August 2007 - Posts
Bobby Wolf basically points out, which many realists that have worked with ESBs, MOM, Services (SOAP) have already figured out - that an ESB is just a tool and not the answer to having a Mature SOA. Just as Web Services (SOAP over HTTP) has been viewed
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This is a bit unsettling? How many other "Company" have no idea if the personal information of their clients, users, partners are being taken. The following is taken from an email sent to Monster.com users in regards to the recent uncovering of what turns
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So, I was looking at Google Reader and noticed a link in the upper right - Offline (new).. What's that? Turns out, Google has a project called "Gears" that provides Javascript hooks that will interface with a few locally running services: Cache, DB, and
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A little while back Martin sent me a question on some of the examples in Chapter 10 of our book ( Pro WCF ). The point of the question was how to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using COM. The root of the capability lies in the
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In my (along with Chris Peiris) MSDN article ( Integrating WCF Services with COM+ ), there were a few things I wanted to change, but given the edit review cycle, I decided to wait until it was published and just blog about some additional concepts. What
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Check this out. If you're still using UML based techniques for some part of your process Dia provides support Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used
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Well yesterday's bad reporting is clarified by the Skype team. As for the root cause the Skype team squarely assumes the responsibility and doesn't point any fingers at other vendors for issues they just didn't test or code for in the scenario. From the
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This is just bad reporting. They blame too many login attempts resulting from windows update causing reboots. Are they kidding? So, too many users logging on causing Skype to crash is Microsoft's fault now? Bad reporting with sensationalistic headlines
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Well, an article, whose content was mostly taken from the WCF Book , is finally published on MSDN. It took quite a long time from "acceptance" to appearance. I believe it was back in February 2007 that it was finalized from a content perspective. Since
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I found this tool from an article in Code Magazine. Package This uses the MSDN Content Service Web Services to first give you a list of MSDN or TechNet categories, then you can just click and download, and generate either HxS or CHM files. If you don't
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My old company Avanade is getting some really bad press, along with Accenture - Rocky Failed to Connect CSTARS... The only question, whose version of the truth do you want to believe? In the article you certainly see a string of other failed Solution
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This is what happens when you skimp on resources for projects, take shortcuts, and frankly, hire amateurs. So many times I've shown up on projects and client sites, take a quick look at the code, then see how vulnerable a site is with injection attacks.
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The BizTalk server team has released the aforementioned tool to facilitate the development of "Adapters" (not just BTS, but general WCF) for creation of WCF extensions to consume existing service interfaces. Mostly, it facilities building well structured
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I've mostly switched to FireFox based upon it's speed and in comparison to IE it's a heck of a lot less clunky. However downloading files is limited, by default to 2 connections per server. Although the general W3C spec on HTTP downloads (or in actuality)
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Scott Berkun posts a few nice acronyms for some of the realities of teams and the process they follow during development. One term that I've used in the past and find useful in the myriad of acronyms is Application Solution Specialist == ASS Scott posts
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