Open-source and Sri Lanka - LSF is up and running- May 1, 2003 I have finally gotten the open-source foundation in Sri Lanka off the ground. The Lanka Software Foundation is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to do whatever it takes to get local developers to participate and hopefully become leaders in the open-source world. I am playing the role of its voluntary technical director. We are already working on our first project - finishing the Apache Axis C++ implementation I started working on with a group of volunteers from here in Sri Lanka about...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111930/2003/05/02.html#a15 The myth of RPC vs. Document- May 1, 2003 I read Yasser Shohoud's "RPCLiteral and Freedom of Choice" article that Don Box's blog pointed to with interest. I agree with most of what he says, but I believe he makes a fundamental mistake in thinking that there are two message formats. I totally disagree - there is just one message format and people have used two different ways to describe them .. RPC style and document style. I now think we made a major mistake in making such using such dichotomic terms to describe the two styles of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111930/2003/05/02.html#a14 |