Sweet Sweep...Lakers Threepeat
Once again, Lakers are the Champions.
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Atlast I know what REST stands for. Now to the next part, why so much excitement and confusion over it.
Check out Paul Prescod's (the man in the midst of most of the conversations centering on REST) home page for more details on REST.
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Defining Web Services using WSDL
Yeah, that's the title of our first article. The article provides the anatomy of a WSDL document and closely examines the components of WSDL with the help of a sample web service written using SOAP Toolkit 2.0 and Visual Basic 6. Go, Check it out and let us know what you think of it.
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Gartner believes that Web services will drive most of the innovation and new thinking in application development and deployment through 2007. Gartner is taking a very closer look at Web Services. Check out the latest spotlight on Web Services.
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Microsoft today announced TrustBridge, a new technology that will allow different organizations using the Windows operating system to exchange user identities and interoperate in heterogeneous environments using industry-standard XML Web services protocols including Kerberos, WS-Security and forthcoming protocols in the WS-Security family. Well, This was coming for some time after the industry wide push to secure Web Services gained momentum.
Update: Find out more about the Windows "TrustBridge" technology and how Microsoft will support federation via WS-Security in a variety of products.
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Mozilla 1.0 released. Finally !!
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"CSS is the promising young recruit who hasn't realized his full potential.".- We agree. A nice article which demystifies CSS and sorts out realities and also gives futuristic view for each CSS promise discussed.
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Read The F***ing Story, Then RTFM - Cultural differences and perspectives when reading the Manuals. Guess, You can make use of this article if you are internationalizing your application and are targeting different cultures around the world.
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RSS For Non-Techie Librarians - Well, We are not Librarians and we consider ourselves techie, but still this article is cool and introduces you to RSS(Rich Site Summary) and the tools and resources available to enjoy RSS feeds. We have been wanting to provide RSS feed of WebJives.com for some time now. Looks like another future project !!
And Yes, We like and use NewzCrawler too.
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The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but it is improving, according to a new study by Web site usability expert Jakob Nielsen. 
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This morning I examined the website logs and found out that the site is getting quite some hits from Brainstorms and Raves website. Well, we found out, Shirley Kaiser, website owner and author of brainstormsandraves.com has mentioned our website in her blog (Friday Feast # 11). Thanks Shirley for the kind words.
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XML Namespaces and How They Affect XPath and XSLT
Good article demystifying Namespaces and use of Namespaces in DOM, XPath and XSLT.
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Lakers still rule the West
Mike Bibby and the Kings were almost there but in the end the pressure was too much for Kings to handle. Lakers are in NBA Finals (third time in a row). It was a great game, evenly contested which kept us to the edge of our seats all the time in the fourth quarter and then in the overtime.
Mike Bibby gave another great performance and established himself as a star along with Kobe, Shaq, Jason Kidd et al.
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The companion web site of Eric Meyer on CSS is up and running. From what I have heard and read, this book will be very different then the present books on CSS and will contain projects with lots of examples.
While I am here, Eric Costello et al are also out with their new book, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation. Check it out.
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Web services are for business intelligence, too. The second part of this article talks about the SOAPification of business intelligence(BI).
