I sort of missed it when I first spotted that something moved in the WS-RM msdn home . Meet Web Services Reliable Messaging Policy Assertions, or WS-RM Policy : a pretty neat spinoff of the main WS-RM spec, where all the policy elements which survived...

Italian post. It would not make sense for somebody who's not Italian and above thirty... Stasera, durante il viaggio di ritorno in treno, discorrevo amabilmente con alcuni clienti di serie televisive del passato e annedoti correlati. La mia famiglia è...

Ahh. The Sunday's post about the little toy for playing with the accelerometer of certain tablet pcs had a notable success. Evviva! :-) Few answers to common questions: I DON'T use any Accelerometer API. I'm not aware of any public ones, and that...

If you happen to browse on the msdn web services page , don't miss the WS Specification News section: for example, today there is the announcement of an updated release of WS-ReliableMessaging !

Hi everybody! At the address http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/wingimcana you can find a small toy I wrote in order to play with one of the coolest but least mentioned M200 features, the Accelerometer. Winform is pretty far from my daily bread (web services...

As everybody knows, Simon produced a really useful wse trace viewer : however, I was never able to use it as quckly as I'd like (when you open it you have to navigate to your project via folder dialog, instead of pasting the path: and I have the tendency...

"Web service developers have trouble dealing with humans, and I'm not just talking about getting dates." Keith Brown, from http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/securusernametoken.asp Well, I'd say it can be...

http://splashpower.com/ I'd say that if it works they have a bright future. Considering than now I have a different adapter for each of the following (not everything is mine, but all of them are around): phone(s) bluetooth headset bluetooth GPS antenna...

Today I discovered that apparently the Microsoft.Web.Services2.Policy.PolicyExecutionStage type lives behind some sort of event horizon: no mention of it on the net (nor the use-net), if you exclude the usual msnd entry . Yet it's a very useful compass...

...then having a moblog must be really something! So I decided I want one, too. But I'm ignorant about the current offering & lazy at the same time, so I'll wait for a suggestion or for a more proactive mood. What I know for certain is that I'd love...

Strange how certain anchors seems not to be susceptible to watering by continual exposure to the triggering stimuli. Example: everytime I hear or read something semantically equivalent to "contract based", or "contract driven", I can't help to think of...

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Ahh guys. After a serious post , I feel the need to compensate with a light one. And I hope you'll indulge me if I'll do that in my own language: as Hofstadter would have said, this is a message in which most information must live in the receiver's mind...

...even if you plan to play only within the boundaries of your garden. Even if you think that you will never need to deal with the concept of federation, there are still very good reasons for setting up an identity provider. Instead of providing the official...

It's too easy to get spoiled by .NET and by all the related initiatives. I have the SP3 just from Christmas, and I'm already completely addicted to the idea of being able to write my own little apps with the Compact Framework (earlier I had the MPx200...

I'm running the classical old StarWars marathone, and I can't help to interrupt a sec for blogging about a detail I noticed only now and always eluded me earlier: C-HE relationship: the shorter the creature, the rounder the house door. That holds for...

Happy new year everyone! My first 2005 post is about something that I hold very dear, a computer science book titled " Modeling Reality ". I've seen pretty much all phases of its building happening at about 1 mt from me: following the geek couple pattern...

Hi again. As announced, I'm going on with some introductory posts about Media Center development. I'm going to provide a condensed view of what can be found in the standard documentation of the product. As announced, the post will be in Italian: if you...

Hi all. This is going to be the first of some posts about developing for Media Center: I had the luck to contribute to one of the very first applications in Italy, and I believe that it deserves to be discussed a bit. Media Center was just released in...

Every SF fan, sooner or later, goes through a phase in which he/she questions the plausibility of what goes on on the various book/shows. Well, I guess I'm going through mine right now. I'm slightly bothered by the classical "Captain, we've been hailed...

The beauty of managing to go to work by train is that you can happily keep your tablet on, ehr well, your lap, and do your stuff (unless there's a pack of children on an excursion that force you to make a demo of the tablet, of course :-) ). That has...

Hi all. It may not be WS-related, nor a crazy musing as the ones I'm used to send: nevertheless, this stuff is more than worth mentioning! Meet http://messenger.msn.com/Beta/Default.aspx : I'm SO happy it's being publicly released, I'll now be able to...

[Long and of doubtful practical use, you're warned.] Last Saturday I went to visit a town entirely made out of brand outlets. That place is amazingly confusing to browse; the sheer amount of input would induce cognitive overhead in everyone. My girlfriend...

There are things that are striking with their pure usefulness, and leave you wonder how you managed without in the past (and makes you panic to the idea of find yourself without in the future!). In fact, the last 10 years were especially rich of those...

[warning: may contain generalizations and/or traces of careless simplifications. Read cum grano salis ] This evening (that's to say about 1 hour ago: GMT+1) I was dining with a colleague consultant, and we were reasoning about how us Italian tend to cope...