There will be a slight delay in getting the RESTful design project off the ground. We are experiencing some run-up to 1.0 madness. Real blogging to commence shortly. I promise. Honest.
My last post was twelve months ago today. And since then I have never worked harder nor have had more fun doing so than I have in helping to create TriSano. Today is also auspicious in that we will cut 1.0 RC2 in a few hours. All in all, it seems like [...]
A few weeks ago I finished Seth Lloyd’s book Programming the Universe, which argues that the universe is one big quantum computer. Here is an especially apt paragraph:
… complexity is a key issue in engineering. How can we engineer complex systems that are still robust in their behavior? The maxim we teach [...]
A little clarity around my previous post of transport-level security and message-level security.
I’ll first note that neither security approach is bound to the REST or SOAP style of component interaction. There is nothing in REST that mandates transport-level security or precludes message-level security. The same is true of SOAP. That said, secure [...]
Over in the comments for Tim Bray’s “S for Simple” post and again over on his personal blog, Gunnar Peterson claims that the standard REST security approach is inadequate and that something like WS-Security is required for any truly secure architecture. Gunnar has a shoot-from-the-hip tone, but we’ve communicated briefly via email and he states [...]
Wasn’t planning on posting again today, but this is beyond funny (to geeks).
Update: And this too. Move over Google, it’s time to ask Ms. Dewey.
Leonard is looking for a formal definition of SOA. My colleague, Anne Thomas Manes, is a thought leader on this subject, and Burton Group clients and the industry as a whole tend to line up behind her definitions. I’ll share them here:
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a software design discipline in which application and infrastructure [...]
It’s time to reawaken this blog, and the current POX/REST/SOAP thing is as good a reason as any. Everyone has something good to say, and I have comments for everybody.
Leonard Richardson kicked it off while ruminating about the forthcoming book on REST that he’s writing in collaboration with Sam Ruby. In [...]
Somebody out there recently sent me an email regarding the Postfix+Dovecot+etc. HOWTO. Unfortunately, it seems that I’ve accidententally deleted your message. To give you a clue as to whether it’s you or not, you mentioned Phamm as an alternative to Jamm. I remember that you also had some other insights to share, [...]
My PowerBook came back from Apple on Friday (I had put it in the mail on Monday, so not bad), and I’ve been trying to make it mine again since opening the box on Saturday.
The machine came back fixed. One of the problems it had (has), was that the battery would go from full [...]