Robert A. Wlodarczyk's Blog (MSFT)

Looks like there will be another Microsoftee coming soon too... Alex Lowe has just joined the ASP.net team Developer Evangelism team at Microsoft. Congratulations to him!! :)

Tonite, one of my friends, Gary and his lovely wife Galia, invited my mom and myself over to their apartment for a really great dinner. I must admit, the food was great. And of course just their generousity for inviting my mom and myself over was awesome...

Ok, I must admit, I have been Macromedia ignorant. I was just interested in finding something about Macromedia Flash so I visited the Macromedia webpage and found that they have an article on developing an RSS Aggregator in Flash MX ... I must admit,...

After months and months of being on the beta for Lahey Fortran .NET , it has been released today! Grab yourselves a copy if you're looking to do Fortran development in .NET.

Christophe  points out that TMC re-released its famed report on J2EE vs .NET performance. So, after months and months of re-engineering and getting the “blessing” of the Java community (after a review of what they were doing, massive reconfigurations...

In prepartion for my move to Redmond next week, I placed an order last week at PC Richard's for a new TV set. I'm not taking the clunky old rear projection TV that we've got here at home since my mom still needs a TV to watch. So I opted to buy a brand...

Islands in the Pacific Northwest (in Puget Sound) and more information about where VS.net is going... checkout the VS.net Roadmap .

Last night a whole bunch of us ( Don XML , Mike , Samer , Tim , Dan , ...) met up at the NYC .NET Developer's meeting for a great talk by Billy Holllis about Extender Providers. Good stuff! I also met up with Stephen Forte (please note the new link.....

Ok, this post is a bit off topic... (woah, a whole weekend away from the computer!) Today some of some of my friends ([of those who blog] Jon , Mike , Steph , Richie , Brian , Jen ) et. al. threw me a going away/congratulations party for me accepting...

Well, amidst all my move planning and (dis-)organization at home due to the move, I've got a fairly busy plan for Tuesday next week. First I'm heading out to NYC for the Free Keynote at VSLive!. This should be cool to see what's coming up (not that I...

As Robert points out in his latest blog, looks like .NET is gaining on Java! Woohoo!! Maybe now if Computer Science Departments would look at such numbers and see in fact that .NET is a viable and a REAL development platform (contrary to what many of...

My article on my Photo Album XML Web Service has been published in August's issue of Hardcore Web Services Magazine . If you're a subscriber, here it is .

Isn't this just great... I don't think we need any more of these people out there trying to crack passwords as this article talks about.

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I just wanted to thank everyone for their comments on my previous entry . I just got back from a few days away from computers, email, the Internet, and all of the fun stuff. I spent a few days in Cannon Beach, OR ... It's an amazing beach, esp. for those...

While I was in Barcelona, I received an offer from Microsoft for a full-time position as a Software Design Engineer in Test on part of the Windows team (I won't say specifically which part of Windows). I've given this offer alot of thought, and this morning...

I would like to thank Chris Sells for the invitation to have me demo my Photo Album XML Web Service at the Applied XML Developer's Conference that was held over the past two days. Also, I'd like to thank him for organizing this wonderful conference! Good...

After the SellsCon (aka Applied XML DevCon) for the past two days, I'm pretty much sold on SVGs. Don XML gave a talk on SVGs yesterday and today Christopher Dix is giving a talk on WSDL and SVG. I've found some nice resources out there about SVGs: ...

A few people here at the Applied XML DevCon have asked about a DIME (ws-Attachments) implemention for Java. A quick search on good ol' Google shows that there is at least one DIME implementation for Java. It's available here: ( documentation , binaries...

Today's Day 2/2 of the Applied XML Developer's Conference . Today started out with a *bang* already. Ken Levy from the Whidbey team at Microsoft made an announcment about new XML editting features in Whidbey and plugins for VS.net 2003. Don XML writes...

Christian Weyer writes about Quake II .NET . This is a port of Quake II that was ported to .NET. Pretty cool if I may say so myself. Although I'm not a gamer, I've downloaded it and will try it out.

In the midst of  Keith Ballinger 's talk on WSE 2.0. Good stuff!! Can't wait for it to come out. Two new namespaces (maybe more): - Microsoft.Web.Services.Addressing - Microsoft.Web.Services.Messaging

Moris Sim writes a nice wrap-up about the whole Imagine Cup Competition. He mentions most of the teams, winning or not. Also, Gavin King has a wrap-up about the Imagine Cup Competition as well. Hey, I didn't even know that he DJ'd part of the night out...

Great talk! Don Box mentions in his talk that "people who get laid don't change CPUs in their PCs"... But besides this witty comment, Don's talk was great. He overviewed lessons learned from past and current technologies. He compares how objects revolutioned...

After a long flight because of delays out of New York, I got to Portland, OR really late last night. Today's the first day of the Applied XML Developer's Conference . I'll be giving the lunch demo today on my Photo Album XML Web Service which was my winning...