Cameron Laird's personal notes on "Productive Programming"

• "Engineering a Public Web Services Project" (November 2002), on the Worldwide Lexicon (WWL) initiative;
• "Are Web Services Hazardous to Your Career?" (November 2002);
• "Federal Web Services Offer Opportunities for Rich Clients" (October 2002);
• "Gateways to CORBA" (September 2002);
• "Calendaring Company Exploits Web Services" (August 2002) explains how WS is becoming a "normal" technology for Journyx and other software vendords;
• "Intel Exec sees Plenty of Room for Web Services to Grow" (May 2002) is based on an interview with e-strategist Chris Thomas;
• "Web Services: Unrewarding Battlefield or Present Success?" (May 2002), a discussion with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on the "retail" significance of WS;
• "Google Shows the Value in Web Services" (May 2002) supplies example Tcl client code for the new Google Web API;
• "A Web Services Phrasebook: SOAP" helps developers translate between the native languages of different SOAP vendors;
• "Web Scraping for Web Services Programmers: Why and How" (March 2002);
• "Simple Web Services for C Programmers: Three Variations" (February 2002) provides code to slide C programmers into WS;
• "Web Services Sometimes Enhance Security" (February 2002), is a completely different slant to WS security than either the .NET or CORBA people are talking;
• "WSIF is the Right Answer to the Wrong Question" (January 2002), about an IBM-backed technology I see as a dead end;
• "Tcl/Tk for Rapid Web Services Development" (December 2001) emphasizes that ActiveTcl installs with everything a beginning SOAP programmer needs, and that Tk promotes more "intelligent" GUIs than conventional Web applications or even Visual Basic "client-server" programs.

The Intel Developer Services site that publishes Productive Programming isn't convenient for readers. I receive a lot of complaints about inability to register, login, receive pages, and so on. I'm told that the site will be updated in April 2002 or so.