February 2005 - Posts

• Is Microsoft's Entrance into the Anti-Spyware/Anti-Virus Market Predatory?

  As a user of Microsoft products and an employee of the company, I am of two minds about its entrance into the anti-spyware and anti-virus arenas. I agree with the sentiments Michael Gartenburg of Jupiter Research shared in his post Microsoft and Security Read More... Posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:05 PM by DareObasanjo | 10 Comments

• Google Toolbar: The SmartTags of the New Millenium?

  Michael Gartenburg has a blog posting entitled Is Google doing what Microsoft couldn't with their new search bar? where he writes As Yogi would say, "it's deja vous, all over again". When Google introduced the newest version if their toolbar, it seems Read More... Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:51 AM by DareObasanjo | 8 Comments

• Understanding the Place of POX, SOAP and WS-* in Building XML Web Services

  This morning I saw a post by Tim Bray entitled Another Loyal Oppositionist where he pointed to a post by James Governor stating that Microsoft is ignoring the demand for toolkits that support plain old XML over HTTP and instead focusing on SOAP-based Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:34 AM by DareObasanjo | 7 Comments

• The Fallacy of "XML Will Save Us"

  Steve Vinoski has a blog posting entitled Focus on the contract where he writes Tim offers some extremely excellent advice (as usual) regarding what really matters when you write your services. If I may paraphrase what he says and perhaps embellish it Read More... Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:56 PM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• On Interoperability and Tim Ewald's 3 Web Services Stacks

  Tim Ewald has a post entitled My 3 Web Services Stacks where he writes The point Chris was making was that you created a COM class, your choice of data type determined who could use your component. In other words, your choice affected how far your code Read More... Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:56 AM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• On the Complexity of XML APIs

  David Megginson (the creator of SAX ) has a post entitled The complexity of XML parsing APIs where he writes Dare Obasanjo recently posted a message to the xml-dev mailing list as part of the ancient and venerable binary XML permathread (just a bit down Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:04 AM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2005, April 25-26

  I got an email from Shelly Farnham announcing a Social Computing Symposium, sponsored by Microsoft Research which will be held at Redmond Town Center on April 25-26. Below is an excerpt from the announcement In the spring of 2004 a small two-day Social Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:12 AM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• We're Hiring

  The team I work for at MSN has open developer and test positions. Our team is responsible for the underlying infrastructure of services like MSN Messenger , MSN Spaces , MSN Groups and some of Hotmail . We frequentlu collaborate with other properties Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:42 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• MSN Spaces Tips and Tricks

  Abbie, who is one of the coolest MSN Spaces users around, has a posted a collection of links to various posts showing how to get extra mileage out of MSN Spaces. Check out her post MSN Spaces Tips, Tricks, Gods and More . Some of my favorite links from Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:26 AM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• Square Pegs in Round Holes: W3C XML Schema and XInclude

  One of the biggest assumptions I had about software development was shattered when I started working on the XML team at Microsoft. This assumption was that standards bodies know what they are doing and produce specifications that are indisputable. However Read More... Posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:44 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments