Bake-off proposal (was Re: [CNET] Web services -- a 2001 thing?)

[Dave Winer]

We seem to have entered some kind of time warp.

I'll bow out of this discussion now unless I'm called upon to contribute
something that I know something about.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Alan Bolcer" <gbolcer@endeavors.com>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
Cc: <mark.baker@sympatico.ca>; <fork@xent.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Bake-off proposal (was Re: [CNET] Web services -- a 2001
thing?)


>
>
> Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll work with The Hong Brothers to get my canonical SOAP app on
their
> > site. Dave
> >
>
> Like hell. You need a fair 3rd party refereeing.   We'll do the best
> of 3 out of 5.
>
> 1) Write an app that copies a file from one directory to another.
> 2) Write an app that creates a folder/collection and sets the owner of
>    that folder/collection to "Jimmy".
> 3) Write an app that publishes a document from any widely used (over 1
million) commercial
>    tool to a remote server directly from the tool using a strong
>    authentication method.
> 4) Write an app that opens up a document from any remote server using any
strong authentication
>    method of your choice in any widely used commercial tool (over 1
million)
>    and save it back to that server after some time spent editing without
having anyone
>    else overwrite any of your changes.
> 5) Write an app that searches all the documents on a server spread across
>    a couple of dozen directories and returns a listing of all the ones
authored
>    by "Jimmy".
>
> Greg