Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin

I'm sitting here in bed tonight watching a new episode of Law & Order SVU and the phrase “BLOG” has been used a few times in reference to a website kept by a suspect. Guess the term is really catching on if Hollywood is using it.

Now that construction for the new site has begun, I'm trying to come up with a list of departments. Departments are the highest level of organization for all of the information to appear on the site.

After reading Ted's Post about Robert's Post - which was about Marcie's post (gotta love following the links/trackbacks/comments/pingbacks stuff) - I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring on the subject of women (or dare I say girls) in IT.

How do you know you're a geek?

My last post did just about what I wanted it to. I got some questions from people and it gave me some more to think about. A sincere thank you to those that took the time to leave me feedback.

I feel that my weblog is probably the best place to make an announcement like this (more people probably read this than anything else I write) so, with that, I'd like to announce that I have decided to make the leap into building a developer community learning website. I haven't even settled on a name yet, but I have a few ideas.

I was listening to the latest .NET Rocks! episode; the part where they were discussing Service-Oriented systems. I don't remember exactly who-said-what but I do remember what was said. There was mention of something like, “You only want to pass XML messages back and forth, not objects.” The reasoning behind this (IIRC) had to do with interoperability. Let's say you have a .NET caller and a J2EE caller. Since they both define objects differently (and perhaps create and expect different serialized representations of objects) it's not gonna work. This got me thinking, why not have someone (like say, the W3C w/ the help of people at Sun, IBM, MS, etc.) develop a standard “object” schema for Web Services (and SO systems) to pass back and forth?

My most recent article for angryCoder has been posted. “Me, Myself, and Microsoft”. Go read it and let me know what you think by leaving feedback!