Is Email Dead?
So apparently some large corporations in America are ditching email completely. Here’s how it works:
“Do you want to meet for lunch?” - Messenger.
“The QA team have a meeting at 12″ - Employee blog + RSS
Anything else - Wiki.
Wow! What an elegant solution to the spam nightmare - lose email completely. Isn’t it always the way that such hard problems just require being approached from a completely different angle: Instead of: “How do we fix email?” we ask: “How do we replace email?”
SOAP vs REST
Just read a brilliant article on SOAP vs. REST. Here’s a classic quote on the evolution of SOAP:
SOAP grew a mechanism for running on top of multiple transport protocol bindings and a notion of “binding features.” SOAP grew from being a protocol into a “protocol framework.” In other words, SOAP grew and changed so drastically that now SOAP advocates can deprecate a feature (the SOAP type system) that was at one point considered the primary reason for SOAP’s existence. Its goals have changed so drastically that the word “SOAP” went from being an acronym for “Simple Object Access Protocol” to being merely a meaningless name.
LOL! - Cheers Stu for the link.
