http://atownley.org Andrew's way of looking at the world Thu, 15 May 2008 16:45:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been meaning to write this post for a few weeks now, but I've just been too busy. Now that I'm finally starting to get a bit more caught up (and after I thought about it again today when using Windows XP on VMWare to access ROS) I figured ... http://atownley.org/2008/05/ros-kos-64-bit-linux/ The question regarding "meaningful" or "human friendly" URIs comes up a lot if you're trying to design a Website or Web-accessible information architecture (including a Web service). This subject came up again recently on the SOA mailing list (I didn't see the beginning of the thread, but this is ... http://atownley.org/2008/04/uri-opacity-revisited/ No, I'm not dead, and no, this blog isn't abandoned—more like neglected... Hard to believe that I haven't posted anything since Feb '07. I've a few draft posts that I'd written last year that I may or may not finish and post at some stage, but there are a ... http://atownley.org/2008/04/facelift/ Needless to say that the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 has been a little hectic. Most sane people wouldn't try to move house, start a company and have a baby all at the same time, but nobody in this household ever made many claims to sanity. ... http://atownley.org/2007/02/catching-a-breath/ Updated 2007-24-05: After trying to do this again, I realized that I left out some pretty crucial stuff that cost me about 30 min to try and find again when I was setting up a new machine. Apologies for this. -- ast I finally completed the convoluted identity proofing ... http://atownley.org/2007/01/ros-vs-linux-making-it-work/ After keeping us in suspense since 3 AM Saturday morning, Alexandre Ralph Townley finally made his appearance in the world at 7:15 PM. He weighed ~7.5 lbs (3.5 kg) and was 19.7 inches (50 cm) long. All of us are tired, but doing very well. We would like to ... http://atownley.org/2007/01/alexandre-ralph-townley/ While I was going through some news articles about the latest ramifications of security breaches for identity theft (and waiting impatiently for Firefox to render the undulating, add-ridden, non-printer-friendly website page from a major publisher), I actually read one of the banner adds: Use WebEx for remote support. I used ... http://atownley.org/2006/12/remote-support-with-webex/ Watch it. Think about it. Don't let it happen to us. http://atownley.org/2006/12/v-for-vendetta/ Even though I had to temporarily drop out of the ongoing discussion on the service-orientated-architecture Yahoo group/mailing list, which prompted my last post, to focus on a few high-priority interrupts for a while, my brain hasn't fully disengaged from the discussion. One of the light bulbs that went off in my ... http://atownley.org/2006/12/is-rest-api-an-oxymoron/ I can appreciate Gervas' position as a "neutral, non-technical observer" to the whole ROA/SOA thread, but I think the root of the problems in bright people having difficulty clarifying basic issues about REST is entirely one of "what they know" and "where they are coming from". I have tremendous respect for ... http://atownley.org/2006/12/socio-political-and-commercial-motivations-for-ws/