Programmable Web is one year old. And what an amazing year! Here are some stats from the blog: 320 blog posts 262 APIs 942 mashups Wish them great success. Hope they grow exponentially in the coming years.
Programmable Web is one year old. And what an amazing year! Here are some stats from the blog: 320 blog posts 262 APIs 942 mashups Wish them great success. Hope they grow exponentially in the coming years.
When I Googled Wiki, I got more than 412 million hits. While Wikis have been around for more than 10 years, their visibility has increased only in the last few years – mostly thanks to Wikipedia. So where do wikis…
What an interesting concept! From Thinking Beyond Web 2.0: Social Computing and the Internet Singularity. Quoting a quote from Dion’s blog: “The idea that a deeper and tighter coupling between the online and offline worlds will accelerate science, business, society,…
Yahoo about Hack Day. We have no idea what’s going to happen at Hack Day. We never do. We’re pretty sure we’ll be amazed. We’re still working out the final details, but we’ll be posting more here soon. If you’re…
While my feeling for Python is not exactly love, it is pretty close. I am not a professional developer. So I dabble in Python a lot. It allows me to do a few nifty things with very little learning. And…
How do you build a product like Flickr or LiveJournal? What are the issues of scalability? Where do you start? How do you learn to scale? This was the theme of the talk at the SDForum event on Software Architecture…
How about using a Wiki as a way to persist your useful maill?I used to use Microsoft Outlook as my mail client but now mostly use Gmail. Most of the mail I receive can be classified into one of the…
I read the early specifications of ws-policy, almost two years ago and was pretty impressed. I felt it could be abstracted for reuse in other places (not just web-services) as well. Toufic Boubez talks about WS-Policy in this interview on…
In the last couple of years, we have heard more and more about mult-core processors. AMD, Intel, IBM and Sun are the more visible ones. You can get a more comprehensive list of vendors here. However, the software tools for…
Is it better to build a powerful, flexible product with lots of capability? Or is it better to build a simple product which can be used to its fullest potential by most of your users? This is a tough decision.…
