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Best viewed in Apollo

I made a comment on Pete Lacey’s latest in the “RIA” discussion that I wanted to reiterate here; how is that different than the bad old days when a site was developed for one particular browser?

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The REST bandwagon: all aboard!

This made my day. 8-)

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Nouns, verbs, oh my!

It’s nice to see Pat Helland join the REST/SOA conversation. His first post is in a rather quisical, loose style that I hadn’t seen before, but that’s ok, I think I get what he’s talking about. The...

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How not to bridge XMPP and HTTP

BOSH is a specification that defines how XMPP can be used over HTTP. It’s obviously written by people who know what they’re talking about, because they’ve got good requirements, and get into great...

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What next?

Elias has noticed that my blog has fallen silent recently, and suggests that REST’s victory over WS-* has something to do with it. He’s right. I haven’t had much contract work the past few weeks, but...

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REST as a long bet?

I have to say, I’m with James in his response to Sam’s long bets; To say, as Sam and Tim both do, that REST is important is like saying the fan in my laptop is “important”. There’s really nothing to...

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Embedded Google maps: more opacity

I think Google really missed the mark with its attempt at embeddable maps. I suppose something is better than nothing for the myriads of folks who want this functionality, but when a simpler, less...

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Firefox 3 Beta 2: get it

If you’re a Firefox user (or any browser user for that matter), run, don’t walk, to download the latest Firefox 3 Beta. Damn, this thing is lean and mean. I’ve got my usual 40-50 tabs open right now...

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RIM doesn’t get the Web

It was about 2.5 years ago now, that I joined Research in Motion – makers of the Blackberry – for what turned out to be the shortest stint of my career. I was brought in as their “Web 2.0″ guy, though...

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A new Day

Well, that didn’t take long. The day after I posted it, I got an email from David Nüscheler, CTO at Day Software, asking if I’d be interested in working with them. Given that my friend and accidental...

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