Microsoft today announced their “Open Specifications Promise“, essentially a non-assertion covenant for a huge chunk of WS-* protocols. This OSP means (as fas as I can tell – and I am NOT a lawyer ;-)) that people can start implementing…
Author: Gerald Beuchelt
Thanks to the folks at blogs.sun.com, crossposting works for me (again). THe issue was that in the new 3.0 Roller deployment, all XMLRPC traffic was redirected to an HTTPS endpoint – which makes a lot of sense, but caused my…
Tom Clark brought a very interesting article on patents to my attention: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2013011,00.asp This is really not to single out Microsoft – everybody in the technology field(s) is doing this kind of thing right now. But it is plain wrong:…
Here is a very nice introduction to ontologies within the context of the semantic web and – in particular – OWL: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/ISWC2003/Tutorial/ Semantic Web Ontology OWL
Here is a suggestion for the dasBlog folks: After our corporate blog host (http://blogs.sun.com/) was upgraded to Roller 3.0 (which – by the way – has a couple of really nice improvements), my cross-poring would no longer work. Since this…
Well, I finally bit the bullet and decided to update my production blog engine to the latest build. This will be a new adventure, since I am now really on some ‘terra incognita’: I am running on a beta platform,…
Since I was recently going through my inventory of Javascript components to update a web site, I decided to link a few of the nicer ones here. They are not as integrated as the GWT or Microsoft Atlas, but –…
Here are the architectural overview pages for Project Higgins and Project Bandit: Higgins Overview: http://spwiki.editme.com/HigginsIntroduction Presentation: http://spwiki.editme.com/HigginsOverview2 Bandit Architecture: http://www.bandit-project.org/index.php/Architecture_and_Design Roadmap: http://www.bandit-project.org/index.php/Roadmap Higgins Project Bandit Project Higgins Identity
Here is a little article on Persistent AJaX (P-AJaX) I will be publishing: — Persistent AJaX Applications using Asynchronous JavaScript There are a growing number of applications that use Asynchronous JavaScript with the XMLHttpRequest object to dynamically update the contents…
Here is a nice AJaX pattern: In most samples that I have seen so far, a global XMLHttpRequest variable is declared, since you cannot pass variables to the action handler. In this article, they show a nice pattern, where you…