While it's cool that we have bits and electrons at this year's Developer's Conference, unfortunately the speaker has to compete with the entire web during their talk. This means that if you're less than completely riveting (which few speakers are), folks check out and often can't catch up. It's hard enough to give a good talk, but that's just brutal.

Jeremy is blogging the Applied XML Dev.Conf., too.

Aaron joins in the fun.

Rory Blyth seems to be keeping track of who he's eating with and who he meets in the rest room, so clearly, a must read. : )

Don's blogging the Applied XML Developer’s Conference.

10. WS-IrishSpring: for scented, more pleasing SOAP packets

9. WS-UPS: for sending SOAP packets in real envelopes

8. WS-USPS: for sending SOAP packets that dont need to get there

7. WS-PrisonShower: for picking up the dropped SOAP packets

6. X-Wife: protocol for monetary transfer

5. WS-Insecurity: dating protocol for web services programmers

4. WS-Monopoly: protocol used to keep antitrust penalties to manageable levels

3. NICKLE: for encoding smaller binary attachments

2. SFFCI: Syndication Format for Complete Idiots

1. WS-XXX: bringing a business model to XML, e.g.

<xxx:image xmlns:xxx=“uri://hustler.com/2003/oohlala”>
  <xxx:setting>the storeroom</xxx:setting>
  <xxx:model gender=“female” tattoo=“skull” />
  <xxx:model gender=“male” moustache=“true” />
  <xxx:pose>saucy</xxx:pose>
</xxx:image>

Chris Sells, Jason Whittington, Tim Ewald, Becky Dias & Brian Jepson
Presented at the Applied XML Developer’s Conference West 2003
July 10, 2003

My favorite thing about the term "refactoring" is that it gives a trendy name to architecting for today, knowing full well that we'll need to re-arch (and re-code) tomorrow when we've got new requirements. Stu says this in more detail for the unconvinced.

Apparently someone has confused me with Jerry Pournelle and has started sending me software. At least ActiveWords came in an email and the guy who sent it was nice about it (although I admit to installing it and then uninstalling it w/o getting much use out of it). Today I just got the full version of PowerBASIC in the mail. Apparently these folks don't know where I work. : ) Doesn't anyone know what PowerBASIC is? Is it cool? I plan on giving it away (if I can) at the Applied XML Developer's Conference.