I was driving home from PHP Appalachia the other day and was thinking about how web services and web APIs in general are somewhat limiting.  I’ve had some discussions with David at our local tripug.org group, and his company is currently putting together an API for their customers to use.  He’s facing a lot of [...]

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I was driving home from PHP Appalachia the other day and was thinking about how web services and web APIs in general are somewhat limiting.  I’ve had some discussions with David at our local tripug.org group, and his company is currently putting together an API for their customers to use.  He’s facing a lot of [...]

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A friend of mine recently released a new product - http://www.formmapper.com.  What’s neat about this is that it allows non-programmers the ability to take PDF forms, draw field boundaries on the form, then associate data fields from XML files with those field boundaries.  Once that’s done, the XML data can be merged to create new [...]

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I’m attending the latest tripug.org meeting. Simon is giving a presentation about web services. I’ll try to have a better writeup after the presentation.
UDDI - no one here is using it. We’ve agreed that it’s sort of a more theoretical than practical benefit for most broad uses.
WSDL - Web [...]

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