Norman Walsh gives up ‘wrestling his way through the arcana of WSDL’. He describes his frustrations with WSDL complexities and the difficulty of getting things done.
He goes on:
Now suppose the implementation of great_circle_distance was a web service. It could be a straight-forward REST web service or it could be some sort of RPC or it [...]
We’ve been spending time recently looking at property in the North West. I found myself often cutting and pasting a property’s postcode from the property particulars page into Multimap to see exactly where it was.
I’d been meaning to get around to making that easier when I saw Erik Benson point at FlickReplacr, a cool bookmarklet [...]
If you subscribed to my weblog via RSS and read it solely in RSS readers, you might have wondered what had happened recently when the RSS feeds disappeared. Well, it’s moved. I’m having a fresh start, with different blog software, with slightly different URLs. You can find this weblog now at http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog, and the (single, [...]
I had a nice conversation with Ralph Meijer this afternoon; he had grabbed a very old program that I’d written — sjabber, a console-based Jabber groupchat client — because he’d been having some issues with his current client.
As Ralph explained in his blog just now, it only took a single-line modification to get it up [...]
Working, as I do, on large (SAP-based) projects, I get my fair share of ridiculous and badly-thought-out requirements. So it was nice to see this in the design goals list for julie, an MP3 and OGG jukebox:
Simplicity: julie should be easy to use when you’re drunk.
How … refreshing.
After setting up this blog, it was only natural to bring across my earlier blog posts that were previously served with Blosxom. (I haven’t fallen out with Blosxom, I just wanted a change of scenery and a fresh start). Blosxom blog entries are simple .txt files where the first line is the post title and [...]
I spend a lot of time at Clapham Junction. And as much as I don’t like waiting around for trains, there definitely is something about that station that appeals.
A couple of weeks ago, Piers and I noticed some odd system messages on gnu.pipetree.com’s console. It looked like we might be under attack. Following some oddness all round, including the network interface not coming up after a reboot, we decided that the best thing to do was a fresh install of everything. So after [...]