of web services. Those services, initially, will be Java-based and written in TME's SOAP toolkit, Glue, but Graham's working on .NET bindings as well. ...
6:42:13 PM
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cool, Mark Baker started a blog, welcome Mark.
6:42:11 PM
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Wes is reading A Deepness in the Sky. A great read, I just finished reading A fire upon the deep, also excellent.
6:42:11 PM
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Axis-dev: Support for DIME according to the new released spec. [Sam Ruby] Cool !, currently updating the PocketSOAP DIME code to match the new spec.
6:42:11 PM
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BlogToaster appears to have gone down well with the bloggers, its now upto number 6 on blogdex, and there's 147 people using the toaster as of now. As MSN has a limit of 150 for the buddy list, you'd better get in quick if you're not using it already!. I ought to be able to bring up another instance of toaster to get another 150 people going, I really need to get the code finished and packaged, so anyone can run there own BlogToaster hub.
6:42:11 PM
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen announces a revised DIME specification, and a WS-Security specification [which replaces the SOAP over DIME specification], both are now sporting MSFT & IBM authors.
6:42:11 PM
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David McCusker is chronicling his experiences with his new TiBook.
6:42:10 PM
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WSIL?. Timothy Appnel on WSIL. OK, so I must be missing something.... How's this different from the old DISCO again? Can anyone explain? Simon? [Commonality] The main difference is that the spec has both IBM & Microsoft's name on the cover.
6:42:06 PM
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WebServices.Org: "IBM donate key Web Services technologies to Apache" The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) and WS-Inspection for Java Implementation (WSIL4J) are now Apache projects. [snellspace] Now all they need to do is fix the license on the dependencies, so its actually usable.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 |
Convergence: I'll take computer/phone over screen/paper. Microsoft's Jeff Raikes beat the drum this morning for the tablet PC. The preview of Office integration was a underwhelming, though. Converting an inked address into an Outlook involved lassoing the thing, recognizing it, sending the recognized text to the clipboard, dropping it into Outlook, and then...just like you have to do today...dragging the elements (name, phone number, email) individually into their slots. Sigh. This isn't going to be the year of paper/screen convergence. Maybe not even the decade. Sitting next to Steve Gillmor, I dropped my yellow legal pad onto the floor and said: "Oops. There goes $2500." Absent a digital surface that has the qualities of paper that matter -- including being cheap and disposable -- I see digital ink as sometimes useful but not revolutionary. ...
3:39:12 PM
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XMethods uses SonicMQ for asynch version of XSpace. Tony Hong from XMethods is here, showing a nifty evolution of XSpace. It's currently a service that implements a simple shared address book. The concept is that of a tuplespace updated and queried by SOAP messages. The new twist, slated to become available July 15, is the use of SonicMQ, a JMS (Java Messaging Service) provider, to add reliability, security, and pub-sub notification services to the message flow. ...
3:39:12 PM
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Google, PageRank and k-logging. My weblog buddies will enjoy this sidebar to an article on the Google search appliance. When I say "Google" in that piece, I mean it in a generic sense. Today we associate PageRank with Google. There will be other ways to pool human evaluation of information, and Google will not be the only inventor of such techniques. ...
3:39:09 PM
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Wireless in NYC. One of my Linux Magazine pals, Jeremy Zawodny, has started a weblog. Jeremy is one of those guys who does more than humanly possible. Works for Yahoo Finance by day, and Linux Magazine by night, and (I'm not sure when) is also writing the O'Reilly MySQL book. So of course, there's time for a weblog too. Here's an item from Jeremy: ...
3:39:08 PM
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XMethods uses SonicMQ for asynch version of XSpace. Tony Hong from XMethods is here, showing a nifty evolution of XSpace. It's currently a service that implements a simple shared address book. The concept is that of a tuplespace updated and queried by SOAP messages. The new twist, slated to become available July 15, is the use of SonicMQ, a JMS (Java Messaging Service) provider, to add reliability, security, and pub-sub notification services to the message flow. ... [Jon's Radio]
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
Almost got day 10 done, but for some reason Mozilla and IE both leave a gap between the top and the start of the nav cells, It looks fine on Opera 6 though.
1:54:09 PM
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Congrat's to Tomas on getting his bachellor's degree, As for book recomendations, here's some recent reads that I liked.
1:54:09 PM
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A heads up from Tivo, the England/Brazil game, and the USA/Germany game have moved from ESPN2 to EPSN.
1:54:08 PM
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New Books. My copies of John Cough's "Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime" and Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" just arrived... Great! [Commonality] Good choice !, I've heard Peter say Cough's book is good, and Refactoring is a favorite of mine.
1:54:08 PM
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Day 8: Constructing meaningful page titles : Nothing too strenuous so far, I already had DOCTYPEs everywhere, and the blog already had the lang attribute, it took me all of 30 seconds to get the PocketSOAP site updated with a lang attribute. Just finished following Jake's instructions on how to add the date to the archive pages.
