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

[Gregory Alan Bolcer]

Gawd, you guys need a sense of humor.  The joke being
that I'm very partial to SOAP bashing and wouldn't be a good
judge. 

He who picks the apps wins the bake-off.  

Greg

James Hong wrote:
> 
> Eh? Since when did Tony and I become anything but fair 3rd parties? This is
> news to me!
> 
> cheers,
> james
> 
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> ----- 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
> >
> >
> > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork

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