Offline Gmail comes out of the labs. Newspapers - the slow death continues. The awesome size of the internet [infographic] - Holy Kaw! Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register. High performance access to file storage Comment In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: "use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default. " Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued that, in light of their newly published interoperability principles, it was the right thing to do. This declaration heralded an about-face and was widely praised by the web standards community; people were stunned and delighted by Microsoft's promise. This week, the promise was broken.
How many pages are affected by this change? Furthermore, web standards are discriminated against in IE8 by the icon that appears next to standards-compliant web pages: The picture shows a broken page. I have a few suggested remedies. Microsoft has a long-standing tradition of saying the right things about standards, but shipping non-standard products. Service-Oriented Architecture in Healthcare: The End of Hierarchy.
I have posted previous notes about the federated model in healthcare computing. Drs. Balis and Routbort recently lectured on the relevance of this model, closely linked to service-oriented architecture (SOA), at Lab InfoTech Summit 2008 (see: The Value of a Federated Architecture in Pathology: Test Order Entry;The Value of a Federated Architecture in Pathology: Test Result Reporting). For me, the most appealing aspect of this approach to healthcare computing is that it eliminates hierarchy among systems. Under the federated model in a hospital, each information system becomes a single-source-of-truth (SST).
I recently encountered an article in the Financial Times in which an advocate of SOA made some very powerful arguments in favor of this approach (see: What IT means to me: Software will bring about the end of hierarchy). Below is an excerpt from it with boldface emphasis mine: For me, the federated model/SOA is the only way to go. Internet Faxing / Virtual Fax - Send Only Plan. Enterprisesocialgraph - Google Code. Use the current Google hosted version of ESS here A simple, open source GAE project to allow enterprise users to maintain one single social graph. The goal is to explore and learn how Google App Engine can enable enterprise cloud computing. All work will belong to the community that contributes to this project. This application will be developed and hosted in Google App Engine and the source will be kept here.
It will allow users to maintain one master social graph across their various enterprise and personal applications. Extremely simple and straightforward integration techniques will allow a social graph to be connected together and kept up-to-date from multiple sources including e-mail, syndication, and common social graph APIs. To the extent possible, Google APIs and development kits will be used such as Google Web Toolkit, Social Graph API, etc.
This project is open to anyone who would like to contribute. -- Dion Hinchcliffe dion@hinchcliffeandco.com. OpenID-LDAP / Home. Enterra Solutions. Ruby. Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2. One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 blog service, just released AppDrop — an elegant hack proving that's not true. AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. Just like Google's Appspot, anyone can use a modified SDK to deploy their App Engine apps directly to Amazon EC2 instead of Google, and they work without modification.
This proof-of-concept was built in only four days and can be deployed in virtually any Linux/Unix hosting environment, showing that moving applications off Google's servers isn't as hard as everyone thought. How does it work? Of course, this simple portability comes at the cost of scalability. I spoke to Chris this morning about his project and where he wants it to go. SMOB - Semantic MicroBlogging.
Apple. Web2.0. Web2.0. Security. Google. SocialNetwork. Singularity. Tv. Usability. SPI Dynamics Takes Aim At Web 2.0 Security - Web Application Testing, WebInspect 7 - CRN.