Upon2020 (archive)

  • Follow-up on my “more REST nouns than SOAP verbs” post

    One point in my recent REST vs. SOAP — there are more nouns than verbs! post I don’t seem to have communicated well. Let me try to augment what I said… Imagine two software systems that both process the same amount of information and generally do the same thing. The first of those systems is…

  • Great questions after my LID talk at OSCON

    I just finished my talk on LID at the O’Reilly OSCON and as I hoped, the people in the room came up with great questions on the IRC back channel Actually, they didn’t use the IRC back channel, but the discussion was good anyway. Thanks everybody for attending. The slides I used are available here.…

  • REST vs. SOAP — there are more nouns than verbs!

    Like many, I have been pondering the differences in philosophy between REST and SOAP. Other than computational effort and size of the software stack and development effort required to support them, it boils down to a "is it better to structure the world around nouns vs. around verbs" discussion. Last night suddenly an answer came…

  • VC Phishes at Movie Theater: Very Funny

    David Cowan, General Partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, and frequent investor in security technologies, blogged how he phished movie tickets from unsuspecting kids at a movie theater in order to convince his wife that lots of work remained in the security space. It’s a very funny read that also, more seriously, illustrates very well that…

  • Esther Dyson: markets are changing as the balance of power shifts from institutions to individuals

    Amen! Thanks for putting it so nicely and quotable! This is indeed one of the mega-trends of our age, and I’m really hard-pressed to still find domains where that is not true yet (speaking about the US, other countries are different). Some examples off the top of my head: News: news organizations vs. bloggers. Healthcare:…