http://devnet.developerpipeline.comCMP DevNet Internet/XML http://devnet.developerpipeline.com http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj060327dc/ Greg Isaacs, Director eBay Developers Program talks about the growth of third-party software built to take advantage of web services from eBay, Skype, PayPal, and Shopping.com. (MP3, 6:21 mins.) http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj060223dc/ Dror Matalon discusses the AJAX standard, the differences between AJAX and Web 2.0, and AJAX development toolsets. (MP3, 4:53 mins.) http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj060214dnc/ .NET Software Legend and ADO.NET guru Jackie Goldstein discusses the history of ADO.NET, his recommended best practices when using it, and his upcoming book on ADO.NET. (MP3, 15:31 mins.) http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj060213dc/ Roy Mitchell discusses the challenges developers face when delivering Web services on mobile devices. (MP3, 5:12 mins.) http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0602j/ Google's Summer of Code resulted in thousands of lines of code. Here are more students who participated. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0602c/ Ajax, short for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML," lets you create dynamic web pages. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0601j/ Here's an XMLHttpRequest object that lets you use HTML and JavaScript to connect the presentation layer directly to XML data. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0601f/ James uses Ruby and its built-in XML pull parser for an alternative approach to XML transformations. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/dev051121pc/ Chris Sibbald discusses SysML, a visual modeling language for systems engineering applications. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0512k/ ScanZoom lets you use mobile camera phones to launch services by taking photos of barcodes. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj0512e/ Computing grids let you use parallelization to tackle really big data-mining jobs. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj1129557682000/ Will we really need desktop operating systems in the future, and is Ajax one tool that will make operating systems obsolete? http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj1127745259647/ The set of Web services standards seems to grow by the day. But if a Web services implementation supports all of these standards, is it necessarily secure? http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj050909pc/ Trina Seinfeld, Lead Product Manager in the MapPoint Business Unit at Microsoft, talks about mapping and web services--and new features of MapPoint Web Services 4.0. (MP3 Audio, 4:30 mins.) http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj1124918714742/ So why did Greg give up on Java and switch to Python? Only the XML configuration file knows. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/sdm0506d/ Sonic's SOA Infrastructure 6.1 lets you map and test XML messages and scenarios in advance, and Ivo Salmre's new book on writing mobile code emphasizes performance. By Rick Wayne http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj1111606443913/ A movement is afoot within the W3C to speed up XML by creating a standard binary format. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/cuj0502a/ The gSOAP Web Services Toolkit can help you serialize C/C++ data structures in XML with minimal coding effort. http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9857/ddj1100040022194/ "The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) this week ratified the Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0 specification, which defines a common XML library of business documents and invoices, as well as reusable data components from which other documents can be constructed."