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May 2007 - Posts

Monday, May 21, 2007 11:24 AM

WS-* and the Hype Cycle

There's a persistent theme talked up by WS-*ophobes that it's all just a fad , rapidly sliding down toward the "Trough of Dilillusionment" in the Gartner Hype Cycle . I've come to the opposite conclusion after six weeks back in the web services world.
Posted by mikechampion | 10 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:23 AM

The Secret of LINQ Design

A team within Microsoft ran an "app week" recently to build applications that implement customer scenarios using a variety of LINQ technologies. The feedback on LINQ to XML was uniformly positive. The participants were not XML geeks, but more like our
Posted by mikechampion | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:49 PM

Accelerating Evolution: LINQ News from Mix 2007

There is a lot of interesting (and once confidential) stuff that came out of the Mix conference this week. Jon Udell's " Watching Anders Hejlsberg reinvent the relationship between programs and data" ... offers an enthusiastic summary: A lot of the time,
Posted by mikechampion | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:37 PM

Reporting for duty on WS-Deathstar

After an enjoyable and extremely educational 2 1/2 years on the core XML team in SQL Data Programmability at Microsoft, I've moved to a position in the Connected Systems Division's Interoperability unit. Responsibilities include representing Microsoft
Posted by mikechampion | 5 Comments
 
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