As has been widely blogged on by Craig Randall, Chuck Hollis, Andrew Chapman, John Newton, Ethan Gur-esh, David Nuescheler and many analysts including IDC, Burton Group, CMS Watch, 451 Group and more, EMC, IBM and Microsoft today announced that they have worked together to create a draft specification for a web services based (and I […]
I’ve read or skimmed lots of articles about Google Chrome this week, most of which focus on features – the portability of tabs, the minimalist browser panes, the speed of loading pages, … or lack thereof – synch, linux support, etc. The best post I’ve seen is The cloud’s Chrome lining written on Nicholas Carr’s […]
Another question I’ve fielded several times over the last weeks: Is there any XSD for Atom?My first response: “What are you using the schema for?” I won’t go into all of the details of that dialog, but remember that you should always carefully consider the use of a schema before building one.So to the point…The […]
There is a subtle but important difference in the use of the term “collection” in the context of resource oriented architectures and Atom standards. I’ve literally had this conversation 3 or 4 times with colleagues in the last week or two so thought it relevant to post.At the crux of the matter is the fact […]
Just this week I was talking with some colleagues about Atom and its applicability to representing content types other than blog entries and news articles and at the same time a query came over the atom syntax mailing list asking about feeds of non-blog content for use in mashups. Aside from mashups being one of […]
I got there via a rather convoluted path (that I’ll spare you), and I cannot believe that I hadn’t seen this before but Chris Jordan is truly a talent and one with a strong social conscience to boot. Wow. His current work, called Running the Numbers: an American Self-Portrait, (not yet complete) is to produce […]
…my concern is not one of features of JSON – please read on.Okay, so I’ve spent a fair part of the afternoon today surfing through dozens of articles that address JSON vs. XML. And like any other “vs.” debate, these articles express capabilities of each and there are obviously “things” that one addresses differently than […]
I finally got around to upgrading my WordPress version – if I had known that it would really be as easy as they said it would be I wouldn’t have waited this long. The upgrade was really not more than the 5 steps described here. It almost took me longer to find my DB username […]
A couple of weeks ago I attended the SOA World Conference and Expo in New York City. I gave a presentation on interoperability for content management; I’ll post on that topic again very soon, starting with my SOA World presentation but in short, it’s about standards and they need to be service oriented. More on […]
I’ve been looking at Atom a bit and just as it seems to be with many all standards, the first thing is to figure out where things are in the standardization process. I thought I had it figured out a couple of weeks ago, and started a blog post on the subject (which I never […]