Interesting looking XML conference

Gotta love this description of a paper at the upcoming Applied XML Conference, 2003, West

SOAP, it wasn't Simple, we didn't Access Objects and its not really a Protocol
David Ing, Meridian Project Systems
Writing a business critical enterprise product from scratch using new programming languages, run-time and a new team just wasn't hard enough - so we added SOAP web services to the mix. This talk describes the XML adventures of the last two years using web services to bring a new product to market. Some of the real-world experiences discussed will contradict the current thinking of the use of WSDL, ASP.NET and XML Schema, so please be prepared for some awkward silences. It describes the design patterns that emerged from a service-orientated architecture and what lessons are still being learnt at every daily build. If you're contemplating starting your shiny new web services based product soon, then use this talk to save yourself some time, money and heartache. Warning: This talk contains explicit references to OO heresy - flaming torch / pitchfork not supplied.

I hope someone blogs the conference. Actually, thats pretty much guaranteed looking at the other speakers. Sam Ruby, Dave Winer, Patrick Logan etc.

Using XPath to query Jython objects

Patrick Logan shows how to tee up a Jython class so that it can be acessed with XPath expressions.

The good, the bad and the DOM

ERH on the wonderous, towering, monument to complexity that is the Document Object Model.

Jython is just too useful

Joey Gibson shares the delights of interactive Jython.

Googling M.C, Escher

I love today's Google logo. I first came across Escher at a Usenix conference in London some time in the late Eighties. A bunch of AT&T luminaries were in the front row. I think it was Rob Pike (or what is Ken Thompson?) who had a Escher T-Shirt. Someone else from AT&T pushing the benefits of TCP/IP had a T-Shirt that said something like "ISO Seven Layered Model - same day response in a nanosecond world". Or words to that effect.

Dan Gillmor ponders Mobile Cameras and the nature of snapshots

Mobile cameras and the nature of snapshots. How many moblog entries as-they-happened do you think this photo represents. What if the photo was take again this time next year? My hunch is that every phone will have a blog. A perfect place to put your photos which, unlike your SMS messages, need to live beyond the moment.

Python stuff on microsoft.com

Via Todd Ogasawara, eGovernment Team Leader for the State of Hawaii Information & Communications Services Division. There is lots of Python stuff to be found on microsoft.com. This article is about getting Python set up for scripting inside IIS.