SOAP vs REST: The war between simplicity and standards A February 2007 Evans Data survey found a 37% increase in those implementing or considering REST, with 25% considering REST-Based Web Services as a simpler alternative to SOAP-based services. And that was last year, before social networking really exploded and the integration of Web 2.0 sites via REST-based services took over the face of the Internet.
The Way We'll Watch Ooo! Tragic missed-PR opportunity for JavaFX. Still, no mention of Adobe, Microsoft, or any other RIA/video vendor.
Gaps blight JavaFX early promise "Here's Sun's chance to get it right second time around: to create a searchable online marketplace with point-and-click install of third-party libraries and widgets. A component ecosystem. Once again, Sun is leaving this vital aspect of the product to pure chance, no doubt hoping that a charitable third-party somewhere will handle this for them." BLAMO! See, buddy, it's all about the marketplace: enabling software developers to sell their software directly and fix up the micro-ISV revenue bleed from open source.
Wal-Mart to Sell iPhone Later This Month: Reports "Employees at various Wal-Mart stores told Reuters on Monday the retailer will sell the iPhone in a week or two, although a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said the retailer has 'made no official announcement" on offering the iPhone at this time.'" at $99. Dude, I'm totally buying my mom one.
Identity 2.0 · Dick Hardt joins Microsoft "I will have the title Partner Architect and will be working on consumer, enterprise and government identity problems. My open source, open web and digital community experience will continue to guide my thinking. For me, this is an opportunity to work on the identity problems I have been toiling over for the last six years, but now with massive resources."
RightScale MySQL on EBS and Splunk Support | IT Management and Cloud Blog "RightScale is pleased to announce our cooperation with Splunk to provide an integrated solution for searching and navigating all your logs and IT data in real time. RightScale users will soon have access to ServerTemplates and RightScripts for running Splunk within our automated cloud computing management platform."
3M cutting 2,300 jobs, trims forecast Man, what are all these laid off people going to do about health-insurance. We better fix that shit in the states.
An update to the AdWords alcohol policy "This fall, we changed our policy around beer, for the first time allowing advertisements of its sale in the U.S. via AdWords. And starting today, in response to advertiser feedback we've received over the years, we'll permit the advertisement of hard alcohol and liqueurs that target the U.S." Man, I hope this means more cash for DrunkAndRetired.com.
MultiScaleImage: Flex Deep Zoom Component — RTFM / Daniel Gasienica "Ever since I published my proof of concept of Deep Zoom in Flash, many people from around the world got in touch with me and told me that they also wanted to play around with this technology. Therefore, for a couple of months now, I’ve been working on a framework for ZUIs and multi-scale images for Flash called OpenZoom. The framework is still work in progress and I won’t focus on it today. However, I promise you it will definitely be topic of many posts in the future."
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