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Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web
Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web...
Announcing Bungee Connect
At last, I can tell you more about what Bungee Labs has been up to... We've just announced details about Bungee Connect, a 100% on-demand web development and deployment environment that will be going into Beta phase in May. Over the next three days...
7 Thoughts on the Business of API Throttling
John Musser over at ProgrammableWeb.com has summarized the various ways (he's outlined 12) API providers can control access to their web services . As John says, "There are good reasons for this ranging from preventing abuse, controlling costs...
So what do we mean by the 'Internet Cloud'?
Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics....
Scalability at Amazon (notes)
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com spoke at Supernova 2006 on the topic of Scalability at Amazon and the talk is available as a podcast at IT Conversations ( thanks to James Governor for the link ). I made some notes as I listened this morning and thought...
APIs, APIs APIs!!!!! (And Learn As You Play)
We're seeing the beginnings of something very, very big here - Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo!: "Today's news is that the Yahoo! Mail API that we previewed at last year's Open Hack Day is now available to all developers. It speaks both SOAP...
Does REST need a WSDL?
First read this (written by Marc Hadley ) "This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications...
On Web Dev Trends in 2007
Richard MacManus et al have published their web predictions for 2007 (prompting me to update the list I've been collating ). Great post and lots covered, so I'd like to comment on some of Read/Write Web's crystal ball gazing relating to web...
REST Web Services and ROA
REST Web Services , a book in progress by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby piqued my interest yesterday. From the introduction: "We want to restore the World Wide Web to its rightful place as a respected architecture for distributed programming. We...
Virtual evangelism
Amazon's web services evangelist Jeff Barr is innovating once more ... "Last night I did my second-ever Amazon Web Services presentation from within Second Life . There are some good pictures here and reviews here and here ."
Alex Barnett Podcasts
Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio...
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