Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Bug in news2mail. Just found a reported bug in the news2mail tool for Radio. The symptom is the message [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the
name "channeltitle" hasn't been defined.] on the Subscriptions Page.
I tracked it down, and found three new sources in my Radio aggregator that
were all missing the 'channeltitle' and 'channeldescription' properties. As
soon as I (manually) created the properties in the database, everything
worked fine. It turns out that all three were recently added using the new RSSExplorer
tool from UserLand, so apparently (by inference only) using that tool it's
possible to create a source without those properties. Furthermore, I've discovered another oddity. I wondered why Radio itself
didn't complain that these sources didn't have the aforementioned
properties, and I discovered that although the sources appear in the
aggregator database, they don't appear on the subscription page:
http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/subscriptions.
So it's my guess that if you're seeing this problem, like me, you have some orphaned subscriptions that
(a) may have come from RSSExplorer, (b) Radio itself ignores, and (c) freak
out news2mail. Unfortunately, since these orphaned sources don't appear on
your Subscriptions page, the only way you can delete or repair them is to go
into the aggregatorData.root and fix them manually. Not something I
recommend unless you're used to monkeying around with Radio's internals.
Since the problem is easy to reproduce, it should also be easy to create a
workaround...if I had the time. I can't promise anything, but I'll see if I
can fit it into schedule in the next week or so.
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:58:13 PM 
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Next-Generation Web and Application Hosting: Distinguishing Hype from Reality. Thursday, November 07, 2002, 11:15am - 12:15pm, ISP Con, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California.
IT outsourcing is shaping up to be the proving ground for next-generation Web and application hosting services. In conjunction with Tier 1 Research, technology advisory firm RampRate has developed the Service Provider Intelligence (SPY) Index, a proprietary measurement tool that weighs more than 35 business factors associated with Internet and hosting services. This session will offer an overview of the SPY Index and will discuss the essential criteria that clients and vendors will consider to make data-driven purchasing decisions today and tomorrow.
- Tony Greenberg, CEO, RampRate
- Andrew Schroepfer, President, Tier 1 Research
- Doug Kaye, Author/Consultant
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:55:07 PM
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The WHIR Digest. The team over at The Web Host Industry Review have launched a monthly magazine that's delivered as a PDF. The premiere issue is a good lookin' 15-pager with the following articles:
- A digest of recent web-hosting news
- Combating Spam and Research Notes on Latin America by Rawlson O'Neil King
- Research Insights by Shirley Siluk Gregory
- Support Solutions... by Liam Eagle
- What Web Hosting Customers Want by yours truly
It's particluarly nice to print out (in full color, no less) to read on the bus, train, ferry or airplane. Kudos to the WHIR team. Let's hope it's a success.
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:31:35 PM
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Understanding the Real Costs of Integration. In another excellent ZapFlash, Ronald Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg take a stab at explaining what I've come to believe may be the most important issue surrounding web services. "...blindly applying Web Services to integration is a mistake...just because a new technology has promise doesn't guarantee that it will be applied correctly." They go on to ask, "Are implementations of Web Services simply 'old wine in new bottles,' with interfaces every bit as brittle and tightly-coupled as in the past, or are they really implementing Service-Oriented Integration among Services at many levels of granularity?"
It's been my experience to date, when helping clients develop their web-services strategies, that the greatest obstacle is getting developers and architects to truly understand what loose coupling is all about. It's elusive, but an absolutely critical concept.
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:26:25 AM
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