The new XML/HTTP Spring gets REST, as does Windows Live. And in case you’re wondering, no worries: no hypermedia was harmed in the making of Microsoft’s RESTful API. By the looks of it, REST is the new XML/HTTP.
The race to complicate. If you care to know what I think of the new JavaEMCAScript, just ask Douglas Crockford:
Complexity in a language does not necessarily reduce the complexity of programs. I think the opposite may be truer.
Well said.
Waste not, want not. Waste Management suing SAP over the cost of licensing hype. I wonder if we’re going to see more law suits like that in coming years?
It’s part and parcel with the 6 month, business class and golf course, sales cycle, which works at a higher level abstraction than implementation details. There’s an alternative. Software that sells itself, like open source and SaaS, and a sales model that builds on customer experience and references (did someone say blogs?)
Would you trust RAM? RAM disk in kernel, backed to disk. The data gets mirrored to disk, eventually, so the entire setup is optimized for I/O performance, at the expense of reliability. There’s only one problem: “You just need to believe in your battery, Linux and the hardware it runs on. Which of these do you mistrust?” I don’t trust Linux, the hardware, or the battery. And all three earned that mistrust. Still, if I had the option I could think of a few uses that don’t need an always spinning hard disk (real or metaphorical).
Don’t means don’t. For some reasons I always thought @donotreply.com is a magical domain, much like example.com. Turns out, I’m not the only one who got it wrong. Next week, reasons #42 why I shouldn’t be administrating your server.
Above, it will probably take a few more attempts before Lynx passes the Acid3 test.