Welcome!

Erin Cavanaugh

Subscribe to Erin Cavanaugh: eMailAlertsEmail Alerts
Get Erin Cavanaugh via: homepageHomepage mobileMobile rssRSS facebookFacebook twitterTwitter linkedinLinkedIn


Top Stories by Erin Cavanaugh

The Semantic Web is a hot topic in information circles today, and its adoption will largely depend on stakeholders understanding its potential benefits and tools vendors providing an easy entry for developers to learn and work with its related technologies. The Semantic Web Vision Imagine this scenario. You're a software consultant, and today you're taking a working lunch with one of your biggest clients. Her company has an emergency project at one of its remote offices, and they need your consulting services there for the next two weeks. You need to get there as soon as possible to begin work, so you take out your hand-held computer, activate its Semantic Web agent, and instruct it to book a nonstop flight that leaves before 10 a.m. the next day. You want an aisle seat ... (more)

Web Services Soup to Nuts

When you set out to develop a new Web service, do you start banging out angle brackets right off the bat, or do you sketch out the logic of your service first? For most engineers, the graphical approach to implementing business logic is much more accessible. Only after a picture is created does the complexity of translating it into code come into play. Though Web services are intended to ... (more)