MSR released MapCruncher 2.0 today. This is a tool that allows you to take any map you might have (subway map, hiking trails, campus map) and seamlessly overlay with Virtual Earth. Imagine zooming down from outer space, directly to your back yard, and seeing your garden layout nicely mapped. Pretty cool!
Doug demonstrated this, working code, to me a few months ago. This sort of thing, baked into IE and Firefox, would change the whole landscape for people wanting the features of SOAP, but in a RESTful programming model.
Dare excerpts Yaron Goland, explaining how MSN uses POX instead of WS-* in many cases. It is very good to see MSFT employees no longer afraid to say that WS-* is sometimes not the right choice.
On the other hand, it’s reasonable to say that WS-* met most of its objectives; and IMO has been […]
Did anyone else notice this? Painkillers had nothing to do with Kennedy’s accident; so why act as if he’ll fix everything by going to rehab for painkiller addiction? I think his internal logic goes like this: “Stupid fool; I should have given the car keys to the housekeeper before I took Ambien! […]
Scoble lists five ways to save Microsoft. My thoughts on each:
1TB Free Storage for everyone: Is that really a moonshot? 1TB costs less than $1000 now. 1TB sounds big to people like us who grew up when 64k was a lot of RAM, but I don’t think it’s going to impress the […]