All talk. I won’t name any names, but some people claim REST is all talk. Hype. Buzz. Theories. This picture is for them. In this week’s webservices.org weekly, REST takes over the content, but the advertising is still exclusively SOAP and Enterprise Silver Bullets.
The Department of the Patently Obvious. Today’s DoPO bulletin brings not one, but two(!) items:
While technology and the setting of policies often are cited as critical to SOA governance, an HP official Thursday emphasized another key factor: Having the right personnel.
And:
The biggest challenge with SOA is around politics and control.
Be careful out there. Today’s Web 2.0 spammer: Shelfari. Another Web 2.0 social-something-something site with so little confidence in their own stuff, they need to spam the world about it. Sad, because it does look nice and useful. I guess it’s part of the growing corps of if you build it, they will buy you sites that need to expand at whatever cost. First, they ask you to join, then they expect you to send apology e-mails to everyone in your address book.
Avoid.
Staple. Scott Watermasysk’s 7 of the Hardest Things I Learned About Writing Software is worth stapling on your cubicle wall:
Realize that to more than 99.9% of the worlds population, code/technology are simply a means to an end. Software solves problems. The world really doesn’t care how or why it works.
Re-discovered. Pandora. Now that I can run it inside Prism without fear of crashing Firefox, it just plays and plays and plays.
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