Il conto finale. (Sto pensando in italiano dopo aver letto quel primo capitolo e un paio di altre cose molto preocupanti su Berlusconi, Marcello Dell'Utri e la Cosa Nostra.)

A minor earthquake in SOAP-land, and already great things start coming out of it. It's sometimes good to shake things up a bit.

I always felt that the SOAP camp was too much driven by fear of not arriving first. With Microsoft and IBM each hacking away on implementations and features and not looking left or right, and everybody else left to follow or be left behind. It seems like people are starting to loosen up and think about the stuff that matters. (That's just my impression from the outside, of course.)

One reason I didn't jump on the SOAP bandwagon was partly due to some obscurities in the SOAP spec (which are starting to clear up now), but another one is that XML-RPC is doing so well. We currently have 50-100 downloads per day, number increasing, and people are actually using it, even at big companies like Amazon, Boeing, Lucent. XML-RPC is also doing well in the Open Source camp with supporters like RedHat, KDE, and O'Reilly.

Having said all this, it's quite possible that XML-RPC/Java will go SOAP, especially if the barrier of entry is reduced by introducing an XML-RPC style encoding option as proposed by Jake Savin.

I'm also reminded that I implemented asynchronous XML-RPC some time ago, but didn't come around to releasing it yet. Bad boy!

Wes Felter is sick, too. And he caught the Mac OS X bug. I'm even worse today than yesterday. Tomorrow it will either be better, or I'll see a doctor.

I just discovered a wonderful site called Gamasutra dedicated to "the art and science of making games" (via FUZO). I just read Birth of a new Game Studio, and all I can say is that I really admire the author for his thoughtfulness. Also, check out gaming industry vet Ernest Adams, who in his Gamasutra column called Designer's Notebook proposes a Dogma 2001 for computer games.

sorry, hannes, off topic: hab dir auf die mailbox usw, bitte ruf doch baldigst rück. gruesse

Ajo, Sven, kannst die Kamera haben. Schick einfach ein Mail wann du sie abholen willst. Anrufen ist nicht so günstig, das überhöre ich oft ;-)

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