Blogging Roller

I really enjoyed Sam Ruby's talk on SOAP at the Triangle JUG meeting tonight. Sam has a special skill for breaking things down to fundamental, easy-to-understand, thought-units, and then putting them back together and showing how the pieces fit together to do interesting things. Using this approach, Sam showed the audience that SOAP does not have to be complex and can be understood using the same view-source approach that we all used to learn HTML. He also took some shots at SOAP's dim-witted half-brother (those were not Sam's words) XML-RPC, but that flew right past the crowd because, frankly, outside of the meta-blogging clique, XML-RPC is just the fork that fizzled.