|  About  |  Archives  |  Log in  | 

Archive for October, 2004

Web Service Architecture

w3.org architecture overview

w3.org web service description

SUN Web Services Tutorial

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

RFID

This article describes WalMart's pioneer effort in using RFID tags and this article contains some comments on the WalMart strategy and effort, made by WalMart's CIO.

Here are some links to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) resources:

Nokia RFID reader phone.
Nokia usage scenarios for their RFID kit.

ACM Queue article on RFID basics.

RFID-journal

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Books

Just got word from saxo.dk that they have shipped my order:

——————————————————-

- Microserfs af Douglas Coupland

- Cryptonomicon af Neal Stephenson

- Globalization And Its Discontents af Joseph E. Stiglitz

- Digital Ground af Malcolm Mccullough

- Emotional Design af Donald A Norman

- Notes On The Synthesis Of Form af Christopher Alexander

- Design Noir af Anthony Dunne;Fiona Raby

- Okay Okay Boys af Kliche

- Supertanker af Kliche

I am not really satisfied with saxo.dk: Their site is unsuitable for browsing/searching for books and I usually use amaxon.com if I want to be inspired. Also, it takes Saxo quite a while to deliver shipments (I placed my order on September 5.) and in the past I have cancelled orders because Saxo's delivery times are unreliable.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Check out

TheServerSide.com article about POST, GET and REDIRECT.

J2ME:

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

PrintMate+ Print Server

A while ago my Netgear FM114P wireless router/802.11b access point/print server went silent. I do not know what caused this to happen but I suspect, I fried it somehow : The FM114P stopped assigning an IP-address to my laptop (but continued to do so for my desktop). I first tried restarting it and later resetting it, but things only got worse. It stopped assingning any IP-addresses and the web based admin application was no longer available. For the record, I should state that the print server had been malfunctioning for some time, causing me to disable it.

The mileage I got out of the FM114P was nearly two years running around the clock.
I replaced the FM114P with a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router WRT54G. The WRT54G was very reasonably priced; it supports disabling SSID broadcast; it supports WPA encryption and Linksys came highly endorsed by friends. Today, I noticed that ports of the WRT54G (it contains a 4 port switch) auto senses 10Mbps and 100Mbps connections, so I decided to give my *old* Sercomm PrintMate Plus -E print server a go. I downloaded software from the site listed below and so far, installation and subsequent printing has worked like a charm on both Win2K, WinME and WinXP.

Resources for the PrintMate+ : dynamode.co.il

Software can be downloaded from Dynamode's ftp-site

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Rational Whitepapers

IBM Rational UML Whitepapers can be found here: www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rational/web/whitepapers/

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Eclipse Tomcat

I have decided to try out the Eclipse IDE.

There is a Eclipse Migration Guide avilable at IBM Developerworks - this is the IntelliJ2Eclipse version, guides are also available for NetBeans and JBuilder.
There is a plugin for the Subversion version control system, called Subclipse.

Installation is as easy as:

  1. Start Eclipse
  2. Go to the Help menu->Software Updates->Find and install
  3. Then add the update site (http://subclipse.tigris.org/update).
  4. Obey the dialog prompts
  5. Restart Eclipse.
  6. That's all there is to it!

A nice tutorial on Eclipse + Tomcat + Struts at Java Boutique. The tutorial illustrates usage of the Sysdeo Tomcat plugin for Eclipse.

xmlmodelling Eclipse UML plugin.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!