1:54:08 PM
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Editors' Newswire for 19 June, 2002. Newswire stories, including: Sun release Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.0. [xmlhack] Does this mean there'll be a flury of JAX-RPC / JAX-M toolkits to follow ?
1:54:08 PM
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Interop results udpated to include the WebMethods endpoint, and the group C Sun endpoint, and revised results for NuSOAP, Axis & Apache SOAP. Axis seems to be shaping up, just needs the mustUnderstand handling straightening out.
1:54:07 PM
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doc/literal/wrapped is being discussed over on SOAPBuilders. My biggest gripe is that in .NET wrapped mode is triggered by the putting the magic word "parameters" as the part name in the WSDL, so this is no different to there being a real indication that its RPC in the WSDL. This really should be a switch on the WSDL tools. To make things worse, it seems like other people are following Microsoft down the same rat hole.
1:54:07 PM
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Baby boom. A minor baby boom has occurred in my weblog neighborhood. Congratulations, Gordon and Jeroen! A few years from now, these magical days will still be as vivid as they are right now. The challenges will be different, but the rewards will be as great. ...
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Monday, June 17, 2002 |
Is web services orchestration a new class of problem?. I agree with the RESTian argument that SOAP-accessible web services should support HTTP GET where appropriate. The notion is that this will help ensure low coordination costs both for person-to-machine as well as machine-to-machine communication. ...
3:43:02 PM
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Dave Winer's get-well e-card is here. ...
10:43:02 AM
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Now, I'm using Peter Drayton's RSS 0.91 XML schema which abides the Userland mandated five hundred character max. However, Radio itself does not seem to abide by this rule when emitting the description element. ..... [Drew's Blog] Radio generates RSS 0.92 not 0.91, here's the spec
9:26:03 AM
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Here is an update on my friend and boss Dave Winer. He is in the hospital and will remain there until next weekend. [John Robb] No aliens then this time, hope you have a speedy recovery Dave.
9:26:03 AM
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Sam, its working now, right ?
9:26:03 AM
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Clear [remove all watches] and Import [import watch list from a mySubscriptions.opml file] both up and running.
9:26:03 AM
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Drew has some good suggestions for the BlogToaster, expect to seem them implemented soon.
9:26:03 AM
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I think aliens must of kidnapped Dave, no scripting news since Friday.
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I have a very beta version of blogToaster up and running, feel free to give it a go [you need MSN Messenger]. Add "toaster@zaks.demon.co.uk" as a new contact, and start a chat session, enter "add http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/" and hit enter, repeat with all the URL's of the weblogs you want to get notified about. enter "list" to see the list of URL's you've registered. When BlogToaster picks up a change from weblogs.com of a URL you've registered, it'll send you a message.
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9:26:03 AM
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I think it's absolutely critical for someone to provide a news/mail bridge, even if it's a "for pay" service. I would pay a few dollars a month to have my mailing lists shunted through a news server, and empty out my inbox and its tremendous traffic. News is so much easier to weed through, and don't interrupt me during the day with the flapping bat wings. :) [The .NET Guy: Rants] I'm on an insane number of mailing lists at this point, but I run most of them through the mail 2 news gateway built into Mailtraq, and read them with Agent. It works much better than any other approach I've tried.
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Friday, June 14, 2002 |
Hey, Mark Ericson, my partner in code, a/k/a the other "Mindreef Guy", now has his own weblog! [Wavicle]
3:00:05 PM
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Posted some updated interop results that include the results against the Sun endpoint, looks to be in pretty good shape.
3:00:05 PM
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Rich Salz email me to point out that WS-Security will let you do digital signatures, something you can't do with SSL. Thanks Rich
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It's even worse than it appears, according to email correspondent Stephen Dulaney (quoted with permission): ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
Ruby (the language), TupleSpaces, REST, and Ruby (Sam). I wish I could point to an article by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt in the April issue of Linux Magazine, because it has a beautiful example of a chat system done using Ruby's tuplespace and drb (distributed Ruby). I'll link to it when it posts. Here's what reminded me of it: ...
8:17:18 AM
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But part of the potential of WS-Security is to be able to have an authenticated (and possibly signed) transmission without having to encrypt the entire message. Important, I think, for both the point-to-point case and with intermediaries.[Greg Reinacker's Weblog] Certainly important for the intermediary case, not sure about the point-to-point case, the only thing it seems to buy you is a consistent approach with the approach required for intermediaries. Its going to cost you though at run time, I guess it'll be a while before a WS-Security implementation has been tuned to the level current SSL implementations have. SSL also has the advantage of being able to amortize the cost of establishing the session key over multiple message exchanges, via HTTP persistent connections.
8:17:01 AM
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I've updated the web services security story with some input from Justin Rudd. [Greg Reinacker's Weblog] Putting credentials in a SOAP header without an ecrypted channel is a waste of time, but if you have an encrypted channel, you might as well use the channel's authentication support. WS-Security only starts to make sense [much the same as SOAP] when you have intermediaries.
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