ACM Queue – A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon’s CTO explains what’s behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO, on scaling up and the relationship between dev and ops. (tags: scalability amazon wernervogels) Pat Mueller: modelled serialization Pat talking about modeled serialization, as we use on Jazz. No mention [...]
ongoing · The Web’s the Place Bray on the enduring value of browser-based applications vs. ‘rich client’ applications and building on open vs. proprietary platforms (tags: web) tecosystems » Too Rich For My Taste: The RIA Q&A Steve O’Grady’s FAQ version of his views on rich Internet applications (RIAs) (tags: web ria) RESTful Web Services [...]
Bug 309368 – Change browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl default to true Since the Netscape 2 days, Netscape/Mozilla-based browsers don’t cache HTTPS resources on disk for security reasons. This bug suggests changing that default. (tags: firefox) Using Firefox 1.5 caching – Mozilla Developer Center Details on the logic of Firefox’s in-memory cache. (tags: firefox caching) About protocol links – [...]
Versioning and html[5] from Chris Wilson on 2007-04-12 (public-html@w3.org from April 2007) Chris Wilson’s email to the HTML working group explaining Microsoft’s stance towards browser standards compliance. (tags: web chriswilson microsoft html) Dijit | The Dojo Toolkit Dijit: the complete overhaul of the Dojo widget system. (tags: dojo ajax) book: Web Protocols and Practice (Krishnamurthy [...]
Evolving Java-based APIs – Eclipsepedia Jazz colleague Jim des Rivieres’ excellent analysis on how to achieve compatible evolution of Java-based APIs. Need something similar on compatible evolution of REST-based APIs. (tags: compatibleEvolution api java) IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Advanced authentication in WebSphere Application Server Deep into the realm of advanced authentication in WAS, building [...]
Apache-SSL: Certificates, Configuration and More End-to-end discussion of configuring Apache HTTP Server’s support for SSL. (tags: security apache ssl) LDAP Directives: IBM HTTP Server Configuring IBM HTTP Server (Apache++) to work with LDAP. (tags: ldap apache) The Apache Tomcat 5.5 Servlet/JSP Container – Realm Configuration HOW-TO (tags: j2ee security tomcat) JAAS LoginModule Developer’s Guide (tags: [...]
XML.com: A Theory of Compatible Versions “This article describes a set-based model for explicit extensibility and understanding extensions that maximize the versioning capabilities of any language, including languages defined by XML Schema or other XML vocabulary formalisms” (tags: compatibleEvolution) INFO: WinInet Error Codes (12001 through 12156) These error codes pop up from time to time [...]
The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie’s Vision for Connected Software – Knowledge@Wharton Ray Ozzie on changing Microsoft’s culture and discussing client platform patterns. (tags: rayozzie microsoft) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Ozzie walks the line Nick Carr’s analysis of the Knowledge @ Wharton interview with MS’s Ray Ozzie. (tags: nickcarr rayozzie microsoft) Bug [...]
IBM hails Jazz collaboration platform | InfoWorld | News | 2007-03-21 | By Paul Krill Jazz overview with a good description of the underlying architecture (Eclipse UI, web UI, server all built on OSGi); discussion of the open source and commercial stacks. (tags: jazz erichgamma) Edward Ort’s Blog: Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium Edward Ort [...]
The XMLHttpRequest Object The w3c’s attempt to standardize the de facto XHR standard. (tags: standards ajax xhr) XMLHttpRequest – XULPlanet Docs on the Mozilla implementation of XHR (tags: xhr ajax) REST based authentication Discussion of some of the issues of authenticating REST-style web services including an example of securing your services with Basic or Digest [...]