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If you haven't heard, Graham Glass , a fellow brit and good friend of mine, has resigned as CTO of webMethods. Graham and I did a lot of work together in his former days at The Mind Electric. From his blog, Graham says he'll be focusing on a new company...

I caught up with Benjamin Mitchell at TechEd Europe this year and we chatted briefly about WSE Trace - a small tool that I put together to help with viewing of traces generated by WSE . Given that there is still some interest in this I thought it was...

Apologies for those trying to leave comments on my blog - it appears that this functionality has stopped working :-( (and there I was thinking I was just getting unpopular). I'll get this resolved asap.

For those that didn't get to attend my session at JavaOne or TechEd Europe this year, here is a 5 minute "blog cast" of my MTOM interop demo - as I described in this earlier post . See how easy it is to use WSE 3.0 CTP and JAX-WS to send a binary attachment...

I may be the last person to realize this, but OneNote has an awesome screen clipping function. With the OneNote Quick Launch running in the background, simply hit {Windows Key} and S. Select the screen region you want and click to paste into OneNote....

One question I frequently get asked is "how do I handle exceptions over Web Services?" If you've ever tried passing exceptions using Web Services you'll likely be able to relate to the issues. The main problem is that the majority of toolkits don't have...

After a successful couple of months I've now switched our main home phone number to VOIP. Goodbye landline! Overall, it's been a very good experience. I take my hat off to the guys at SunRocket for excellent service so far. For those thinking about a...

On my way over to TechEd Amsterdam this week I found myself thinking about the best features of airlines that I've traveled on during the last year. Wouldn't it be great if we could have a single airline that combined the best features of these ;-) I...

* Update - minor correction to @find shortcut posted * I'm a great believer in "re-use but not repetition" and an avid fan of shortcuts that help me in my day-to-day work in front of the screen. Recently I've been looking at how WSH scripts combined...

Interested in Interop and based in the NYC area? If so, then come to the IASA Interop City meeting on the 14th July! This is a day long event where you can hear from luminaries in the industry about interop strategies, recommendations and futures. Here...