SOAP vs. REST in the Real World

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There’s a lot of focus these days on SOAP vs REST and the proliferation of WS-* specifications. Sometimes you wonder if WS-* solves problems that aren’t all that common or have already been solved.

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Comment Spam

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Spam Adam tells me he doesn’t support comments nor the CommentAPI because he doesn’t want to deal with comment spam. So the day after admonishing him for being anti-social, I get hit by a slew of comment spam pointing to porn sites and selling Ginzu knifes. Did you know those things can cut right through a can?

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Why Not Convert HTML to XML?

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Pat Gannon (no blog) makes a great point in the comments on my post about using regular expressions to parse HTML. He says:

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Using a Regular Expression to Match HTML

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I just love regular expressions. I mean look at the sample below.

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Bloglines subscription

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Weird. I did a google search for an entry in my blog and one of the results was a bloglines account that had my blog subscribed. I was basically seeing all the blogs that some bloglines user was subscribed to. Is that a feature of bloglines to expose your subscriptions like that? Or is that a privacy flaw?

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Dare Makes a Move to be More Social

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Dare Obasanjo, the project lead on the RSS Bandit project (of which I contribute) is leaving his post as a Program Manager on the XML team at Microsoft to work as a Program Manager on the MSN Communication Services Platform team.

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Partisan Bush Joke: Intelligence Riddle

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Since I like to stoke the fire of partisanship… This joke was sent to me by my friend Walter.

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Whidbey Update

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Scott Guthrie has returned to blogging with a tremendous piece on his team’s effort towards reaching “ZBB” or Zero Bug Bounce.

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VIDEO: Funniest DUI ever.

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Just watch the whole thing. It’s not that long and you won’t be sorry. VIDEO

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Row based testing in MbUnit (i.e. RowTest)

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Jonathan de Halleux, aka Peli, never ceases to impress me with his innovations within MbUnit. In case you’re not familiar with MbUnit, it’s a unit testing framework similar to NUnit.

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It's no iPod, but it is 100GB

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Xclef Saw this on Gizmodo. It’s bigger and not as nice looking as an iPod, but it is 100 GB.

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FUNNY: Alternate word meanings...

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My friend Michael who lives in London for now sent me this.

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Workspace Pictures: Work and Home Offices

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I know a lot of people like to post picturesof their workspace online. Not sure why (vanity!), but they just do. So I thought I’d jump on that bandwagon and do the same.

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Free Idea For Google Desktop

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Allow users to configure Google Desktop to search their GMail accounts. Most of my personal email isn’t going to be in Outlook. It’ll be in my web-based accounts.

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Evaluating Free Desktop Search Options: Copernic

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Copernic LogoAfter reading the reaction around the net about Google Desktop (GD for short), one common complaint I noticed is the use of a web browser for local searching. Why use a web browser to search locally and forego all the utility and benefits a rich client can provide?

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What Is That Liquid Falling From The Sky?

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A strange phenomena occurred last night and into this morning here in Los Angeles. I kid you not, but water… fell from the SKY!

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TDD Is Great...Except When It Isn't

Saw this post by Craig Andera about Test Driven Development and I have to say I completely agree with him.

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Work-life balance

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Read this article at FastCompany pointed to by Steve Maine and maybe I’m lazy, but I totally disagree.

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Hilarity: Bible Study With Bush

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Bush PraysSaw this going around the web. Classic!

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Bush Not Concerned About Osama

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Time to get political. I loved how Kerry caught Bush off-guard when he pointed out that in 2002, Bush said he wasn’t concerned with Osama. Realize this is at the same time our troops were in Afghanistan looking for the bastard. I think that beats the out of context “nuisance” quote by a mile, because even in context, Bush’s quote is damning.

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