Web Services Roundup, a good place to catch up if you've been away recently.

ajaxian.com is really gathering groundswell. (Is that a valid pair of words?)

Not strictly webservices, but still useful client/server stuff.

Ajax - more than a kitchen cleaner, a summary of the innovative stuff being done by Google amongst others.

The Amazon Web services conference has some fascinating talks.

My first Perl script to use Soap. On the way I discovered that the FTP client built into IE uses binary mode for transfers, so edit your files in an editor that can use Unix format, like PFE, or use a better FTP client.

#!/usr/bin/perl



use CGI qw(:standard);

use Data::Dumper;



use SOAP::Lite;

use SOAP::Lite +autodispatch =>

uri   => 'http://www.allconsuming.net/AllConsumingAPI',

proxy => 'http://www.allconsuming.net/soap.cgi',

on_fault => sub {

my($soap, $res) = @_;

die ref $res ? $res->faultstring : $soap->transport->status, "\n";

};



$AllConsumingObject = AllConsumingAPI->new('12','20','12','2004');



$tmpl_var = $AllConsumingObject->GetCurrentlyReadingList('paulm');



print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print Dumper($tmpl_var);

Java isn't always a good solution for cross-platform development because you have to go all Java all the way to the wire, but things are changing.

As Tim says, when Adam writes, you really want to read it.