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 of data transfer objects; [...]
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 « Jon Udell
Udell on Richardson/Ruby’s new [...]
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 – MozillaZine Knowledge Base
A list of [...]
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 and Rexford)
Information on concepts and usage [...]
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 on top of [...]
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: j2ee security)
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 while doing XHR requests [...]
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 287957 – need a way for [...]
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 on Erich’s TSS 2007 [...]
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 auth using Apache HTTP Server.
(tags: rest http)
What [...]