August 2005 - XML Nation

  • A transport of delight

    When I saw Steve Vinoski's recent pointer to his colleague's article about “ Where HTTP Fails SOAP “, I immediately thought of a song from the 60's by the English satirists Flanders and Swann. It's about the London Routemaster double-decker...
  • 4 quadrants of Indigo

    I just read John 's recent post about Indigo, in which he refers to my last post . His real issue with the platform is that it does too much to hide the underlying asynchronous messaging that is really the core of the system. I feel the same way, about...
  • On messaging and distributed system design

    It's been 2 months since I last wrote a post. I moved out of my turn-of-the-century Victorian house quite abruptly about then because we discovered that my little boy had elevated lead levels in his blood. We were on the road staying with family and friends...