Here is a smattering of soundbytes, links and observations I scribbled while powerless
at ETech 2005 Day 1.
Soundbytes
- Make Magazine poll of the first 4000 subscribers found the average age is 35 and the average income $108k. (Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside Talk Press Conference)
If you acquire them don't f**k them up.
(Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside press conference referring to large corporations buy innovative scrappy startups and pioneers.)- Threats to emerging technology: Government and politics impinging on technological evolution. The past always tries to kill the future." (Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside press conference)
40% of eBay listings come through the [Web Services] API
(Adam Gross - Building Applications Without Software)WS-I Basic Profile is a must read best practices document for those creating web services.
(Nelson Minar - Building A New Web Service at Google)A very important rule of REST: HTTP GET must not have side effects.
(Nelson Minar)Sending nothing is hard.
(Nelson Minar discussing web service interoperability issues.)Data bindings are the key technology for SOAP.
Its not quite there to were he'd hope it would be though. (Nelson Minar)I'm sure those updates will be finished very quickly.
(Jeff Bezos after inadvertently clicking Yes to a Windows Update completed restart? dialog box.)You petition the FCC to rollback time or al least buy it for you.
(Rael Dornfest - press conference)
Interesting Links
- Ruby on Rails
- Flickr Colr Pickr
- A9 OpenSearch (ZDnet Weblog Coverage)
- Walking Tour of New Hamsphire
- http://we-make-money-not-art.com/
- EyeToy
Quick Observations
Rick Rashid's From the Labs: Microsoft Research
presentation reminds me that Microsoft has some brilliant engineers – why some of this brilliance doesn't make it out into their products is likely an organizational issue and the crushing weight of legacy business and shear stubbornness.
Nelson Minar in his presentation notes that Flickr supports SOAP, XML-RPC and REST protocols saying I'd like to see more of that.
Curious that the AdWords API that Nelson designed doesn't take this approach. Also two points that were overlooked in his presentation.
- SOAP can be RESTful
- The Flickr
REST
API isn't its RPC using HTTP and a non-standard XML format. REST is document-centric which is on the opposite end of the spectrum from RPC.
<p>Here is a smattering of soundbytes, links and observations I scribbled while <a href="http://www.timaoutloud.org/archives/000393.html"><q>powerless</q> at ETech</a> 2005 Day 1.</p>
<h2><a id="Soundbytes"></a>Soundbytes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Make Magazine poll of the first 4000 subscribers found the average age is 35 and the average income $108k. (Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside Talk Press Conference)</li>
<li><q>If you acquire them don't f**k them up.</q> (Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside press conference referring to large corporations buy innovative scrappy startups and pioneers.)</li>
<li>Threats to emerging technology: Government and politics impinging on technological evolution. The past always tries to kill the future." (Tim O'Reilly @ Fireside press conference)</li>
<li><q>40% of eBay listings come through the [Web Services] API</q> (Adam Gross - Building Applications Without Software)</li>
<li><q>WS-I Basic Profile is a must read best practices document for those creating web services.</q> (Nelson Minar - Building A New Web Service at Google)</li>
<li><q>A very important rule of REST: HTTP GET <em><strong>must not</strong></em> have side effects.</q> (Nelson Minar)</li>
<li><q>Sending nothing is hard.</q> (Nelson Minar discussing web service interoperability issues.)</li>
<li><q>Data bindings are the key technology for SOAP.</q> Its not quite there to were he'd hope it would be though. (Nelson Minar)</li>
<li><q>I'm sure those updates will be finished very quickly.</q> (Jeff Bezos after inadvertently clicking Yes to a Windows Update completed restart? dialog box.)</li>
<li><q>You petition the FCC to rollback time or al least buy it for you.</q> (Rael Dornfest - press conference)</li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="InterestingLinks"></a>Interesting Links</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a></li>
<li><a href="http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/">Flickr Colr Pickr</a></li>
<li><a href="http://opensearch.a9.com/">A9 OpenSearch</a> (<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1149">ZDnet Weblog Coverage</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/02/25.html">Walking Tour of New Hamsphire</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://we-make-money-not-art.com/">http://we-make-money-not-art.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eyetoy.com/english/index.html">EyeToy</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="QuickObservations"></a>Quick Observations</h2>
<p>Rick Rashid's <q>From the Labs: Microsoft Research</q> presentation reminds me that Microsoft has some brilliant engineers – why some of this brilliance doesn't make it out into their products is likely an organizational issue and the crushing weight of legacy business and shear stubbornness.</p>
<p>Nelson Minar in his presentation notes that Flickr supports SOAP, XML-RPC and REST protocols saying <q>I'd like to see more of that.</q> Curious that the AdWords API that Nelson designed doesn't take this approach. Also two points that were overlooked in his presentation.</p>
<ol>
<li>SOAP can be RESTful</li>
<li>The Flickr <q>REST</q> API isn't its RPC using HTTP and a non-standard XML format. REST is document-centric which is on the opposite end of the spectrum from RPC.</li>
</ol>
