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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:37 AM

Top Ten Web Services Interoperability Predictions for 2005

As we head in to the New Year, I thought it would be fun to put together some of my predictions for Web Services Interoperability in 2005. In no particular order, here they are: Popularity of "Contract-First" Web Service design will increase Thanks to
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:29 AM

Web Services Interoperability paper from IBM

Some Web Services Interoperability tips and examples in this IBM paper: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-tip-j2eenet1/
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Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:47 AM

Off Topic: RGB and BGR LCD Displays

'tis the season for "Off Topic" posts... Yesterday I picked up a new LCD monitor - an NEC MultiSync LCD 1860NX . I have a 19" NEC LCD monitor in my office, so I was keen to get something similar for home. It's a nice looking monitor, has a height adjustable
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Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:59 PM

Off Topic: MSN Deskbar Clip

Since installing the MSN Toolbar suite last week (see previous posts), I've setup quite a number of shortcuts. Amongst others, this includes one called blog which points to http://weblogs.asp.net/smguest . This is great, but people often Email me and
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:37 PM

Off Topic: MSN Toolbar Suite (Part 2)

I've been putting together a small app that writes settings to the registry. Half way through coding this I thought "Hang on! I know I've written something similar to this before...". I open the MSN Deskbar, enter the name of the function and it shows
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:25 PM

Off Topic: MSN Toolbar Suite

I installed the MSN Toolbar Suite today. I've never used the Google desktop equivalent, so I can't comment on how it compares - but I do like the power of searching everything from Windows Explorer, especially using my keyboard shortcuts. In the past
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Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:54 AM

Review of WSCF

This week, Christian Weyer of Thinktecture released a tool called WSCF (WS Contract First), designed to help promote developing Web Services using a WSDL first approach - and hence make services naturally more interoperable. Instead of just posting a
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:32 PM

Off Topic: Blog Reloaded

I have some vacation time to take at the end of this month. Aside from generally relaxing with the family and doing stuff around the house, I'm thinking it could be a good opportunity to "reload" my blog. Some of the posts and categories need a little
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:22 PM

Using XML Schemas effectively in WSDL Design

Here's a nice article for those doing XSD/WSDL first development of Web Services. Credit for the link goes to Christian (which reminds me... I need to test his WSCF release!).
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Friday, December 03, 2004 3:31 PM

WSE 2.0 SP2 released!

WSE 2.0 SP2 released today! Customer fixes included, plus a new security token (KerberosToken2), which supports impersonation, delegation and authentication in Web farm solutions. Download from the MSDN Web Services portal: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FC5F06C5-821F-41D3-A4FE-6C7B56423841&displaylang=e
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:28 PM

Microsoft WSE 2.0 SP2 and Sun JWSDP 1.5 Interoperability

I’ve just completed some work on WS-Security interoperability between Microsoft WSE 2.0 SP2 and Sun JWSDP 1.5 (the new version released a couple of weeks back). Overall, things went really well. The JWSDP implementation has changed quite a bit since 1.4,
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