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Managed Services Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

By Chris Josephes
October 13, 2009

Hopefully, you weren't stuck in a New Zealand airport with a T-Mobile Sidekick.

Adobe Announces "Flash Platform Services"

By Andrew Trice
September 22, 2009

Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social.

Cloud API Wars - Where is the security arsenal?

By Subra Kumaraswamy
September 11, 2009

Last week was an exciting week for the Virtualization and Cloud customers and potential adopters. During VMWorld 2009, a handful of announcements by the cloud computing "picks" and "shovel" providers marked the beginning of the "Cloud API War" -...

Data chef: SPSS Tripe Consomm�

By Uche Ogbuji
May 1, 2009

The data chef discusses translation of data from SPSS format, for those who don't have a licensed copy at hand.

Flex 101: RPC Basics

By Andrew Trice
May 1, 2009

When building Flex applications, it is important to understand how to get data into and out of your applications and remote procedure calls (rpc). In this post, I'll try to shed some light on HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject classes and their usage.

Demystifying Web Services

By Amy Blankenship
April 15, 2009

I had my first encounter with web services about two years ago. I was contracting at the time, and Adobe had just announced the end of development of the software where I had most of my reputation, Authorware. I needed to retool my skills to Adobe Flex, and I needed to convey to potential clients what kind of skills they could expect as I was retooling. I decided I wanted my company website to reflect the bleeding edge of what I was doing. But I was also devoting a lot of time to blogging and participating in online newsgroups to try to spread the word, and I just didn't have time to manually update my site as often as I felt I needed to.

Using the Cloud for Disaster Recovery

By George Reese
April 12, 2009

Few companies have a solid disaster recovery plan and fewer companies actually verify their DR plans are working. One of the often missed benefits of cloud computing is that it makes rapid disaster recovery with minimal data loss extremely cost effective and enables the automation of those processes that can be tested often using automated tools.

[AWS:ElasticMapReduce] Google-sized Parallel Computing on a You-sized Budget

By M. David Peterson
April 2, 2009

@ http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/ you'll find an interesting new entry into Amazon's utility-based web service offerings: Elastic MapReduce.

eGov Watch: The Importance of Data.Gov

By Kurt Cagle
March 26, 2009

The Illinois River is a slow moving, meandering waterway that originates out of Lake Michigan, flows beneath downtown Chicago, then cuts through the rich Illinois topsoil as it wends its way to Peoria (giving the area its distinctive river bluffs formation) then through the middle of the state until it finally meets the Mississippi river at Alton, Illinois, on the Missouri border. Given where it begins and ends, the Illinois sees a lot of river traffic, from barges laden with grain to shipping containers to steam-powered paddle-wheel boats that evoke the memories of Mark Twain.

Blame the Credit Card Franchise: Criminals on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute) Cloud

By Nitesh Dhanjani
March 11, 2009

Amazon EC2 is an extraordinarily powerful infrastructure available to anyone with a stolen credit card. Even if someone is able to use the EC2 platform for a few hours with a stolen credit card, he or she will be able to initiate a vicious cycle that may become impossible to halt.

Developing Mashup Air Apps: Yahoo Maps Web Services

By Marco Casario
March 10, 2009

Excerpted from Chapter 18 of the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook. Mashup applications are based on the possibility of consuming remote data sources, and to create one, you need a good understanding of the APIs available. AIR offers even greater possibilities for creating mashup applications and widgets. With AIR, you can go beyond all the sandbox security of the browser and add advanced features to the application to interact with the file system or local storage with SQLite. This chapter demonstrates how to integrate the Flickr, Yahoo Maps, and Twitter web services to create desktop mashup applications with AIR.

Developing Mashup Air Apps: Consuming Flickr Web Services

By Marco Casario
March 10, 2009

Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service

By Andrew Trice
March 6, 2009

For this post, I decided to change things up a bit. Rather than go explore complex application patterns or data visualization, we're going back to basics. We will be covering how to make a basic application that makes a call to a web service and retrieves data.

Service Communications with Silverlight

By John Papa
March 1, 2009

Silverlight can talk to a number of types of web services using REST or SOAP, returning JSON or XML, or even communicating with RSS feeds. Its important to evaluate the type of service you need before developing it.

Getting Started with Silverlight 2

By Kathryn Barrett
February 18, 2009

You've learned how Silverlight can produce stylish interfaces and highly interactive applications in a variety of browsers, and now you want to build a Silverlight application. Not just a bouncing ball, an embedded video, or a spiffy-looking series of buttons, but a walking, talking, fully functional line-of-business application. Of course, you still want the snazzy interface, too. The good news is that you can have it all with Silverlight 2. The following excerpt is from John Papa's new book, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2.

Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX

By Kurt Cagle
January 24, 2009

I've been banging on the RESTful services/XRX bandwagon for a while now, and the good folks at O'Reilly have kindly consented to let me get out the entire trap drum set for an O'Reilly Webinar entitled "Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX".

