All About Interop : Amusing

Profiles in Microsoftee-hood

DotNetInterop — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:19:00 GMT

I hadn't seen Microspotting before - consider me educated. It's a blg site run by a Microsoft employee that profiles... Microsoft employees.

Enough about you. Let's talk about me!

Yeah, it's self-centered, but despite that I found the blog to be well written and I expect it will be really interesting, for MS employees as well as outsiders. I especially liked the looks inside the different offices, like the tour of the new west-side South Lake Union office in Seattle. I even found some profiles of colleagues of mine in there, which is pretty neat. The profile on Shawn Burke and the Reference Source project was nice to see.

On the about page it says the blog site runs on some non-specified open source content management system. I wonder what it is, and I wonder if there is any interop story there?

Anyway, Check out Microspotting.

MySpace, and Content-Type Negotiation in REST using WCF

DotNetInterop — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Hah! followup on a hot topic. I posted earlier on content-type negotiation in REST with WCF.

My buddy Vittorio wrote about MySpace's kiss-and-tell episode at Mix08. MySpace has exposed a REST interface for the MySpace resources - see http://developer.myspace.com for more info - and the designers talked about their experience at the MIX08 conference this month. Cool!

But here's the thing - MySpace wanted to support different content types for the same resource. Rather than employ Accept headers for content-type negotiation, MySpace elected to use a different URL for a different content-type, on the same resource. So if you want a representation in JSON, then you tickle a URL that ends in .json. If you want plain old XML, then you use a URL that ends in .xml.

That's one vote, in favor of my viewpoint. Hah!

This doesn't settle anything, of course, except that, I'm right again.

Also, one more API to be added to Hanselman's list.

Interesting: Microsoft may become Platinum Sponsor of Apache Software Foundation

DotNetInterop — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:17:00 GMT

Am I the first to notice this? Yahoo is a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. If Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo goes through, Microsoft will assume that role.

Interesting!

I wonder if that is the key reason Steve Ballmer wants to spend $44Billion on Yahoo? heh heh.