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The good, the bad, and the ugly: WS-splat standards rated

How have the bewildering array of WS-* specs been faring as of late? Does anybody care?Steve Jones cares a lot, and didnt mince any words in his latest critique of the WS-splats, separating the good from the bad and ugly.Steve said that some basic fundamentals, such as WSDL, WS-Addressing, and...

Tags: WS-splat, Web Services, Standards Watch, General

Blog posts 2006-11-30

XML founder takes on WS-splat

XML founder takes on WS-splatTim, I totally AgreeThe problem with allot of these companies and new standards is one the one hand they are or were influenced by these industry giants, then later abandoned ie Microsoft for more complex proprietary ones that destroy them. Take XHTML...Microsoft has all but abandoned...

Tags: Quality, standards, WS-splat, XML, industry

Discussion threads 2006-03-29

Additional Resources

World's first wind-powered vehicle race

World's first wind-powered vehicle raceKewl but sorta done already.Sorta like sailing, but without wind, your dead in the water, guess you could pedal.. lolRE: World's first wind-powered vehicle raceNot even the first LAND vehicle, wind powered race. The ice boats on Lake Geneva WS. were racing at 40+MPH, 50 years...

Tags: first wind powered vehicle, wind powered vehicle

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Deal With Errors in XML Parsing: Handle Errors in XML Parsing With SAX

With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Java language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between a parser and the XML data....

Tags: Java, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-07-22

McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops

You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...

Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...

Tags: industry, Big 3, sales, therapy, Saturn

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisiton

I took my first briefing with Mindreef, given their neighborly proximity, about three years ago. The seasoned team had a hit on their hands with SOAPscope, and their timing in the SOA market was great. But I'm not sure the company grew as was hoped, and perhaps the fast evolution...

Tags: Acquisition, Progress Software Corp., SOA, Mindreef, SOAPscope, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymede

Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymedecomparison to netbeans?I keep hearing really good things about netbeans... is there a comparison between the two?RE: Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at GanymedeEveryone know Ganymede was destroyed in the Inter Galactic wars. Leaving the Doctor as the lone survivor.Depends on your needsI jumped...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Ganymede, Eclipse 2008

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

MacPhobia vs. PCPhobia

MacPhobia vs. PCPhobiaThe other common problem I see here at workare the result of ifrared mice in many cases. A simple test to try would be to just attach a wired usb mouse into the unit and use it for a while.If the cursor ceases to jump, you have found...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Apple Macintosh, PCPhobia, MacPhobia, PC

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do With Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)

Microsoft Silverlight 2 has a robust networking stack, and it supports Representational State Transfer REST, SOAP, WS, HTTP endpoints, and even cross-domain networking. This webcast examines how to implement calls to Web services from the Silverlight 2 Microsoft .NET-connected applications using a variety of methods, including standard ASP.NET Web Services...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Webcast, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight 2, SOAP, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-06-23

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter searchagreei have to agree Vista search is excellent and extremely fast. I have been using version 3 and up on my XP machine at work and it always trumps other search indexers like Google Desktop. This is one example of MS doing a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Backups, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista, smarter search, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5, Microsoft Windows XP, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon system

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon systemexcept those MPEG-2 still take up 2-3 times more HD space...as the MPEG-4 for the same quality... if you are actually going to take the time to rip all your DVDs... for me it was about 400 DVDs, you might at well take the time...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital video, Digital media, Media players, Digital music, quad-core, Try Super, Archos, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture

Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...

Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?SLIM works for meJoe,The added upside of SOA Lifecycle Management or just Service Lifecycle Management would be that users would focus on specific management/governance tasks during specific portions of the lifecycle. Governance is a bit of a splat term that needs...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SOA Lifecycle Management, SOA governance

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards

In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year. DeviceVM, the award-winning developer of Splashtopâ„¢, today announced the proliferation of their innovative software...

Tags: ASUS, Motherboard, Model, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-14

ActiveVOS (zip)

ActiveVOS makes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications easy. By delivering the best of open standards like the Business Process Execution Language BPEL, BPEL4People and WS-Human Task in a comprehensive, all-in-one environment, developers working in a services-oriented architecture environment can deliver applications flexibly, freeing their processes...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Active Endpoints, ActiveVOS, ActiveVOS 5.01, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-12

MyData-Live Pro (exe)

MyData-Live Pro is an Amazon WS powered information snapshot service. Media tools include Itunes/WMP playlist files, audio CD ripping, FLAC/WAVPACK compression, Unlimited voice recording, and Screenshot image capture. Web tools support direct upload of files from any Web page to MDL Web account in direct2web mode, and receiving streams from...

Tags: Snapshot, MyData-Live Pro, Web Servers, Productivity, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-29

RPG, PHP, and history

RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what’s the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Databases, RPG, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

'WOA: the SOA that works'

"WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...

Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Kim (exe)

Fast, ebook access to the kewl.ws im - kim. Kim is a free Web based instant messenger not only featuring pm and multi user chat, but also includes radio, tv, dating, pet care and games, not to mention a fantastic search facility and even income opportunities built in. This version...

Tags: Income, Kewlworkz, Kim, Operational Accounting, E-books, Instant Messaging, Finance, Personal Technology, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-04-24