Published by Vince Kimball on 26 Jun 2001
Network World: Starbucks wireless network a sweet deal for MobileStar. The initiative is a boon to MobileStar Network, the ISP responsible for the wireless LAN connectivity in each Starbucks stores and the backbone network connecting the shops to the Internet. MobileStar expects Starbucks will account for 50% of its network footprint by 2003. [Tomalak's Realm]
Published by Vince Kimball on 26 Jun 2001
Do Java programmers really need SOAP?. Why is adopting SOAP in Java premature?
First, a simple form of Web services can already be implemented with Java Servlets. A Servlet can receive an HTTP POST with an XML document as the content and return an XML document as the response. Thus we could define a simple Web service as:
Web service = (XML input document, service name, XML output document)
Given the strong data typing of the XML schema, this simpler model can serve any purpose that SOAP RPC currently serves. If a simpler alternative exists, such as a model where the input is a single XML message and the output is a single XML message, then why use an XML instantiation of legacy RPC implementations.
Published by Vince Kimball on 23 Jun 2001
Consumer Project on Technology. The Consumer Project on Technology was started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Our work is documented extensively on the CPT web page. Currently CPT is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce (very broadly defined) and competition policy. [Privacy Digest]
Published by Vince Kimball on 23 Jun 2001
A List Apart: Much Ado About Smart Tags. By adding smart tags to web pages, Microsoft is interposing itself between authors and their audience. Microsoft told Walter Mossberg “the feature will spare users from 'under-linked' sites.” Microsoft is in effect deciding how authors should write, and how developers should build, websites. [Tomalak's Realm]
Published by Vince Kimball on 23 Jun 2001
David Winer: Here's an idea we've been incubating for six years. In Frontier, if you put a name in double-quotes that it knows, it does a replacement. This glossary is hierarchic, so it loops out levels until it hits the root, so you can over-ride global definitions locally. A one-level version of this glossary is the Manila shortcuts feature. It all happens in the CMS, on the server, not in the browser, fully under the control of the writers. Now that Microsoft has raised the issue, it makes sense perhaps to formalize a proposal for developers of CMS's to do distributed glossaries. This is something we've been working on steadily too. Our global glossary is a web app, and Radio 7.0 users automatically update Radio's glossary every night to get the latest changes, via XML of course. So we've got a working flow system already built. [Scripting News]
Published by Vince Kimball on 23 Jun 2001
David Winer: I'm working on a new thing I call #upstream.xml. It's a spec you drop in a folder that tells Radio how to route changes to the folder and its sub-folders. I've been getting ready to do this for at least a year or two. It's tricky code, I'm writing it slowly, but it's fun and it works. I've got the FTP driver running, today I'm working on the XSS driver. [Scripting News]
Published by Vince Kimball on 21 Jun 2001
Kmart and Martha's Wonderful Match. Martha Stewart wares will be available exclusively in the land of the Blue Light through 2008. [The Motley Fool]
Published by Vince Kimball on 21 Jun 2001
Nicholas Petreley: “You can't compete with Microsoft without first making a deal with Microsoft over something as basic as where your customer's data is stored and how one must access it. If that thought doesn't bother you, given Microsoft's abuse of its authority in the past, then by all means, embrace what you must view as the beneficent dictator of the future of network computing.” [Scripting News]
Published by Vince Kimball on 21 Jun 2001
ZDNet: Red Hat Tux 2.0 blows away Apache. In the case of eWeek Labs' Web server benchmark, Red Hat Inc.'s Tux 2.0 Web server running on a Linux 2.4 kernel has taken performance far beyond what was previously possible and blazes the way for future Web servers built on the same architecture.
Published by Vince Kimball on 21 Jun 2001
Some great Florida web sites:
Sunny Days Key West
Westwinds Key West
Conch Republic Seafood
Alice's Restaurant
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Truman's Little White House Historic Site
Kelly's Bar and Grille
Peppers of Key West
Tommy Bahama's Sarasota
Wet Noses Sarasota
Went to some good places that don't have web sites. Will try to say more about them soon.