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James Snell is a member of IBM's WebAhead development lab focusing on the prototype development of pre-emerging software technologies and standards for IBM's own use. His research and development interests cover a broad range of current technology trends including Atom, AJAX, REST, Open Source, personal publishing systems, semantic web and situational applications. He is an active committer to the Apache Abdera project, currently in incubation and tasked with the creation of a high-performance, functionally complete implementation of the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol standards.



Friday March 02, 2007

JSON Security Issues

Rob Yates: “A user logs into a wiki on the corporate intranet. This wiki provides a JSON api with a callback function (Approach 3). The user then visits a rogue site on the internet. The page from the rogue site, when rendered in the user’s browser, performs a javascript include to the [...]
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Mar 02 2007, 11:22:54 AM EST Permalink



Thursday February 15, 2007

Royalty Free Atom

IBM just filed a blanket IPR disclosure relating to the activity of the Atompub WG. Before any misinformation starts going around about this I thought it would be a good idea to give y’all a heads up. As of right now IBM has NO KNOWN patents or applications for patents that read on the Atom [...]
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Feb 15 2007, 12:07:24 PM EST Permalink



Sunday February 11, 2007

Social Engineering

Bruno Giussani: “The individual is the new group. The most successful social applications today are those that allow individuals to pursue what they’re interested in, and then deal with affiliation and participating in markets” Kevin Gamble: “Everyone is pursuing the Holy Grail of hyper-productive social networks. We all want some of that magic for our organizations. [...]
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Feb 11 2007, 11:44:28 AM EST Permalink



Friday February 09, 2007

Thin Pipes

Yahoo Pipes: “As many of you noticed, we’ve had some downtime today as we try to cope with the unexpected heavy load” I haven’t yet taken the time to play around with Pipes yet; and to be absolutely honest, given that it doesn’t produce Atom, I’m not sure I’m really all that interested anyway. However, [...]
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Feb 09 2007, 03:17:29 AM EST Permalink



Wednesday February 07, 2007

Bravo

Simon Phipps: “In other words, we’ve done what Microsoft could and should have done in the first place instead of FUD-ing and fighting. We’ve used freely available open-source code to build seamless, intuitive support for ODF into MS Word.
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Feb 07 2007, 03:04:35 PM EST Permalink



Monday February 05, 2007

APP Implementations

There is a growing list of APP implementations available here.
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Feb 05 2007, 10:33:11 AM EST Permalink



Monday January 29, 2007

APP Interop

Several implementors are going to get together for some APP Interop testing at the upcoming O’Reilly ETech conference. If you’re implementing APP and are attending ETech, please join us. If you’re not attending ETech, no problem, we’re going to try to get some live endpoints up and running.
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Jan 29 2007, 04:42:13 PM EST Permalink



Saturday January 27, 2007

Test for developerWorks

Testing to see if this entries make it to developerWorks. Go ahead and ignore.
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Jan 27 2007, 03:39:38 PM EST Permalink


Saturday January 27, 2007

developerWorks

A while back I stopped actively blogging on developerWorks because of lack of time. Thanks to the folks over there however, certain entries (using the dW category) that I post here will be mirrored over there.
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Jan 27 2007, 03:35:46 PM EST Permalink


Saturday January 27, 2007

Just letting it happen

As I’ve noted previously on this blog, starting back on January 1st, one of my core day job responsibilities became the stewardship and continued development of IBM’s internal blogging infrastructure. I’m not what you’d typically consider a project manager but any stretch of the imagination but I have been tasked with moving things forward. [...]
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Jan 27 2007, 03:31:25 PM EST Permalink



Tuesday September 26, 2006

Blogging

Well, as you can probably tell, it has been a while since I've posted here.  I've often found that the busier I get, the less blogging I do, and with my recent job change, well... let's just say I've been writing a significant amount of code and have been finding it difficult consistently maintaining all three of my blogs (snellspace, developerworks and IBM intranet).  So I've decided to follow Bob Sutor's lead and post only to my personal blog at http://www.snellspace.com.  If I can find a way to get that content mirrored over here, then I will do so (at least the parts that are relevant to my work at IBM). 


Sep 26 2006, 04:11:35 AM EDT Permalink



Tuesday July 25, 2006

Turning off comments

This blog system was supposed to have been notifying me whenever comments were added to the blog.  Unfortunately, for some reason, it hasn't been doing so and the blog was hit by a nasty bit of spam.  So I've disabled comments completely for now.


Jul 25 2006, 01:12:00 PM EDT Permalink



Friday June 16, 2006

The New Job

I officially start my new job with IBM's WebAhead group today.  On a day-to-day basis, not much will change.  I'm still working from home full-time, still working on Atom-stuff pretty much full time, and still focusing on developing interesting emerging technologies.  The real difference is who I'm doing this work for.  Rather than focusing on standards and emerging technologies for the sake of product development efforts, I'm doing it mainly for the sake of supporting IBM's own business.  I will continue to support various syndication efforts going on in Lotus and DB2 but, for the most part, my main interest is in developing tools that will help IBMers do their jobs better.

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Jun 16 2006, 03:02:02 PM EDT Permalink



Tuesday June 13, 2006

IBM and Atom

Andy Patrizio, Internetnews: "...Now comes the effort to convince other ISVs that Atom is an effective means for moving data around."

At this point, you can pretty much put IBM into the "convinced" column.  Abdera is just the beginning.



Jun 13 2006, 12:51:29 AM EDT Permalink



Monday June 05, 2006

We can name it later

Tim Bray: "The Web isn’t a platform or a database or an API or an OS a cloud or a clickstream or any other of those things. In fact, the Web isn’t even a thing, it’s a mesh of agreements with a nice straightforward engineering rulebook. Play by the rules and you can be part of it and build something great, struggle against them and you’ll look lame and you’ll fail. But don’t try to analogize it; sometimes the world has new things in it and you just have to deal with them as they are."

+1.

Sam disagrees.  I'll definitely admit that metaphors can be good, for certain audiences; but they can also get in the way, especially when they're vague and take longer to explain than the code they're meant to describe.



Jun 05 2006, 03:09:39 PM EDT Permalink

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