30 Apr 2002
Tue, 30 Apr 2002
Sam Ruby - another great article
Sam Ruby says, "Since the REST gods have yet to smite me, I figured I would tempt fate with a little essay: Google's Genius."
[Sam Ruby]
I'm not sure what the folks like Sam on the inside of the SOAP/REST debate think of my assertion that SOAP can participate in HTTP GET transactions just as readily as any other architecture. I understand that it's not part of the spec, so people may ignore it for that reason. Still, it's a useful idiom.
Posted at: 23:32 | permalink
Goodbye April, Hello May
I'm finishing out the month tonight with over 5000 visitors for the month of April. I'd like to give a big thank you to everyone that helped make this possible including the folks at google, Dave Winer, Sam Ruby, Ugo Cei, Mark Pilgrim, Chris Wenham, LM Orchard, Joe Gregorio, Jeff Zapotoczny, and Bryan Mills. Let's hope May brings even bigger and better developments!
Posted at: 23:22 | permalink
JBoss 3.0 - smokin' in the boys room!
I managed to get jboss 3.0 RC1 installed with JDK 1.4 on mandrake linux 8.2 tonight. JBoss 3.0 smokes. These guys are absolutely going to kill BEA. If I worked at BEA right now, I'd be looking for a job. Outside of linux, it's the most impressive piece of opensource I've seen to date. Install and config are smooth. That bodes well for the future of J2EE development. Cool. Now, I've got my stable platform in place to start doing my web services behind my swing client. Public release to follow soon thereafter.
Posted at: 23:17 | permalink
Back on postfix again
After spending a couple of months testing CommuniGate Pro, I am happy to report that I've got my mail server back on postfix again. Communigate's a great product but I couldn't justify the cost for a little one man show like this. Besides, I like the fact that postfix with IMAP is so lightweight and quick. My friends will all be thrilled not to have to suffer through the header messages that the Communigate trial was putting on all my inbound and outbound mail. I'm glad to see them go too.
Posted at: 21:06 | permalink
Ad hominem usage panel questioned
Bob Phillips asks, "who's the usage panel" that decided how ad hominem should be used?
Posted at: 20:43 | permalink
Userland has worms
Disinfotainment has some interesting commentary on Userland's approach to public relations (PR). I don't want to make matters worse by spreading any misinformation. However, I believe that Userland would be better served by:
- being upfront about admitting it's problems
- apologizing to customers
- putting all their effort into fixing them and insuring that they don't happen again
Two final comments:
- I have used google since they had a publicly available server (was that 1998?). I have had my default page in the browser on every machine that I use set to google since around that time. I have never accessed google and gotten a 404 or any other error. Now that defines professionalism.
- Is it revealing to make a comparison between Userland's approach to the criticism directed at it in the last few days and Microsoft's approach to the antitrust trial? I think so.
Finally, the latest worm announcement seems interesting for the following reason:
Though this worm is just now getting attention in the media, we have had the patches available for our customers on our website and through Red Hat Network since September 2000. Customers who have kept their systems up to date are not impacted.
No backup server? Yikes. Full disclosure: I am a paying Userland customer.
Posted at: 12:36 | permalink
Isn't slashdot divine?
It's no small irony to me that Flip Filipowski's company, Divine, got slashdotted today. And then their webserver fell over only 15 minutes into it. I looked at the load size for http://www.divine.com/ yesterday. It's over 600KB! I used to work for Flip's previous company, Platinum Technology. It seems the strategy here is merely to do this as a means to thin out the employee pool without having to do it the hard way. This probably has less detrimental impact on morale than a layoff would. I predict this is only the first futile move on the road to another acquisition by Computer Associates (CA) or the like. I've been through that twice. Run for the hills.
Posted at: 10:14 | permalink
Big problems in userland
I couldn't get to subhonker6 again this morning, it was dead yesterday morning, and half the weekend. I'm gonna look at movable type soon too. Despite Dave Winer's assertions that you can host the site without Userland's server, and the fact that I'm doing exactly that, my page still hits subhonker6, I assume because of the static sites image.
I'm beginning to agree with a lot of the folks making noise about the bugs in Userland's stuff, Radio in particular. I notice that the discussion group at radio.userland.com now has quite a few entries that have several reads but no replies. When people come to realize that the product is not well-documented, they, like me, resort to the discusion group. Unfortunately, at least one of them has had to resort to changing his posts to something ridiculous like this. I haven't resorted to that yet but I can't blame the guy, he's getting responses. My post, however, goes unanswered.
Userland's approach of not documenting the more complex parts of the product because they're afraid some newbie will hurt themselves leaves a lot to be desired, IMHO. It's obvious that the audience for the product is a lot broader than that now. I appreciate Dave Winer's creativity and forward-vision; however, the day to day running of the company is probably better left to a bean-counting-organizational-control-freak.
Posted at: 06:26 | permalink
