July 25, 2006
Socialtext Bubble Bath Party
Many of my coworkers are sweating it out in Portland at OSCON where Socialtext announced that the socialtext code base is now available for download by anybody, whenever they like. (Q4K)
This is cool and all, and I'm very proud of us for doing it, but the part I like most about the announcement is toward the end: (Q4L)
Socialtext also announced its new Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Application Programming Interface to enable developers to integrate and extend Socialtext Open. Documentation is available at http://socialtext.net/stoss/?SOAP_API (Q4M)
This is yet another piece of the pie in opening up the system. Open code matters, but so do open systems and open data. The SOAP API is one phase in multiple phases of work happening to make it easy to get stuff in and out of Socialtext; to play in the growing pool of tools that take stuff from here and there, fiddle around a bit and put it there and here. This is what makes the internet fun and most useful. (Q4N)
The last time I got this excited about remote API stuff for Socialtext the tools that were created never made it out to the world, mostly because the Atom Publishing Protocol wasn't quite there yet (it's damn close now) but also because the Socialtext side of the code wasn't out there. (Q4O)
The situation is different now: SOAP has been around for awhile; the Socialtext code is done and awaiting release; and the SOAP service will be included in Socialtext Open when the SOAP code is released. It's tweakable. (Q4P)
But wait, that's not all. SOAP is not everybody's favorite (certainly not mine). Coming early fall, a far more featured REST-based API (with at least some segment of APP support). You get the data so you can make up your own methods. Some good fun will come of this. (Q4Q)
July 02, 2006
Scene Change
It's been a busy month and a bit. (Q49)
Went to Hawaii, which was lovely, only to return home to the landlord requesting are departure on account he wanted to sell up. Meanwhile I had more trips lined up. (Q4B)
So we quickly hunted for a place, quickly got a jones for Alki, and luckily found a place with a nice view before I went off for the Nth annual boat trip where N is something like 6 or 7. There should be some photos here but I left that to an aspiring professional so we'll have to wait on his fiddling. Fiddler? (Q4D)
Back for a week of moving and now off to Palo Alto for a much needed work gathering during which we will conceive, hatch and bring to maturity good stuff. There will also be sushi. (Q4E)
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