July 2004 - Posts
I have had several discussions over the last couple of weeks with various parties interested in whether or not it's wise to exchange data contained in datasets between a caller and a service. I really dislike using datasets to pass information back and
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So as a brief interlude to the normal technical post on my blog, I thought I would just inject something a little more interesting! :) Part of my birthday present this year from the lady in my life was to go and see Eric Clapton at Key Arena. So last
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Michelle has posted an awesome discussion on “ what is a Service Boundary ”. She's got pictures and everything. Where does she find the time???? Thoroughly suggest you read this one!
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If you've never read any of David Chappell 's books or seen any of his presentations, you've missed out - he's a particularly gifted communicator with a balance and respect for all sides of a story that's all too rare in this industry! Here, Dave talks
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Does anyone out there enjoy trying to deploy a distributed application spanning several firewalls today? Has anyone managed it? You have??? Coooool! Give yourself a hearty pat on the back and a high-five because it's a very, very hard thing to do in many
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This is a question that quite a few people have asked on this blog, via emails and at conferences. The question usually surfaces after the “expose your business functionality as Web Services” message has been delivered. It is important to
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If you've not heard about .NET Rocks, it's worth going to http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/ to find out more! Think nerdy radio! ;) They've recently published an interview with Clemens where he muses on Services ... it's worth a listen ;)
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This subject never ends! I have just got back from MGB (Microsoft Global Briefing) where I engaged in many, many conversations with our technical and architectural consulting staff. By far the most pressing questions were around Service Orientation which
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Looks like Jimmy has bitten Clemens ' flame-bait ... read on for an interesting discussion :) (And thanks for the kind words Jimmy!)
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So here we are once more in Atlanta for MGB 2004. MGB is like a combined TechEd & PDC for Microsoft Services guys 'n' gals to get briefed on corporate strategy, updated on business practices and approaches, informed about imminent technologies, educated
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I have just made some minor changes to my blog: I have changed its skin to something a little more sober (and screen real-estate friendly!) I have made some minor updates to the article on “ Interesting Quesions on getting to Indigo ” Almost
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For those that don't already know, Matt Pietrek recently joined Microsoft and has now begun blogging . Suggest you add his blog to all your blogreaders ( http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/ ) - there will doubtlessly be a pile of great stuff coming from
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[Updated July 12th 2004] After watching my video on Channel 9 a viewer posted a set of questions, my response to which I thought may be of interest to the broader audience. Essentially, the questions boiled down to: Will Indigo Services require IIS? We
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In a recent post, I said that I was about to start coding some Indigo sample app's. Alas, those plans have been slipped a little for both technical reasons (I was blocked until one of our feature team's code made it into the source tree - this happened
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