The truth of the matter is that Iraq is in desperate need of foreign investment. If media companies aren't able to sell their stuff there without fear of rampant piracy, then how is that investment going to happen?
We've seen the effects of piracy in the third world. It affects the income of the media companies in a big, big way. Billions of dollars in software and media are pirated every day there! You wanna know why the dot com crash happened? Piracy, pure and simple.
Unfortunately, I suspect that we are among the few that do.
Why? Doesn't this imply that the security concerns that people have pointed out are in fact valid? I really don't understand this attitude that is prevelant in the security arena now a days that every single NMAPed client is a potential risk.
Look, I use SNORT like a good guy should, but sometimes, it just doesn't make sense to waste time on the interior of the system.
The book assumes the reader will have the knowledge of an intermediate level Perl programmer. I.e., the reader
is assumed to have a working knowledge of references, data structures, and object-oriented Perl. On the other
hand no previous knowledge of XML, XML-RPC, SOAP or XML related technologies is required.
It should also be mentioned that both of the authors Randy J. Ray and Pavel Kulchenko are also the principle
developers of the most popular XML-RPC and SOAP Perl modules: XML::RPC and SOAP::Lite respectively.
That said, the book is not a soap box for the authors to tout the merits of their tools.
Rather, it is a practical book which starts with grounding fundamentals. Readers should walk away with a core
understanding of XML-RPC and SOAP and not just a particular tool set for working with them. The authors
examine the alternative XML-RPC and SOAP tools, illustrate how they are used, and give practical and even
handed reasons why their modules should be preferred. Which comes down to issues of features, active
development, support, and the amount of work required to code to a particular interface. They then settle down
to a comfortable and thorough guide to XML::RPC and SOAP::Lite.
The topics and issues are illustrated throughout using real world web services. For example creating an
XML-RPC client for O'Reilly's Meerkat news wire, or a SOAP client to covert use.perl.org's journal stream to
RSS. Code is presented to the reader filtered down to highlight each particular issue as it is discussed. This is
nice in that it avoids listing slight variations of the same code multiple times, but on the down side it can also
leave the reader flipping back and forth to reassemble an example in their head. Full code for each example is
provided in the appendices. And all of the example code may be downloaded from O'Reilly.
All-in-all, the book is a thorough practical introduction to working with XML-RPC, SOAP and related
technologies. When I started reading the book, I was a bit disappointed to see that it only covered XML-RPC
and SOAP related services. When I finished, I was impressed with how very much information they'd managed
to pack into so few pages.
And yet, I was left wishing there'd been a more through coverage of interoperability issues between other
SOAP implementations and things like custom de-serializers. To be honest interoperability and de-serialization
are mentioned, and the authors do an excellent job of referring the reader on to sources for continued reading on
most other topics.
The book does an admirable job balancing content, length, and information density. Not to mention an excellent
job delivering the information that will still be relevant years and not just weeks from the date published. Most
of the topics I'd wished to see covered in more depth are those that are still developing and consequently most
likely to become quickly dated. In short a well balanced practical guide to applying XML-RPC and SOAP to
solve problems.
Herbert Van Thal writes "Rummaging through VersionTracker, I stumbled across a release note for version 1.0 of Hydra, a beer-free Rendezvous-enabled text editor. I'm not in a position to test the Rendezvous features, though they do sound very interesting - but Hydra certainly does run well as a Cocoa-aware text editor with extensible syntax highlighting - maybe a suitable replacement for BBEdit Lite? I couldn't find a previous mention on Macslash, so here you go. I'm impressed." I'm amazed at the sorts of applications people have thought up for Rendezvous that don't appear obvious at first.
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The truth of the matter is that Iraq is in desperate need of foreign investment. If media companies aren't able to sell their stuff there without fear of rampant piracy, then how is that investment going to happen?
We've seen the effects of piracy in the third world. It affects the income of the media companies in a big, big way. Billions of dollars in software and media are pirated every day there! You wanna know why the dot com crash happened? Piracy, pure and simple.
Unfortunately, I suspect that we are among the few that do.
Why? Doesn't this imply that the security concerns that people have pointed out are in fact valid? I really don't understand this attitude that is prevelant in the security arena now a days that every single NMAPed client is a potential risk.
Look, I use SNORT like a good guy should, but sometimes, it just doesn't make sense to waste time on the interior of the system.
The book assumes the reader will have the knowledge of an intermediate level Perl programmer. I.e., the reader is assumed to have a working knowledge of references, data structures, and object-oriented Perl. On the other hand no previous knowledge of XML, XML-RPC, SOAP or XML related technologies is required. It should also be mentioned that both of the authors Randy J. Ray and Pavel Kulchenko are also the principle developers of the most popular XML-RPC and SOAP Perl modules: XML::RPC and SOAP::Lite respectively. That said, the book is not a soap box for the authors to tout the merits of their tools. Rather, it is a practical book which starts with grounding fundamentals. Readers should walk away with a core understanding of XML-RPC and SOAP and not just a particular tool set for working with them. The authors examine the alternative XML-RPC and SOAP tools, illustrate how they are used, and give practical and even handed reasons why their modules should be preferred. Which comes down to issues of features, active development, support, and the amount of work required to code to a particular interface. They then settle down to a comfortable and thorough guide to XML::RPC and SOAP::Lite. The topics and issues are illustrated throughout using real world web services. For example creating an XML-RPC client for O'Reilly's Meerkat news wire, or a SOAP client to covert use.perl.org's journal stream to RSS. Code is presented to the reader filtered down to highlight each particular issue as it is discussed. This is nice in that it avoids listing slight variations of the same code multiple times, but on the down side it can also leave the reader flipping back and forth to reassemble an example in their head. Full code for each example is provided in the appendices. And all of the example code may be downloaded from O'Reilly. All-in-all, the book is a thorough practical introduction to working with XML-RPC, SOAP and related technologies. When I started reading the book, I was a bit disappointed to see that it only covered XML-RPC and SOAP related services. When I finished, I was impressed with how very much information they'd managed to pack into so few pages. And yet, I was left wishing there'd been a more through coverage of interoperability issues between other SOAP implementations and things like custom de-serializers. To be honest interoperability and de-serialization are mentioned, and the authors do an excellent job of referring the reader on to sources for continued reading on most other topics. The book does an admirable job balancing content, length, and information density. Not to mention an excellent job delivering the information that will still be relevant years and not just weeks from the date published. Most of the topics I'd wished to see covered in more depth are those that are still developing and consequently most likely to become quickly dated. In short a well balanced practical guide to applying XML-RPC and SOAP to solve problems.
Herbert Van Thal writes "Rummaging through
VersionTracker, I stumbled across a release note for version 1.0 of Hydra, a beer-free Rendezvous-enabled text editor. I'm not in a position to test the Rendezvous features, though they do sound very interesting - but Hydra certainly does run well as a Cocoa-aware text editor with extensible syntax highlighting - maybe a suitable replacement for BBEdit Lite? I couldn't find a previous mention on Macslash, so here you go. I'm impressed." I'm amazed at the sorts of applications people have thought up for Rendezvous that don't appear obvious at first.