SOA is Dead? It's About Time!

By Kurt Cagle
January 13, 2009

Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group raised quite a few hackles in the IT press yesterday when she asserted that SOA is Dead. Anne has the chops to talk on the subject - beyond her respectable career as an SOA Analyst for the Burton Group, she was also a former CTO of Systinet, an SOA governance company that eventually was bought up by Hewlett Packard, and was one of the early architects of the WS-* architecture ... so when she says "It's dead, Jim", people listen.

Why the AWS Console is Good for Cloud Tool Vendors

By George Reese
January 9, 2009

The release of the Amazon Web Services console has had a number of people predicting doom for cloud tools providers. On the contrary, by removing a barrier to experimentation that has kept people out of the cloud, the Amazon Web Services console should bring more people in the cloud and benefit tools providers whose value propositions are beyond Amazon's core value proposition.

SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

By David A. Chappell
January 8, 2009

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!".

Live WebCast 1/8/2009 - SIlverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

By John Papa
January 7, 2009

This Thursday I will be joining the MSDN geekSpeak crew to do a live webcast discussing Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. Registration is free ...

Analysis 2009: Application Services come into their own

By Kurt Cagle
January 6, 2009

As cloud computing goes, so do two complementary technologies - application services, and web services. It's easier to split these into two distinct sections, though it should be kept in mind that they are simply different manifestations of an...

Analysis 2009: The Web Services Era Begins in Earnest

By Kurt Cagle
January 6, 2009

(Warning, this gets technical). This may seem a rather odd statement - after all, "web services" in the traditional SOA sense have been around for the last decade, give or take a few years. I believe, however, that while...

Through A Glass (Very) Darkly: XML 2009 (Part 1 of 2)

By Kurt Cagle
December 22, 2008

A year later, the IT industry was in the worst recession that it had faced in fifteen years, a time that became known as the Tech Nuclear Winter. Senior programmers with thirty years of experience and post graduate degrees - people who sat on standards committees boards and often served to shape the industry - could be found at coffee shops "working on their next projects" while waiting for a job to open up.

How I Ended Up in the Cloud

By George Reese
December 13, 2008

Like most of us, I have been in the cloud longer than I have thought about being "in the cloud". But it took the need for a significant capital investment in hardware to drive Valtira into cloud computing using Amazon Web Services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Our journey into the cloud began with a new product offering and an attempt to avoiding shelling out huge up-front cash on hardware. Today, we have a complex infrastructure that saves us money over other options and provides greater flexibility.

EUC2?

By M. David Peterson
December 10, 2008

Proving yet again that attempting to boil the ocean results in nothing more than a few dead fish, Amazon Web Services continues is "one customer at a time" assault on the utility computing marketplace, this go round bringing EC2 a little closer to home for customers based in Europe.

On Why I Don't Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud

By George Reese
December 6, 2008

Cloud environments like Amazon EC2 have the ability to dynamically add and remove capacity based on your actual demand. Some tools extend this capability into auto-scaling. Auto-scaling, however, can be dangerous and often serves as a crutch for poor capacity planning.

Parsing XML in Silverlight

By John Papa
December 1, 2008

Parsing XML from SIlverlight is a whole lot easier with LINQ to XML.

Key Security Issues for the Amazon Cloud

By George Reese
November 30, 2008

This follow-on article to the Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security examines six real security concerns that gave rise to the 20 rules.

Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security

By George Reese
November 27, 2008

The Amazon EC2 cloud computing model introduces new classes of security concerns as you look to deploying web applications into the cloud. These twenty rules for Amazon Cloud security will help you protect the integrity of your cloud deployments from many different kinds of security threats.

Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud

By Nat Torkington
November 20, 2008

Yesterday I gave a talk to the Privacy Forum in Auckland, New Zealand, titled Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud. The talk was intended as a scene setter for a discussion with the audience, about 70 lawyers, technologists, consultants, and public policy wonks. They responded well to the challenge, and we talked about the nature of...

Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

By John Papa
November 18, 2008

The ADO.NET Data Services client library for Silverlight makes calling RESTful services exposed by ADO.NET Data Services easy. It allows request sot be made as either URis over HTTP requests or LINQ queries from Silverlight.

Increasing Availability in the Amazon Cloud

By George Reese
November 10, 2008

If you have done any experimentation in the cloud, you have likely realized that virtual server instances in the Amazon cloud are much less reliable than their real world counterparts. How do you compare availability in the cloud to a physical infrastructure and leverage the cloud to increase overall availability.

The Economics of Cloud Computing

By George Reese
October 24, 2008

Cloud computing has been "the next cool thing" for at least the past 18 months. The current economic climate, however, may be the thing that accelerates the maturity of the technology and drives mainstream adoption in 2009.

