Thursday, May 16, 2002

David Watson. Looks like Sam Ruby is using CocoBlog.  Sorry to disappoint, but CocoBlog is still on my todo list.  Hopefully I'll work down my backlog once I return home.  However, I also feel that I should say that my current intention is to play with blosxom first. [Sam Ruby] 5:15:46 PM

Web services and the web ecosystem. Adam Bosworth gave a whirlwind tour of BEA's WebLogic Workshop. After the obligatory Hello World, he dived into the good stuff. Cajun (I'll still call it that, for brevity) takes the web services mantra of loose coupling very seriously. It separates interfaces from implementations by generating XML grammars, called maps. In a nutshell, your map abstracts away from member variables in implementation code. An element in the map, say , is not sensitive to changes in the names of underlying member variable names. This contrasts with most SOAP toolkits which generate interfaces based on those names -- interfaces that break when the names change. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:54:47 PM

Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] if you've read his book and his subsequent articles, there isn't much that's new in here. however, the distillation is getting tighter -- rules of innovation. There is still something missing: what makes an innovation go from interesting curiousity to something everyone's got to have? maybe that all just comes down to careful marketing, communications, and sales. 3:33:24 PM

Salon.  Arianna Huffington.  An article on the mega-trend of companies moving off-shore to avoid taxes.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:45:09 AM

Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors. Sticky problem for biometrics firms [The Register] 7:45:06 AM