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ApacheCon Slides Are Finished
ApacheCon has begun and I am happy to say I have finished my ApacheCon slides. My talk on Consuming Web Services Using PHP 5 isn’t until Wednesday afternoon. Therefore, I technically have a few days...
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A Modest Proposal on How To Commoditize Away Google’s Advertising Revenues.
New eBay blogger Josh Scott muses about Bill Gates’s comments that Google isn’t really free because they serve up ads. To quote Josh paraphrasing Bill: [S]earch engines like Google get their revenues...
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eBay Plugin for Google Desktop
My man Alan Lewis evangelised Google to use eBay Web services to write a plug-in for their Google Desktop application. It’s quite nice and takes advantage of a not-well-announced new rate limiting...
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MIX 06
Today’s Day 2 at Microsoft’s MIX 06 conference. I’ve had a great time so far. Here’s my recap: Yesterday, was the big Bill G keynote and 1-1 chat with Tim O’Reilly. During Bill’s opening remarks, he...
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More from MIX 06
Ever since I started at eBay, I’ve been excited about using our Web services to improve the eBay experience for buyers. In particular, I think there are lots of interesting ways to integrate eBay into...
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Dirty Secrets of OSCON 2006
Under the heading of better two weeks late than never, here are my slides for my OSCON talk Dirty Secrets of PHP 5’s ext/soap Extension. As usual, I had a great time at the show. It was fun to see all...
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PHP SOAP vs. SDO
In my role as eBay Platform Evangelist, I spend a lot of time exploring different XML technologies. SOAP is obviously the big one. I use the PHP 5 ext/soap extension, which is great, but there’s...
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Imitation == Flattery
As most of you know, I work in the cut-throat world of web services. Us evangelists are always jockeying for the best developers, and we’ll take any advantage we can. No holds are (Jeff) barred. If you...
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REST Web Services, the Book
Sam Ruby and Leonard Richardson are writing a book on REST Web services. Very exciting. I love reading Sam’s blog and watching him untangle standards. Looking at the Table of Contents, I’m particularly...
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REST vs HTTP+POX vs SOAP
Sam and Leonard ponder the differences among them. Here’s the deal: REST == HTTP GET HTTP+POX == HTTP GET & POST SOAP == HTTP POST, with interop issues When I’m talking to people about web...
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