November 2003 - Posts

• My Namesake

  <writingBreak> I occasionally go up to google and see what I get when I search on my name . Over the course of history (okay, over the course of the last 5 or 6 years) I've held my own for the most part at the top of the “Matt Powell” Read More... Posted Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:22 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• Legos

  Opaque or Binary Data in a Web service is like transporting action figures on a Lego train. More soon... Read More... Posted Friday, November 14, 2003 2:18 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications

• The Meaning of Everything

  The local NPR affiliate, KUOW, featured Simon Winchester, the author of The Meaning of Everything , on its daily Weekday show today. The subtitle of the book is “The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.“ I can waste hours flipping through Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:19 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• The Training Not Taken

  I was scheduled to be OOF today and tomorrow in training. I love good training. Quite often you come back from good training revitalized with a new outlook concerning certain parts of your life and your job. We had to cancel the training I was scheduled Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:29 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• Signal to Noise Ratio

  In getting feedback on my proposed bloglist page on the MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Danny Ayers mentioned that I had an equivalent signal to noise ratio as Sam Ruby and yet I am considering dropping Sam from the list. I don't see that combining Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:01 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Thanks for the Feedback

  I want to thank everyone for the feedback on my proposed listing of the MSDN Web Services Developer Center blog page. There are definitely some great suggesitons--but now the list I have is too long so I'm going to have to do some cutting. Apologies to Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:42 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center