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• Microsoft joins the web search API world

  Microsoft has released an API to use MSN Search at last. Instead of changing the license to their XML-formatted results , they've published a WSDL file for use with SOAP. I don't mind that at all though, I'm just happy I can finally use MSN Search output... Posted Sep 14 2005, 08:48 AM by jvdbos with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Services

• The SOA was good, the DSL Tools were better

  It's been an excellent week at TechEd Europe! I know it's been over for two days but I just now found some time to write about it. I've visited lots of sessions, mostly the ones about SOA since that was my focus this year, to get a good idea of what the... Posted Jul 10 2005, 10:57 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Services, TechEd

• TechEd Europe 2005: All about SOA (and a bit of Team System)

  For the past two days I've been visiting architecture sessions (ARCxxx) and a single one on Visual Studio 2005 Team System. After that I remembered why I don't like sessions that focus on tools and instead prefer to just work with them myself for a while... Posted Jul 06 2005, 10:33 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: Software Development, Services, TechEd

• Search APIs: SOAP or REST?

  I've been reading about the SOAP vs. REST-debate for years now and most of it seems quite pointless to me: there are clear cases where SOAP is useful and others where REST is preferable. In fact, I've had this experience recently when writing a tool that... Posted Mar 28 2005, 10:12 PM by jvdbos with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development, Services

• MSN Search RSS license destroys usefulness (updated)

  In a post discussing the upcoming MSN Spaces API, Dare Obasanjo writes: After noticing the difference in the media response to the ability to get search results as RSS feeds from MSN Search and the announcement of the Yahoo! Search Developer Network it... Posted Mar 05 2005, 06:46 PM by jvdbos with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General, Services

• Yahoo! releases Web API SDK

  Wally mentions that Yahoo! has released an SDK to interface with several of their search engines using (what else?) webservices. According to the documentation, Yahoo! will allow 5,000 queries per 24 hours for everything except Local Search, which is... Posted Mar 01 2005, 04:31 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Services

• Interesting ideas from the fortune teller

  Last friday, on TechEd's final day, I decided to visit some alternative sessions during the afternoon. One of them was a session called The Nerd, The Suit and The Fortune Teller by, respectively Clemens Vasters, Rafal Lukawiecki and Pat Helland. The format... Posted Jul 03 2004, 11:58 PM by jvdbos with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development, Services, TechEd