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Thursday, May 09 2002

Kip Hampton : Multi-Interface Web Services Made Easy

"There is little doubt that the hype associated with web services has reached astronomical proportions. Notably missing from the current flood of information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts examination of how to build applications which provide both browser-based access for human users and programmatic access for automated clients. ... This is not about the relative merits or weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, or REST, nor will it attempt address the reasons why you might choose one and not another. The goal here is to demonstrate that, with a little forethought and a few Perl modules, you can easily create useful Web applications that can accessed from any or all of these types of clients."

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José Theodore : "He's probably our best player right now."

That's a good one, Josie. You just keep doing whatever it is you need to be the "second best" player, okay?

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Michel Blanchard : "[A]près le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Lafleur,

le Guy, Guy, Guy, de Guy Carbonneau, voilà le Gino, Gino, Gino de Gino Odjick."

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To my ever-lasting shame, I will admit to having read a book by Michael "rhymes with frighten" Creighton.

It was the virtual reality book; the one that got made into a movie. The only thing that's stayed with me was a passage where one character looks at another and says : "We have all this whiz-bang VR stuff and what do we do with it? We build virtual filing cabinets." Which is what I thought of when I read the following :
Why not take a web service that gives today's TV listings, for example, and combine it with a system that searches Google for details of the casts of each of the films. Then use another to order a pizza, to arrive just as the first advertising break starts? All from a few lines of simple computer code, and a bit of imagination, web services not only make this possible, they make it easy.
I'm not trying to diss Ben who by all appearances is a clever guy; nor do I disagree with the overall thrust of his article. But it says something, I think, that these are the first things we think about doing with all the cool-ness we suddenly have at our disposal. Is your life really that complete -- or empty -- that you need to worry about whether the pizza arrives during a commercial? Am I so lame that I can't figure out for myself that the milk has gone bad? And if you never leave the house anyway, who the fuck cares if your toast(er) tells you it's raining?

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The Connection : Whither the Digital Revolution?

Half an hour in to the program it could perhaps be best described as "watch as the West coast kids desperately try to revive the old-skool/new skool" thing. Which by any other name is old skool pretentiousness and tunnel-vision dressed up as happy happy joy joy. Someone please make Jaron Lanier shut the fuck up.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : clink

Noun: A clickable link. Hypertext link. Verb: The act of clicking a hypertext link.
ex. The page needs a clink to pseudodictionary. Clink to visit pseudodictionary.
see also : clink dict-ified

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : protean

Protean \Pro"te*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. `` Protean transformations.'' --Cudworth. 2. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an am[oe]ba is a protean animalcule. web1913
protean adj : taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same" wn

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