{ Monthly Archives }
February 2007
Flat Batteries Included
Just as I was working around my hosting package’s lack of support for PHP SOAP, I read about the JAX-WS woes. It’s better to sell batteries separately than ship flat ones sealed in.
A Question of Politeness
I’m wondering how to best answer a serious retort from a serious person:
Do you think a Yahoo! Pipe can be exported as a BPEL workflow?
OpenID’s Trick Knee
Don’t get me wrong, I love OpenID, even now it’s famous, and use mine wherever I can and sometimes where I probably shouldn’t, but there are some risks which many don’t seem to be aware of. The first is that it doesn’t kill phishing, well not without some help from the browser. The second is like all URIs, it relies upon DNS, which is worrying not so much because the centralised registry can get hacked, but because it’s easily spoofed or poisoned. Please don’t tell me XRI is the answer, we really need a more trustworthy DNS.
Cool L10n
OK, so the UK Get a Mac ads, are fun, the Japanese versions are mmmmoé, and it is a puzzle that Apple think us Brits need localisation ahead of the French or the Spanish. But what I like best about Apple is they really understand how to write clean, cool URIs, none of that Microsoft “.aspx” cruft up or pug-ugly Amazon session specific nonsence. I assume all these people respect browser language preferences.
I seem to be in danger of becoming a Mac fan-boy. I’d better watch that.
