Interesting Links for 8-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Radiohead: are they any good? (A sceptic listens to the first five albums - funny and well written)
  (tags: music radiohead reviews)
• The S stands for Simple (Thankfully I don't have to work with SOAP, but if you ever have, this is hilarious)
  (tags: humor xml programming software web soa soap)
• The cowardly fudge behind the rhetoric of Control Orders (This being the bit that worries me about today's speech)
  (tags: law uk rights freedom government)
• Nick Clegg's speech on civil liberties. More of this please - reminds me why I couldn't vote for Labour last time around.
  I'm nervous, of course, of what the actual laws will be. But this is generally pointing in the right direction.
  (tags: uk government law rights freespeech libel terrorism)
• Glasgow pantomime dress broke Geneva Convention
  (tags: law uk)
• Facebook made profits of $350m in 9 months. Valued at $50Bn. Not sure that multiplier makes sense to me...
  (tags: facebook business web2.0)
• Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed. (They claimed that she copied the idea of wizards travelling on trains. WTF?)
  (tags: harrypotter law books)

Comments

S stands for Simple

[darkoshi]

I work with SOAP somewhat. That page explains/summarizes it better than I have seen anywhere else (I still struggle with the RPC vs doc/lit vs wrapped thing, and how to tell which one is being used), and it may be why I've never gotten a "warm & fuzzy" feeling of understanding about it. On the other hand, I feel comfortable with XML schemas, even though I don't know it all off the top of my head.

Re: S stands for Simple

[andrewducker]

I don't mind schemas. But I prefer nice simple message passing - I construct a request, pass it over, get back a reply. Easy to understand, and you can do it without a huge amount of overhead.