December 2006 - Don Box's Spoutlet

Don Box's Spoutlet

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  • Fourth Annual Chris and Don Holiday Show - With Lyrics!

    The video is now up ( http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=268480 ) and in case you can't understand the lyrics, here goes: Vista, we shipped it, Vista, we shipped it, Vista, we shipped it, Better late than not. Vista, you'll love it, Vista,...
  • Fourth Annual Chris and Don Holiday Special

    We had a power issue in Seattle last week, so this year's show got delayed. That stated, it looks like the Channel9 folks have pulled out all the stops and are getting our show up tonight. Unfortunately, I got a bad case of food poisoning and don't think...
  • Dare and Tim and RelaxNG

    Dare has an interesting reaction to Tim's “RelaxNG won because Elliot noticed” missive from last month. First, to Tim, I don't see what the milestone is. XSD does in fact have a lot of suckage and a lot of us have been actively trying to deal...
  • Remember the Bad Old Days

    The EvilAPI made me remember one of the earliest mashups that was inspirational for many of us who were trying to put XML on the web. Philip Greenspun's Bill Gates Wealth Clock was a great demonstration of the power of LoREST and text-based formats (albiet...
  • Money Makes the World Go 'Round

    OK, I'm too much of a bit head. My original analysis of Google moving from a protocol head to a Javascript library interface was focused on the bits. That analysis holds up, but as many people have pointed out to me, it's largely immaterial. Google is...
  • EvilAPI

    You have to love the web. Within a couple of days of Google announcing the move from web services to Javascript libraries for search, someone has already written a wire-compatible version of the old SOAP API that is implemented in terms of screen scraping...
  • Irony and Google Search API

    Am I the only one who finds it just a bit ironic that the man that attempted to get Microsoft to build the first protocol-based mega-service (Hailstorm) is the one who announced the move away from protocol-based access to Google Search ? I still think...
  • Google Search API?

    Several people have forwarded me pointers to Google's move from a SOAP-based access mechanism for search to an AJAX-based one. The O'Reilly coverage starts to detail what's going on, but I think there's more here than meets the eye. I spent a few minutes...