Is this possible? How programmatically controllable is GarageBand?
Ubicom IP2000 development
The IP2000 is a cheap chip (< $10 in quantity) for doing 802.11b. It is a general purpose RISC cpu that's fast enough to do MAC routing in software. (is that correct?) Info from picklist: http://www.piclist.com/techref/ubicom/ip2k.htm
Low cost devkit:
http://home.netcom.com/~gregor_g/ip2022isp.html
An SBC using the IP2022-160:
http://ultradense.com/product_sbc.html
Ubicom page on the IP2000:
http://www.ubicom.com/products/ip2000/ip2000_processors.html
Picture of it being used in the Slimdevices Squeezebox:
http://www.slimdevices.com/images/inside_squeezebox/
Update 12 Feb 2004:
Drat, from what one of the Squeezebox guys have said, you must buy the $15k dev tools from Ubicom to do development. And, you still gotta buy a wireless card. This is not worth it.
SOAP to REST converter?
Has anyone made a converter that converts SOAP servers to REST?
Perhaps you specify a converter, with the query args you want to use
to then fill in the SOAP query, and an XSLT for output. This could be
automated.
Does this exist?
Why I want it: I imagine a large universe of simple clients,
either by virtue of their capabilities (no RAM) or their programmers
(SOAP can be needlessly complex),
which cannot do SOAP. But everyone can do REST.
Serving web services from your phone
There is a small app for Series 60 phones called ‘VS HTTPD’ puts an http server
on your phone. And others can connect to it. Thus one could create and
serve web services on your phone.
If porn drives technology…
…social software is driven by social outcasts.
Rant by an old programmer
(as I attend Etech04, I realize that this group is fairly free of the
buzzword crap that’s in the ‘real’ software engineering space.
The following is a rant by a hypothetical old programmer.
Not me of course, some of my best friends write SOAP-based web services
in Java)
“J2EE, WSDL, SOAP, .NET : je-zus.
Stop following the herd for once and actually think
a little about the latest fad-standard you’re drooling over. Most likely
it sucks and you’re just too clueless to realize it.”
“Repeat after me nitwit: ‘SOAP is just RPC. SOAP is just RPC.’
You say it’s not? Show me.”
“‘Debugging SOAP transactions’!!! Hah, waddya mean you can’t use ‘telnet’!??! What a bunch of wankers.”
“Write once, debug everywhere, works well no where. Stupid Java flaks.”
“You can’t spell grift without J.2.E.E.”
“You like pair programming? Fine, I got a pair right here”
FPGA + Ethernet can + OpenCore HTTP == fun
Hmmm….
The
ubicom IP2000 is the embedded wireless ethernet gizmo
used in the squeezebox.
Xess.com sells FPGA demo kits.
Search for “ISE WebPack” on http://xilinx.com/.