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  • 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; will have to circle back to that one.
    (tags: patmueller webservices modelling jazz)
  • Drip IE Leak Detector
    Tool for finding leaks in webapps running in IE.
    (tags: ie via:alexrussell)
  • PRB: Internet Explorer Cache Is Not Used When You Run innerHTML Code to Insert the Same Image Multiple Times
    The MS support doc on the IE6 DHTML image caching bug.
    (tags: ie ajax)
  • Internet Explorer and AJAX image caching woes
    More on the IE6 DHTML image caching bug.
    (tags: ie bugs ajax)
  • IBM – Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 support with Rational version 7.0 products
    (tags: ie rational)
  • Jazz Videos
    Videos of Jazz in actlon.
    (tags: jazz)
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  • 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 book
    (tags: web rest)
  • book: RESTful Web Services (Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby)
    (tags: rest web books)
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  • 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 various about: strings you can use to view Firefox config info (e.g. about:cache).
    (tags: firefox via:mikekaply)
  • An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning
    A relatively gentle intro to Bayesian reasoning.
    (tags: bayesian logic via:dewittclinton)
  • Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
    From the FAQ: “These days, the WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors, web developers, and other people interested in the development of the the next generation of HTML and related technologies, specifically designed to allow authors to write an
    (tags: web)
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  • 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 of web protocols, from HTTP to IP.
    (tags: books http)
  • Shared nothing architecture – Wikipedia
    Quote: “A shared nothing architecture (SN) is a distributed computing architecture where each node is independent and self-sufficient, and there is no single point of contention across the system.”
    (tags: architecture web distributedcomputing)
  • WAS v6.1 InfoCenter
    WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.1 Information Center
    (tags: websphere j2ee)
  • book: Building Scalable Web Sites (Cal Henderson)
    subtitle: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications
    (tags: books scalability distributedcomputing via:jamesgovernor)
  • book in progress: Web Form Design Best Practices (Luke Wroblewski)
    Quote: “This book will provide everything you wanted to know and more about designing effective and engaging Web forms that optimize these key customer interactions.”
    (tags: books web design via:nickedgar)
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  • 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 JAAS. Via Pete Birk of the WAS security dev team.

    (tags: security websphere jaas)

  • Paul Precod’s REST Resources

    Excellent set of early (in web years) articles on REST.

    (tags: rest http paulprescod)

  • Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

    Fielding’s excellent thesis which describes the REST architectural style but also has an interesting discussion on the topic of architectural styles in general.

    (tags: rest http architecture royfielding)

  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1

    The final word on all things HTTP.

    (tags: http rest royfielding)

  • Peter Norvig

    Fascinating writings and links from Google’s Director of Research.

    (tags: programming design peternorvig google)

  • Fiddler HTTP Debugger – A free web debugging tool

    Eric Lawrence’s very useful tool for monitoring network traffic (including XHR) between browsers and a server.

    (tags: web tools)

  • NevOn: Interview: Mike Wing, IBM – May 20, 2005

    2005 interview with Mike Wing (VP of Strategic Communications at IBM) when blogging was new at IBM.

    (tags: ibm mikewing blogging)

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  • 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)
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  • 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 in IE.
    (tags: programming ie)
  • Elias Torres » Blog Archive » I want my 304
    Issues arising from Firefox’s XHR implementation reporting 304 status codes as 200s which some argue is the right thing to do.
    (tags: xhr firefox)
  • JSON and Browser Security » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
    Good summary from Crockford on JSON and browser security issues.
    (tags: json ajax crockford)
  • Ajax : Ajax-Development-Gotchas – SWiK
    Nice concise list of Ajax issues that previously caused me to bang my head against the wall because I hadn’t read this list :-)
    (tags: ajax)
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  • 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 content to trigger a clearing of the HTTP auth session from script (.htaccess logout)
    Discussion of providing a programmatic way in Firefox to clear Basic Auth credentials.
    (tags: xhr firefox)
  • ClearAuthenticationCache Command
    Microsoft’s command for clearing a Basic Auth cache.
    (tags: ie)
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  • 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 Jazz presentation.
    (tags: jazz erichgamma)
  • IBM aims to orchestrate SOA projects with Eclipse Jazz
    Another interview with Erich on Jazz from TSS 2007, this one with some interesting history on the origins of the Jazz project.
    (tags: jazz erichgamma)
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  • 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 I Didn’t Know About XHR – O’Reilly XML Blog

    Interesting test case explaining browsers’ default limitations on number of concurrent XHR requests.

    (tags: xhr ajax)

  • Bug 339530 – Basic auth fails with XMLHttpRequest

    A bug related to supporting the user and password arguments to XmlHttpRequest#open

    (tags: firefox xhr)

  • MSDN XMLHttpRequest#open method

    Microsoft’s documentation on IE’s API for the XmlHttpRequest’s open method. It also talks about IE’s overly-aggressive GET caching.

    (tags: xhr microsoft)

  • XMLHttpRequest HTTP Feature Tests

    Executable test case to determine your current browser’s support for XHR features.

    (tags: xhr http)

  • XMLHttpRequest Caching Tests

    Executable test case to determine the correctness of your browser’s resource caching via XHR.

    (tags: xhr http)

  • Using Basic Authentication via with AJAX to access CMP

    Solutions for using Basic Auth from an Ajax application sans ugly browser dialog.

    (tags: xhr http)

  • [Cosmo-dev] CMP and AJAX

    Additional commentary and analysis on the ‘Using Basic Authentication via with AJAX to access CMP‘ wiki page

    (tags: xhr http ajax)

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