Wednesday, March 27, 2002

[Scripting News] David Stutz: An Architectural Tour of Rotor.  10:40:41 PM

[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Wall Street Embraces Linux 10:40:01 PM

"Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD Plans" [Daypop Top 40] 10:35:50 PM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] Soundbug.  Turns any flat surface into a speaker. 5:36:50 PM

Think Secret: Ximian likely to port Mono project to OS X. Following the "ten" theme, Mono 0.10 is out. [Hack the Planet] 5:02:46 PM

Overpriced but worth every penny. TechTV: Review: Apple iPod. Several corrections: iPod does not only work on the Mac. There are several options for Windows iPod users. You can use your iPod wherever you want, but you can only synchronize your iPod from one machine. However, since you can use the iPod has a regular Firewire hard drive, you can use it to ferry those MP3s from one machine to another, then synchronize from there. With a 10-hour battery life, you could walk a marathon and not miss a beat. [diveintomark] 4:59:01 PM

Java and .NET: AND not OR [Codingstyle.com] 4:55:23 PM

Rotor, the shared source CLI now is in beta.  Apparently, Peter seems mildly pleased.  The Mono folks are trying to sort out what this means to them.  As an open source developer, I'm curious as to whether or not the license restrictions on commercial use will inhibit the development of a viable community.  FYI: I participate in the development of the standards upon which rotor is based. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] 12:07:27 PM

Web Service Sublimation For the record, messages should be typed, described in XSD, and as loosely coupled as possible -- as specified in their XSD definitions.  Excelent article.  Consisely captures the history and tradeoffs. One sentence in particular captures the debate that Don Box and I started over beers last week.  If they [are] described with another technology, like Java, the promise of interoperability based on XML technologies will be lost.  Exactly.  My feeling is that a one-to-one and onto mapping of XML schema to any pre-existing language is neither possible nor desirable.  So while the approach of having metadata associated with a class definition define the serialization is effective for most situations, I still believe that .NET remoting and/or ASP.NET need to have a mechanism for allowing an individual service to augment or override this.  Simon agrees.  As we left it, Don remained unconvinced. As Tim Ewald (one of the co-authors of this XML.com article) said at last week's DevCon, everyone starts from their own language/platform and works towards the middle and hopes we'll all get to the same place.  No successful API was ever defined that way. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] 10:57:09 AM

The Next Computer Interface. The desktop metaphor was a brilliant innovation—30 years ago. Now it's an unmanageable mess, and the search is on for a better way to handle information. [Technology Review - Software] 10:43:55 AM