July 2004 - Posts

• The Don, Doug and Ted Show

  Check out The Server Side .NET's Ted Neward interview Don Box and Doug Purdy on their roles on the Indigo team, their philosophies on Web service specifications, and what is good/bad about existing technologies and how to use them today to prepare for Read More... Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 1:15 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• Clemens on .NET Rocks

  Clemens Vasters from Newtelligence speaks on service-orientation on the latest .NET Rocks episode. Check it out ! -Matt Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:47 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Speaking at Win-Dev in October

  I'll be speaking at Win-Dev in Boston (Oct. 25 - 29th) on Reliability and Transactions with Web services. You can check out the whole Web Services Track here which has some great speakers lined up. Register Now . -Matt Read More... Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 4:34 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• WSE 2.0 SP1 Plans

  Hervey posts information on the changes in SP1 of WSE 2.0. WSE users will want to check it out. -Matt Read More... Posted Friday, July 16, 2004 12:39 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• J2EE vs .NET Web Service Performance

  As a technical writer, performance is always a scary thing to write about. You can do it, but you invariably will come under so much scrutiny that it is ridiculous. I mention performance once in awhile in an article, such as this one , and invariably Read More... Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:09 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Royalty-free! Royalty-free! Royalty-free!

  I suppose it was due to the fact that in the early drafts of WS-Security, we made you sign a license to implement the spec, but we have taken a lot of flack about what our intentions are around royalties and our Web service specifications. The WS-Security Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:02 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• The Approach Microsoft and our Partners are Using Toward Creating Web Services Specifications

  Jorgen has just published an article that lays out the approach we are taking toward getting Web services specifications ratified. The answer is Workshops. Check out the article here . For all the latest scoop on workshops, check out the Workshops page Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:41 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• WSE 2.0 Webcast

  There is a Microsoft Webcasts coming up on WSE 2.0 tomorrow that you might want to check out: Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 – Level 200 Friday, July 09, 2004 9:00 AM - Friday, July 09, 2004 10:30 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US Read More... Posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:07 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• Wired Hoax

  Scott linked to this Wired article on the old chain email about Bill Gates sending money to anyone who forwarded the email. It is an interesting read about where that hoax originated. But I had a good chuckle when I read the following: On truthminers.com, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:18 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Free Visual Studio for Web Service Development

  You might not have noticed but the recently announced Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta allows for doing Web Service development. Download the Visual Web Deveveloper 2005 Express Edition Beta and one of the types of projects you can create is a Web service Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:36 PM by mattpo | 3 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Dave Mendlen Again

  I should have known that these things always come in threes. Adding to my previous post of Channel 9 videos of Dave on Web services, here is another where he talks about the process being used to create Web service specifications that ultimately are ratified Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:54 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Dave Mendlen talks Web Services

  For your multimedia pleasure, on Channel 9 , Dave Mendlen, Director of Web Service Marketing at Microsoft, talks about the idea behind Indigo and then talks about real world scenarios where Web services are being used successfully today . Or you can see Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:17 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Other Interesting Stuff, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems