Month: <span>March 2001</span>

I just fixed some SOAP interop problems, and re-ran the test matrix from last night. Here are the new results. (Note the addition of Frontier 7.0b26 to the test matrix.) [Jake’s SOAP Journal]
10:55:37 PM  

CNET Tech News: Adobe to unveil 3-D software. The desktop publishing giant’s Atmosphere lets Web designers create 3-D Web pages where visitors can interact and chat with each other in real-time.
10:53:51 PM  

NASA’s Earth Observatory: Giant Crack Spotted in Antarctic Glacier
10:51:26 PM  

I finished implementing the server-side of the XMethods interop test suite, and Frontier passed! Of course, it only proves that Frontier can interop with itself, but now people can start testing against Frontier’s SOAP-server implementation, using the same calls that the other services on the XMethods Interop Lab page use.

Here are the test results. [Jake’s SOAP Journal]
8:03:30 PM  

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of ManilaPalooza. Here are some links: Dave, Duncan, Jeff, Stewart, Susan, Wes… oh, and me.
10:46:04 PM  

I posted this earlier on Jake’s SOAP Journal: “Can we transport XML-RPC encoded data over SOAP? I think so.” Is this a Mind-Bomb? Dave thinks so.
10:31:27 PM  

The first in a continuing series: Dave’s SOAP Journal, part 1. [Scripting News]
7:32:00 PM  

The cruelty of compassionate conservatism. Bush hacks at programs to aid children, leaving the battered, the ill and the poor behind. [Salon.com]
7:31:40 PM  

Strong Quake Hits Japan, Two Dead. [NewsBlip.com]
2:53:53 AM  

Dictionary.com Word of the Day: vagary.
12:55:03 AM  

Here’s 35-minutes of Scoble and Levin, talking about why “blogging,” a new and addictive activity, might spell the end of Web publishing as we know it. [scobleizer]
10:42:11 PM  

SF Gate: Assembly begins probing natural gas price spikes. “Natural gas that sells for $5.25 elsewhere sells for nearly $30 at the California border…” (via EchoFactor)
6:59:49 PM  

Aaron: “It turns out he was just playing Y-A Rolling Stones hit, but for a few brief, terrifying moments I could swear he was playing Dirk Diggler’s Feel My Heat.” <– Click that link — really. ;->
3:19:14 PM  

Claude Bullard on Web Philosophy: “Thou shalt not deploy anything that has not been deployed before you deploy except if said deployment shall slow the deployment of the fastest among you.” [Scripting News]
1:48:24 PM  

Working on SOAP interop? The SOAP Interoperability Lab @ XMethods
1:43:58 PM  

Salon for Sale? Story Denied. The Salon rumor mill is churning again, this time about its purported willingness to weigh a takeover bid. That’s just not true, its editor says, but this is the Internet, where the truth often has nothing to do with it. By Aparna Kumar. [Wired News]
12:57:31 PM  

Motorola to Lay Off 4,000 More. The layoffs – the second round this month, for the world’s No. 2 maker of mobile phones – focus on the networks sector. [TheStandard]
12:57:19 PM  

Tito remains confident he will fly to ISS. “American millionaire Dennis Tito said Thursday he still believes Russia will include him on a crew of a Soyuz spacecraft that will fly to the International Space Station at the end of April.” [spacetoday.net]
12:57:02 PM  

CNN.com: Bush defends Russian expulsions
12:37:38 PM  

Red Hat stems Red Ink. Almost, nearly, just about breaking even [The Register]
2:59:38 AM