SOAP, REST, and beyond.
I am pleasantly surprised that there indeed seems to be a lot of common ground between the "transport binding matters" people in the REST camp and the "transport binding doesn't and shouldn't matter" people in the messaging camp. Mark is one of the most vocal proponents of the REST model (and I have a lot of respect for many things he is saying). I have to admit that up until...
Just how RESTful is TV?
I've spent some time this morning going though a bunch of web pages explaining and debating RESTful web services. The claim that I see repetitively is that REST is scalable, because it works like the web works and that has proven to be massively scalable. What I don't get together is the basic idea that "every thing is a uniquely identifiable resource" with the bare fact that the seemingly limitless...
InfoPath Fodder from the Boneyard
I am sitting in my home office and I am (after being told so by the emperor of the house) cleaning out old stuff, sorting papers, etc. pp. This includes checking, invalidating and throwing out a couple hundred of old CDs and consolidating all that's worth keeping. Aaaaaaanyways.... I just did something very, very scary and outrageous: I installed my PDC 2001 copy of the Hailstorm SDK to get some schema...
Juliet's night.
Juliet sits down at her desk and writes a letter, a love letter, in her own words, in her own style, using a turquoise ink pen and sprays some perfume on it as she's done, because it's all about love. It's to Jonathan, the guy from Australia she met eight weeks ago in that odd little bar in Singapore. Then she takes an envelope and carefully sticks the letter into it. The envelope gives her a new clean...