It's amazing what people will do to make a buck. My new colleague Ali Alpay and I were discussing the trendy Livestrong bracelets that support cancer research through the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Live Strong . He was amazed to find that people are...

We had an intense conversation at lunch as a result of Rich Salz' talk. I am looking forward to the follow up from Keith Brown. Essentially, message level security married with Queuing can prevent you from CPU targeted DOS attacks. And with message based...

The best part of the DevCon continues to be the discussions during lunch, I'll write it all up in a bit. And then you come back from lunch to see that Ester has picked up the story .

Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems kicked off the day with a talk on all sorts of random thoughts including: standards process and determining success of a standard, the future of RSS, why WS-Eventing is not a substitute for RSS, how atom is here to save the...

So far Rory is doing the best summary on the conference. And he likes my shoes .

Applied XML Developer’s Conference 5 October 20-21, 2004 Skamania Lodge, Stevenson , Washington (40 minutes from Portland Int'l Airport ) If not, you can follow the blog trail ... I will let you know who is blogging about it...