February 2004 - Posts

• WS-Eventing Workshop Results

  It sounds like the WS-Eventing Workshop was a great success. Jorgen just had us post the overview on MSDN which includes all the slide decks. You might want to check out Jorgen's earlier post on the workshop. There is also a yahoo group to discuss the Read More... Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:13 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Alyssa's First Application

  My 13 year old daughter, Alyssa, has shown a little more interest in the computer than her older sister and she seemed like she might be a good candidate for pulling into the world-o-programming so I ran down to the company store the other day and bought Read More... Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 12:38 PM by mattpo | 11 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff

• The Indigo Road

  Benjamin has a cool analysis of the natural migration of connected systems to Indigo. Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 6:18 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• When not to SOA

  Zapthink wrote up an article on when SOA is not a good idea . This is their list of when SOA is not a good idea: ...when you have a homogeneous IT environment ...when true real-time performance is critical ...when things don't change ...when tight coupling Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 6:14 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• WS-Discovery Published

  Microsoft and others published the WS-Discovery specification this week. This provides an ad hoc mechanism for services to advertise themselves and for service consumers to track them down. If you throw UDDI into the picture, it provides a mechanism where Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 5:58 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Vault + Mono = Linux Support

  I don't pretend to be on top of all the work done in the Mono world , but this strikes me as being the first comercial application that: 1. is advertising that it supports running on Mono 2. has gone through the work to test on Mono, and I suspect, 3. Read More... Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 4:45 PM by mattpo | 4 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Service Oriented Architecture Tools Demo

  With all the talk of SOA and how it will make agile application development a reality, I've had a picture in my mind of a tool where you build an application by consuming a piece of a service over here and another piece over there and so forth, throw Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:50 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Where is SOAP 1.1?

  Don indicates his trials in finding the SOAP 1.1 spec now that http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP appropriately points at the latest 1.2 spec. I ran into the same problem on MSDN . Seeing as I had neither a mirror or Don's tattoo (and although I heard about his Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:34 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center

• Feel the XML Love

  Aaron's teaching his students about the XML love. Welcome to our world. Imagine how many XML tags will be generated by the code this classroom full of students will write over the course of their lifetimes. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:20 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center