I donât usually do a summary post like this one but as I try to go through my ~2000 unread blog posts, I am making a note of those I find interesting.
- Itâs nice to see that Steveâs work is causing a reaction đ
- Dennis Pilarinosâ blog is one to watch. I have been working with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) a lot the last few weeks and I really like it. Granted, Chris Sells and I have hit some walls here and there but the WF guys have been great in helping us overcome our problems. Thanks for all your help Dennis! Thanks to Pravin Indurkar and Marcelo Uemura as well for their time to discuss WF state machine futures. (BTW⌠you may have noticed that I am using the acronym âWFâ instead of âWWFâ. Hereâs why.). I am also interacting with Dave Green and learning lots!
- BackRow: A âportâ of Appleâs FrontRow using WinFX. Cool.
- WS-SX. Cooool!
- Aaron Skonnard does an HTTP.SYS transport for WSE 3.0. Way cool. BTW⌠WSE 3.0 ships on Monday.
- I sympathize with some of Wesnerâs comments. Not because of my current experience within Microsoft (itâs too early to judge) but because I have found that going through the PhD process you do get to think more abstractly, you do get to approach problems in a more systematic manner. Nothing to do with the degree, just the learning process. Paul taught me a lot! So far, however, the people I have been interacting within the company are extremely bright and technically very capable.
- Wow! These xbox 360 videos look fantastic! I donât think I am going to install cable TV in my new apartment by I am definitely getting an xbox 360 (and for that I need an HDTV:-), when I can order the console that is (in the area you canât even pre-order).
- May be of interest: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group.
- You have to love techies: Clemens and his TV adventures with WCF (there is a follow on as well).
- Dion is âkicking the tiresâ of SSDL. I am looking forward to the outcome of his investigation (whatever that might be:-) even though the example Dion is using does not highlight all the benefits of SSDL over WSDL. On the subject of SSDL, Simon, Jim and I have been busy with writing an invited chapter for an upcoming âe-Science and workflowsâ (not the actual title) describing the SC SSDL protocol framework. I am thinking of doing some work on combining Windows Workflow Foundation state machines and SSDL (oh, whereâs that free time? đ
- LINQ resources (via Dion)
- I am with you Don Demsak đ We should concentrate on messages and not expose boundable data/state through endpoints!
- âContract-first Web Servicesâ by Steve Close (via Eric Newcomer). Of course the âcontractâ can be a C# interface, SSDL, or your favourite contract language.
- Hey Robert, sorry it has taken me so long to reply. It was really nice to meet you too. XEST, eh? đ I am looking forward to reading your ideas. BTW⌠The paper is probably going to be a book now that Jim and I will be starting shortly. I am very excited about it. Also, apologies to Dan for not meeting him at the CodeCamp. I went on Saturday but then I had to spend Sunday looking for an apartment (I wasnât very successful that Sunday). Hmmm⌠I havenât written about the CodeCamp, have I?
- The Singularity paper is in my reading list.
- âHypermedia vs Choreographyâ (via Mark Baker). The thing with MEST/SSDL is that the message behaviour is advertised by the service. The other services wanting to interact with that service can determine whether they can do so or no. There is no âclient-side couplingâ.
- Excuse me? This is sooooo not SOAP! SOAP != HTTP POST and also SOAP != RPC. I didnât expect Mark to agree with this statement.
- âPeek / Poke vs. SPROCâ â Jeffrey Schlimmer.
- âThe Case Against BPELâ â David Chappel
- âIntegration and Interoperabilityâ, âArchitecture and Architectsâ, âArchitecture type definitionsâ â Michael Platt
- A very nice intro to MSH.
- âWhy Just GET and POST?â â Mark Nottingham
- Emerging technology trends
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- Food for thought: âTrouble with OSS: Some things that many people ignoreâ â William Tay
- Hmmm⌠nice (but I need to think about this some more): âObjects, Components, Web Servicesâ (although it should have been just âServicesâ) â Also, â10 statements about SOAâ â Stefan Tilkov
- This reminded me⌠I really enjoyed Tedâs sessions at the Seattle Seattle CodeCamp.
- âService Oriented Weaknessâ â Udi Dahan. Udi makes a good point. However, I will point out that just because marketictets (marketing + architects đ misuse the term to promote their products thatâs not a failing of the architecture. A set of architectural principles is strong when applied correctly (whether itâs called REST, MEST, SOA, OO, etc.). And yes, you can have a service that happens to present a GUI to humans. BTW⌠I am looking forward to reading about the MEST infrastructure.
- Ha ha ha! Very funny! âWS-Stardate 2005.10â â Tim Bray
- Great interview with my boss đ
Phew⌠that was it! ~2000 blog posts marked as âreadâ. Most probably I missed a lot of good ones đ To all bloggers⌠can you, please, stop blogging for a while? (just joking :-)))