Jon Udell`s point: different audiences, different purposes, different ways of
being authorative on different topics: so complementary instead of competition
“The Rodney Dangerfield of Web services standards is clearly Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration. UDDI don`t get no respect. Its original
conception — a global e-marketplace for services”
“I`ll use screencast for an item that is the “home page” for a
screencast — that is, the blog entry that introduces and describes it. And
I`ll use the tag Screencasting for items that are about tools, techniques, and
the medium.”
“RSS is a big part of the story. Calendar publishers need to learn that
information made available in RSS format will flow to all the event sites as
well as to individual subscribers.”
“we briefly discuss the pioneering ideas of Augment and our efforts to
faithfully render them in XML in the OpenAugment open source project (OA)
www.openaugment.org. (03a)”
“The buzz surrounding VeriSign`s acquisition of Dave Winer`s weblogs.com
prompted me to review my understanding of the blogosphere`s notification
infrastructure — a topic I hadn`t thought much about for a while. For
example, I use Radio UserLand to publi
“objects share a common operating system process, components share a
common hosting/runtime environment, and services share nothing but a common
message format. These are complementary techniques, he wrote:”
“The hosted demo of Zimbra`s AJAX mail client, which James Governor
pointed to yesterday, is up and running today (backstory here). The skinny on
Zimbra: it was originally called Liquid Systems; Scott Dietzen went there from
BEA; it has open sourced its L
I`ve been checking out the LINQ technical preview, and it`s definitely an
eye-opener. The following snippet does a three-way join across an XML data
source and two CLR objects. The XML data source is the content of this blog. The
objects are a dictionary
“MSH is quirky, complex, delightful, and utterly addictive. You can, for
example, convert objects to and from XML so that programs that don`t natively
speak .Net can have a crack at them. There`s SQL-like sorting and grouping. You
write ad hoc extensions
” LINQ (language-integrated query), the brainchild of Turbo Pascal and C#
inventor Anders Hejlsberg, aims to make data management a first-class citizen of
the .Net environment. The Windows Workflow Foundation aims to do likewise for
workflow, but that`s a
“None of the enterprise architects we interviewed for this story has
pledged allegiance to either of these camps, though. They`re intensely pragmatic
people who will do whatever it takes to get the job done, and it`s instructive
to learn how they are — a
“The Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change, IT Conversations will
bring you audio archives of the entire Accelerating Change 2004 conference held
November 5-7, 2004. The recordings will be added to our archives over the next
few weeks and will ap
“networked collaboration as our first, last, and perhaps only line of
defense against the perils that threaten our survival. While we`re waiting
around for the singularity, learning how to collaborate at planetary scale
— as Doug Engelbart saw long ago,
via http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/09/19.html “Find out about the
general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply to all
sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called
.NET Language Integra
