http://srihari.info/blog Musings on technology, people Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Came across a significant post by JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist @BT) reckoning 2010 as the Year of the Platform. http://srihari.info/blog/posts/hny/ Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter  draws leadership lessons from the late Edward Kennedy's life. http://srihari.info/blog/posts/notes-on-leadership/ Last week some folks from Google released a new lightweight publish subscribe protocol called pubsubhubbub that interestingly also includes a new an ATOM extension. This is one of the first attempts to solve the polling issue that currently plagues feed aggregators such as Friend Feed etc. At the outset one ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/hypermedia-and-pubsubhubbub/ Finally some excellent arguments for why HATEOAS. For those interested in the details here is the thread on rest-discuss. http://srihari.info/blog/posts/hateoas-enlightenment/ There has been some significant discussion on the blogsphere about Clay Shirky's recent post on the future (or the lack of it) of news papers. Here is a collection of some of his ideas that appealed a lot to me - Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/clay-shirkys-note-on-newspapers/ Though its been a couple of days since the award was announced I did not come across a lot of mention of this year's ACM Turning Award in the blogsphere except on Mark Little's blog. This year's Turing Award (the equivalent of the Noble Prize in computing) has gone to Barbara ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/and-the-award-goes-to/ Finally an authoritative work on Cloud Computing from UC Berkley's RAD Labs. It is quite likely that in the time to come other works on cloud computing will end up citing this paper a lot! Also watch the quick 15 minute video. http://srihari.info/blog/posts/cloud-computing-clarified/ A couple of weeks ago I talked about REST at SOA India 2008. It was nice to see some attendees already familiar with REST mostly because they were consumers of Amazon S3 but were curious to know the details. The talk went well and today I received some requests for ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/soa-india-2008/ For the last 10 months or so I have been quite heavily involved in building RESTful server components and I think now is an appropriate time to retrospect on how my own thinking has changed since then. For the first month or so I really did get this cool new stuff ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/restrospective-part-1/ Somewhere I heard the speaker say in a ppt on REST that the guys behind the WS-* specs are ** actually bright ** people but somehow kept missing the point. Here is another proof of this statement. I think this juggernaut won't stop until they have made everything that HTTP facilitates also possible ... http://srihari.info/blog/posts/another-miss/