Archive for February of 2005
NP_WikiLink v0.2
February 28, 2005
Updated that little Nucleus plugin I made a while back.
Windows-Cygwin/X-Fedora dual-monitor setup
February 06, 2005
Here's my guide to getting a decent Windows-Fedora setup going with two monitors using Cygwin/X.
The SOAP you'd rather drop
February 04, 2005
One of the latest tasks at work involves getting customer information from a client's database. For a variety of interesting reasons, they've chosen SOAP - the Simple Object Access Protocol - as the communication protocol. Aside from the amusing jokes you can play based on the name (“do you use SOAP?” “No” “Haha... I could tell from the smell!” and... uhm...) the use of the word Simple in the name is a blatant lie.
Example: there's a module for Perl called SOAP::Lite that's supposed to simplify use of the damn thing. In turn, there's another module, SOAP::WSDL which simplifies use of the SOAP::Lite module. You know you're not at simplicity's front door when there's two layers of simplification going on.
The partner's tech sent over a Java client to query the db via SOAP. You pass it an integer user id on the command line and it returns the user's data, maybe 15 lines of text. It bulked out at 3Mb...
Example: there's a module for Perl called SOAP::Lite that's supposed to simplify use of the damn thing. In turn, there's another module, SOAP::WSDL which simplifies use of the SOAP::Lite module. You know you're not at simplicity's front door when there's two layers of simplification going on.
The partner's tech sent over a Java client to query the db via SOAP. You pass it an integer user id on the command line and it returns the user's data, maybe 15 lines of text. It bulked out at 3Mb...