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Copyright for Software Companies
Most programmers only think about copyright when management decrees that every file needs a copyright notice at the top or bottom. Next month, I’m sure a junior developer somewhere will be assigned to update the copyright date on a source tree to show 2007, while the features that would make that product a success languish unimplemented.
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Google Search API fails sporadically with "502 Bad Gateway"
I heard about Google's web service interface to the search database back when it was released, but today was my first attempt to use it. I'm trying to learn python, but the SOAP toolkits for python seem to be in a state of flux so I switched back to C# rather than figure out which python libraries to download.
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Web Service performance numbers--plenty fast for UI work
While designing Web Services, the question of "interface granularity" often comes up. Conventional wisdom is that Web Service calls are slow, so the interface must be quite coarse to prevent performance problems.