One of my pet-peeves … fortunately the SOAP vs. REST debates are largely over, with SOAP fading into the history books. But REST is still misunderstood, and sadly so. Steve Klabnik has the latest great REST explanation. Coincidentally we implemented some ideas in InfoGrid for what he says is missing in REST, such as content [...]
Wasted two hours today attempting to HTTP POST some content with a client certificate using curl on OSX Snow Leopard. It somehow would not show its cert to the Apache server. In an act of desparation, I tried the exact same command with the exact same client certificate on Linux, and it worked. So I [...]
Mind you, the NoSQL community still has a lot of work to do, years and years of work, InfoGrid and many other NoSQL technologies non-withstanding. But I remember that when I first heard about what SQL is and what it does (particularly, what it can’t do), I thought: “this can’t be true. How many billions [...]
What’s the next decade going to be like in technology? I found myself pondering this a lot recently. It seems we are in for very revolutionary changes … like the becoming irrelevance of the PC. Or the move to NoSQL. Or all web apps being connected to each other, with RSS/Atom and OpenID being the [...]
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Johannes Ernst on December 18th, 2009
It was at the end of 2004 when I decided to start telling the world about this silly little idea I had had about a year before: give every person on the internet a URL that they could use to identify themselves to any website. Fully decentralized, no permission needed from anybody, under control of [...]
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