Dare wrote an interesting piece on why RESTful service are much better off without an interface definition language. He is especially picking up on teve Vinoski’s IDLs vs. Human Documentation post, which emphasizes human readable documentation over IDLs. I am…
Category: General
This makes total sense – and finally Sun gets a real database. I can think of at least 10 different major software products from Sun that would benefits enomously from switching from their respective current database platform to a single…
A nasty experience, that I would like everybody to avoid if you can: A few months ago, my bank (NetBank) was acquired by a – by then to me – unknown bank called ING Direct. Having gone through this cycle…
… since I joined Sun. Actually 10 years almost to the date, so Bill presented my 10 year recognition certificate to me today. It has been a very interesting 10 years: I started out as a pre-sales systems engineer in…
Not only that a lot of people have been complaining about my funky ports, but by Internet provider also decided to start blocking the 8080 port. That’s somewhat of a problem, since without this port my blog will not work.…
So, the long family vacation has been on for over 2 weeks, and it really feels good to unwind a little. We started on Big Island, went on to Kauai (where I got – after 28 years of planning on…
Over the next few weeks blogging will be light, since I am traveling. I hope to be back to here for IIW…
Paul found an “periodic” table of data visualizations, which is quite nice in its own right (Paul: I think I have seen a knowledge map of the identity landscape some time ago). But I certainly prefer this “periodic” table of…
Sorry, due to a recent surge in Trackbacks, I have deactivated this feature for the time being. Spammers are really an annoying bunch … What made it now just unbearable is that my blog was being misused to advertise the…
Ok – I just upgraded my blog engine to the 2.0 release of dasBlog. A big “Thank you!”to the team for keeping up the great work. One thing that does seem to work again is comments – so please giv…