Archive for 2008-05

Don’t Use a Hammer to Pound a Screw

2008-05-12 (Monday)

Now that I’m back to working, it has once again hit me how much I hate SOAP and the horrendous mess that is modern XML which it fairly accurately reflects. Instead of ranting about it myself, however, I’m going direct to you to an excellent post by Jeff Atwood: “XML: The Angle Bracket Tax“.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, that SOAP call translates to:

GetLastTradePrice("DIS")