web service

Tap Into the Google Geocoder Web Service

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:01:39 -0500

IBM Developerworks: "Explore the Google Geocoder Web service that takes a street address and returns data about that address including its longitude and latitude. In this two-part article series, you will combine it with the Google Maps API and XSLT to create data overlays for display in Google Maps and Google Earth."

Build a RESTful Web Service

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:30:02 -0500

IBM DeveloperWorks: "Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. The hardest part of building a RESTful application is deciding on the resources you want to expose. Once you've done that, using the open source Restlet framework makes building RESTful Web services a snap. This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundamental concepts of REST and building applications with Restlets."

Univa UD Puts Its Cluster Software in the Cloud

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:31:33 -0500

The company has published a white paper that gives users step-by-step instructions for using its open source cluster product in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud web service.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:00 -0500

Filed under: Internet, Social Software

Stupid Ubuntu tricks: 5 Steps for resetting a forgotten password

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:00:00 -0500

Filed under: Linux, Troubleshooting

Poll Junkie: quick and easy polls without registration

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:00 -0500

Filed under: Web services