I suppose that indeed you would be sending, not stealing, traffic to them with such a tool.

PS. I was wrong. I first saw snitch.name back when Yorgos posted about it. Actually, it’s already in my search bar, as a search plugin.

First of all thanks for the kind words

Although some of the features you mention could be a bit hard to develop, it is technically possible to do a newspaper meta-search service using the snitch.name paradigm. I’m not sure though how the newspapers would feel about that and especially their oversized legal departments

BTW you can also use snitch.name from the Firefox sidebar (http://snitch.name/plugin.html) or using the Facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/snitchdotname).

I’m dreaming of something similar for Greek newspapers’ search engines. A page where one enters his keywords and the query is passed over to all online greek papers. Even better if it could support each one’s syntax (different wild chars, boolean operators, etc.), and advances search options (chronological period, etc.)

I am using Firefox Search Sidebar to achieve as much as possible of this, but it’s an abandoned project, and it hardly works in Firefox 3.x…

Nice work! Well done, once more.

Thanks for your 2 cents I’m going to take a look to WS02, thanks for the hint.

Unfortunately, IT IS a real-world problem, since when you try to generate a service which takes as input an array of structures, for example, you obtain a WSDL containing the following type description (or something similar):

and the SAP system, on the other side, cannot generate (automatically) the proxy toward your service. Instead of that, you should obtain a WSDL type description similar to this:

But then you have to “teach” the library to correct deserialize the incoming SOAP request coming from the SAP system.

For this reason right now I’m modifying the NuSOAP library. Since I thought it could be of some interest to other developers I tried to contact Scott Nicholson, the mantainer, but at now I didn’t receive any reply. It would be helpful to test these modifications with him.

BTW, if he does not reply me, probably I’ll move my architecture over a more updated library.

Thanks for your interest

Having said that I’m not sure if the NuSOAP project is still maintained. Maybe you should also take a look at WSO2 which seems to be carrying the torch these days.

That’s my 0.02$

To me it seems that it still misses something: reading the WS-I BP 1.0 specifications:

http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.0-2004-04-16.html#refinement16556272

you can see that the way NuSOAP produces its WSDL in case you exchange an array (either as input or as output of your service), is exactly the INCORRECT way to codify arrays in WSDL (following WS-I).

As I wrong? Do you have any idea about how to solve this issue? I’m facing traying to produce a webservice that could be consumed by a SAP installation, that only accepts WS-I BP 1.0 services…

Thanks for the attention, and for the fable

So a shorter version of this could look like this (hope the blog won’t screw it):
a=confirm;while(1){alert(a(’1?’)&&Math.random()>0.5?’:)’:':(‘);if(!a(‘rpt?’))break}

Keep it up

Have a look at my (not very interactive) entry: http://blog.cherouvim.com/re-the-140-character-webapp-challenge/

IMHO the point is not the technical implementation but what service provides useful information. PeekYou, Spock, Whoisi, YoName & ex.plode.us failed to provide with any useful information whereas snitch.name delivered. I’m not advocating on its technical elegance or say it carries any technological breakthrough, I’m just saying it is useful. Plz see the user comments on that: http://snitch.name/about.html

Storing data or using a super-duper framework/technology doesn’t make a service suck less if it is worthless

the point is that peekyou,spock,wink and so on have info stored and those guys just doing u a favor of doing a “google search” for you

@ Pavel
“Search for People’s Profiles on Social Sites” means the data is on other sites. What is your point?

Αυτό το παιδί ήταν μαζί μου στο στρατό, LOL

See http://whoisi.com/about for the gist on what the site’s about.

http://www.infoq.com/articles/rationalizing-presentation-tier

http://sites.google.com/a/thinserverarchitecture.com/home/Articles

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/08/05/mvc-pattern-for-the-web/

http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/153

http://advogato.org/article/993.html

http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?A%20Future%20Web%20Development%20Framework%20-%20Architecture

http://jollytoad.googlepages.com/mvcusingjquery

http://www.owensperformance.com/articles/217/Will_AJAX_Break_MVC.xhtml

Also it would be nice if you had the time to have a basic understanding of the Web Presentation Patterns of the EAA book (http://martinfowler.com/books.html#eaa) or the J2EE patterns catalog. Both are classics, but are starting to show their age.

that helped me. I searched a while and didn’t find to much concerning client side templating. At least not in the in manner i’m interested in.

Is there any reference(book, paper, article, blog,..) that you could recommend me for further reading. Even if my application tends to be small I just want to practice the right design and structure for …mmhmh ..well, not doing ad-hoc-kamikaze-programming.

Thx again
Johann

I’ve been trying for a long time to write a follow up piece on how AJAX and solid client side frameworks like Dojo and jQuery blur the lines of MVC, but haven’t found the time.

To answer your question, YES in client-side-templating a large percentage of V part of MVC is done on the client.

“I would like to use the EXTJS framework for the client side and the Zend-Framework for the server side and though just exchange json-data.”

Most contemporary frameworks where developed to do the “V” primarily on the server and thus are far from optimal. Since what you need is decoupled services that produce e.g. json, I would suggest using a small core functionality from any framework you choose. Especially in the case of PHP you might find that the PEAR libraries can take you a long way.

Be warned though that doing a large part of the MVC on the client is “the road less traveled by”, but at the end “that will make all the difference”

Cheers!
Aaron

Keep on pushing the envelope guys

Google: GR-03-HEPNTUA !

CU !!

Cheers Panos