Author Archives: jason

An Open Automotive Applications Platform?

Posted on January 9, 2005 by jason

Following on from yesterday’s car radio podcasting request, GadgetGuy brought me down to earth with what we could realistically expect in the near future. While I do not expect car stereo manufacturers to grok podcasting, it would be nice if … Continue reading →

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Podcasting: I want an aggregator in my Car Radio

Posted on January 8, 2005 by jason

With all the recent talk (and hype) about podcasting, I thought I’d chip in with my two cents. For me, the killer podcasting application would definitely reside within the automotive environment. This is really the only time that I have … Continue reading →

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Claiming my feed at Feedster

Posted on December 6, 2004 by jason

I just noticed that Feedster are offering some statistics to those who register their feeds. So, here goes… No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

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Apache Derby on Mac OS X

Posted on December 5, 2004 by jason

Earlier this week I got an email from John Tangney, a user of nntp//rss, reporting a problem running the latest release on Mac OS X. After some investigation, it materializes that the problem is actually related to Apache Derby, the … Continue reading →

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Amazon goes Queuing

Posted on November 4, 2004 by jason

A colleague of mine passed on a surprise announcement from Amazon: They’ve just launched the v1.0 beta of their Simple Queue Service. It is an online queuing service with some very simple SOAP and REST-style APIs for message queuing. For … Continue reading →

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Web Services Version Mania

Posted on October 31, 2004 by jason

This past week I attended Oracle’s Developer Days in New Jersey. The sessions basically covered Oracle’s pitch on SOA – although, unsurprisingly, after an initial high level SOA level-set, it seemed to focus more on the presentation, business and persistence … Continue reading →

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Web Services Reliable Messaging – An Update

Posted on October 30, 2004 by jason

Reliable Messaging holds a special interest for me, having played a significant part in my career (in the manifestation of various technologies such MQSeries, MSMQ, and, most recently, the products of Envoy) over the past ten years. Therefore it is … Continue reading →

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nntp//rss v0.5-beta-1

Posted on October 25, 2004 by jason

… has just been released. Lots of features that have been lurking in CVS for over a year (Atom parsing, OPML import/export, use of Jakarta Commons HTTP Client), as well as some newer features (Categories, Apache Derby embedded database.) Still … Continue reading →

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Aspect-Oriented Networking

Posted on September 18, 2004 by jason

Some interesting discussions are starting to happen on the similarities between the Aspect-Oriented Programming approach and SOAP’s processing model. SOAP’s use of XML namespaces to separate concerns within the header of a message enables the introduction of aspects (e.g. reliability, … Continue reading →

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Feedster Search Bookmarklet

Posted on September 15, 2004 by jason

Using the Make Search Bookmarklet Tool at Bookmarklets.com, I quickly put together a Feedster Search bookmarklet. Highlight some text on a webpage, then click on the Bookmarklet. Your browser will go to Feedster.com and automatically run a search with the … Continue reading →

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