Occasional Thoughts

When you are interested about client server architectures via HTTP people you surely know the traditional way of using Web Services via SOAP. But I bet you have already heard about REST. In case you have some open questions about the later I can recommend the following articles that have been written by Stefan Tilkov for InfoQ.

Start with A Brief Introduction to REST. That gives you a little bit more than just the basic insight. As every REST introduction however this may leave some questions open. This is where his next article fills the gap: Addressing Doubts about REST

These guys must be absolutely crazy!

Good: The Linux client is pretty stable. I had no problems as longs as I was in SL. Some months ago I had more problems on Windows.

Bad: Still I wasn't able to find anything interesting.

Good: While I continued working on Jaclin, my avatar painted a image and earned his first L$.

If you would like to meet me, search for a manga like looking Avatar called Yaba Susanti. With a lot of luck, I may be online

All these links are pointing to the old WordPress blog, which I have obsoleted, since I got tired of the steady security fixes containing critical fixes that are obviously due to insecure coding styles (notorious SQL injection flaws says it all). Therefore I switched to Serendipity and haven't regret that. While Wordpress had numerous of security updates in the meantime, Serendipity had just one - containing a minor security flaw in a module that I do not use.

Serendipity was able to import all postings from the old WordPress blog, however links to other postings or links to images were still pointing to the old pages. So I kept the old blog running. But WordPress still suffers from more and more security flaws - that's why Google showed the warning. As far as I can judge there was no real harm, but I also do not want to keep the old blog updating.

Are you interested on ESBs? Do you think an ESB is the holy grail to your integration problems? Then this presention by Jim Webber is a must see: InfoQ: Jim Webber on "Guerilla SOA".

He talks about the reality of ESBs and demystifies the hype in a great entertaining presentation