Paper Case: Music and Video Meet Origami

By David Battino
October 21, 2008

Here's a clever Web service: Find a CD or DVD online, click the Paper Case link, and it will print the cover image and details. Then you fold the paper, tuck your disc inside, and slide the package into a binder, saving lots of space.

Considerations in Building Web Applications for the Amazon Cloud

By George Reese
October 18, 2008

I have been helping a number of clients lately migrate part or all of their infrastructure over into the Amazon Cloud. The biggest concern I am seeing relates to whether or not their existing web applications will work OK in...

Amazon MP3 Store: Excellent Customer Service

By David Battino
October 13, 2008

While sweeping some of the detritus off my desktop today, I discovered a free MP3 download code I'd sliced off a disposable cup from a sandwich shop. Seemed like a good excuse to try out Amazon's MP3 store. So I entered Amazon's MP3 Downloads area, input the first disposable song title that popped into my head, and clicked. Amazon prompted...

BBC Shifts Conversation Style: Go Where They're Already Talking

By Peter Brantley
October 13, 2008

I think this deserves to be pondered. BBC News is moving away from merely hosting comments to inciting discussion in a variety of formats and locations. From Reportr.net: For...

MVC As Anti-Pattern

By Brian Lesser
October 11, 2008

Recently I asked a group of developers to review how they build Web applications. With over 100 ColdFusion applications/sites in place, I wanted to see what we could do to reduce the cost of adding new applications and new features...

The Kindle, the Cloud and Mixed Signals

By Mac Slocum
September 25, 2008

Adam Hodgkin notes a discrepancy between Amazon's cloud-computing efforts and the Kindle. From Exact Editions: If Amazon decides to switch tack on the Kindle and treat it simply as...

Amazon Preparing Content Delivery Network (CDN) For End Of Year Launch

By M. David Peterson
September 18, 2008

Proclaiming Amazon Web Services is "... Never Content" Jeff Barr recently announced the creation of what appears to be a content delivery network (CDN) scheduled for release at the end of this year.

David Chappell's Taxonomy of Cloud Platforms and Microsoft

By John Osborn
August 25, 2008

Microsoft's response to the emerging cloud computing platforms of Amazon, Google, and Yahoo has been spotty to say the least. Now a new white paper from distributed computing maven David Chappell proposes a taxonomy for classifying what's available today and offers a map of where Microsoft may be headed.

XForms and RESTful Web Services

By Philip Fennell
August 20, 2008

There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my opinion) set the HTTP Accept header to */* or just adopted the string used by the host browser. This made it nigh-on impossible to request, in a RESTful fashion, an XML representation of the resource you wish to edit...

The Behavior Gap: Three Persistent Problems for Internet Technologies

By Andy Oram
August 14, 2008

Behind the competing technologies for Internet application development--which impinge directly on the plans of Internet providers and dot-com businesses--lie some basic problems with Internet standards and protocols. Each technical problem is also a metaphor for difficulties in the way people interact, both online and off-line: we don't know how to handle many-to-many connections, we don't know what will happen next in time, and it's hard to split tasks between systems.

Processing the Deep Backlist at the New York Times

By Liza Daly
July 31, 2008

At OSCON, Derek Gottfrid explained how the New York Times is using Amazon cloud computing services to make the paper's historical archive viewable on the Web.

User Mediated Trans-Enterprise-Web Mashups?

By Jim Stogdill
July 16, 2008

Maybe we need a user mediated general purpose enterprise data service so that enterprises can mash up the way the web does.

AtomServer helps serve up AtomPub

By Taylor Cowan
July 11, 2008

The most interesting development within the XML world of late is AtomPub. It abstracts the details (however simple they may be) of REST and provides them in a well specified protocol. Instead of writing home grown RESTfull web services, merely...

An ESB for the Web?

By Jim Stogdill
July 11, 2008

Gnip seems to be to the web what the ESB is for the Enterprise.

Lambda the Ultimate on Why Multi-Core is Easy, Internet Hard

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 30, 2008

Lambda the Ultimate has a post up on "Why Multi-Core is Easy and Internet is Hard", It hits on some issues and servers, like Rest and Waterken with its capability based system over Rest so for that alone it is...

Widget Checks Your Apps for Updates

By David Battino
June 30, 2008

Here's something I've missed since OS 9: a wee program that checks if your other programs are up to date. The App Update widget compares your programs against the listings at Apple, Version Tracker, and MacUpdate, and then offers download links to the programs that are outdated. It generated a few "false positives," but also reminded me of a...

wordle with capitolwords

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 24, 2008

Capitol Words' webservices can be used to find the words that were used most in the days when Congress was in session in the year, with the count, so for example you could find out that the word surveillance was used 40 times in 2006-12-04 (obviously the count is with common English words removed), so with this data we can generate a wordle of all the words that were used most in the Congressional session of a particular year.

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