Johannes Ernst on February 19th, 2005

REST (for REpresentational State Transfer) is one of those acronyms that is thrown around in tech circles fairly often these days. I suspect, people bring it up as an antidote to SOAP and WS-* that are growing ever more complex, just like the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP) stack is somewhat of a rebellion [...]

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Johannes Ernst on February 15th, 2005

Right here as one of the speakers at PC Forum 2005. Thanks Esther and Rafe!

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Johannes Ernst on February 11th, 2005

Today I received confirmation that I will be one of the speakers at Esther Dyson‘s PCForum 2005, which is probably the oldest and one of the most influential technology conferences there is. It’s going to be a quite distinguished roster of speakers, but I don’t want to talk about it here as Esther has not [...]

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Johannes Ernst on February 7th, 2005

This is a "great" one. Apparently, there are so many Unicode characters that look just other Unicode characters but have a different code. Tailor-made for an identity attack. Try it out at this spoof Paypal site, it’s indistinguisable from the original! A great illustration of why Kim’s 6th Law is an important idea, but extremely [...]

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