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Another political quiz, this time from a dating agency and with the X axis flipped. I’m down as a “Socialist” and as someone who exhibits “a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness”. Sadly, I seem to be less permissive than previously. My favorite one of these tests is the Political Compass
Stefan has just posted an excellent WS-Standards Poster in the form of an A0 PDF. What’s interests me most is how many of these things I can safely ignore. Trying to understand the intent, politics, ramifications and interdependencies of each and every one of these twigs is starting^W doing my head in!
Meanwhile over in planet simplification, Tim Bray continues with the “think of the trees” argument. For me using curl is an excellent way to debug apps, however there remains one fly in that ointment - security. My attempts to wget --debug the simplistic flickr services came to an abrupt stop when I hit authentication. The flickr approach whilst powerful, seems at least as complex as some of the WS-* specs, but with the benefits of the ‘uniform interface’ and reuse being quite lost. Using a bespoke library, in my case phpFlickr, rapidly became a must.
So the path to sanity for WS-* comes from profiles such as RAMP and for REST, well, some agreed up patterns of use would be nice, which is what some would argue most of these WS-* specs in-fact are.
Technorati Tags: REST, w3c, WebServices, XML
flyr gets a mention in today’s Google Maps Mania.
Technorati Tags: flickr, geotagging, googleearth, googlemaps, flyr
OK, I lied. Announcing
flyr
- search flickr
for geotagged photos
Technorati Tags: flickr, flyr, geotagging, googleearth, googlemaps
Inspired by Jonathan’s kml file production from geocaching loc files, I had a bit of fun shoving some of my geotagged photos into a kml file and flying around my recent travels in Google Earth. It’s a bit of a one-off - I knifed and forked the data using a little pipe-line hackery and a bunch of ephemeral scripts. I guess I could build a nice packed solution for this workflow and share it with you all, but not having Google Earth on my Mac does knock the shine off, just a little bit.
Technorati Tags: flickr, geotagging
