Monthly Archives: April 2006

WS-* vs the REST

This is probably one of the most debated topics in the industry today. Thanks to Tim Anderson for bringing us the debate from MixO6. I have mixed elements of this debate with a couple of quotes from Jon Udell and

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Advice To Programmers

This is actually a post by Joel on advice to Computer Science College Students. But I did not read this when I was going to college. I think if you are a programmer and have not done some of these

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Mathematical Experience

We often hear that Mathematics consists mainly in "proving theorems". Is a writer's job mainly in writing sentences? A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of

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Trying to Understand the Essence of Education

Shuttleworth Foundation is trying to acclerate global innovation. Stumbled upon this very valuable site tracking some blogs on Python (programming language). Reading the goals and comments by the participants is very educational. Wonder what we, as bloggers, can do about

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Blogosphere – An Update

Amazing. You can find the original post here. Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a

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Google Calendar Firefox Extension

In my post on Google Calendar, I was hoping for a similar facility as a browser extension. Imagine the Calendar component in the side bar of a Firefox browser and the pattern detection capability a feature of Google Toolbar. I

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XML Toolkit for Government

Government is one of the big users of XML. In fact, a site devoted to XML in Government has useful information on the adoption of XML in government, communities of practice and lessons learned. Another effort, from NY State is

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AJAX will Drive XML Traffic

According to a blog in ZDNet, XML traffic will multiply. I am not sure how they got the numbers but even if does 100 or 1000 times, it is significant. Most of the XML generated will be transparent to the

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WordPress – One of the Coolest Products

I love WordPress. It is not just a cool tool for blogging. From day one, I have noticed their constant effort to improve, makes changes (undo some changes if necessary), listen to feedback and act pretty fast on bug reports.

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Google Calendar – Beginning of a Trend?

Google just announced Google Calendar. I played around with it a bit. Pretty clean UI and very fast. Will get to it soon. More details in this review from TechCrunch. Many features make this calendar product stand out: Public Calendar

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