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FW: Checkin #1383521
Beautiful. Don comments. You wanted to do XML over HTTP you said? WCF can now help you! Well done to Steve and others for pushing this.
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RIP nsp20
It was October 1st, 1995 when I started my MSc. degree at the University of Newcastle and when I was given the ‘nsp20’ handle which I used for more than 10 years. My account at the Newcastle systems didn’t expire immediately after my departure back in August because there were discussions about a possible “Visiting Research Fellow” post.…
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Seattle throughout the day
Dawn Afternoon Night And the sunset from Alki beach…
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When control flow semantics leak
Interesting comments by Mark on my last post (in case you don’t follow my comments).
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POX using WCF
For those of you who don’t like doing messaging in the ‘http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’ or ‘http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope’ namespaces (SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 for the XML-impaired), here’s something exciting in the Atlas + WCF space. (via Steve)
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Web Services systems management and the Grid
Last week, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Intel published a roadmap document about converging their WS specifications in the resource-orientation, events, and systems management space. There has already been some commentary about the roadmap (Ian Foster‘s “The Holy Grail: Industry-Wide System Management Standards at Last?”, Jim‘s “The Emperor’s Second Set of New Clothes is Gone“, and…
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What’s a “good thing”
It seems that not everyone agrees that the submission of specifications to W3C is a “good thing”. Please let me clarify what I mean by “good thing”. Do I agree with the resource-oriented nature of WS-Transfer as the underlying layer for service-oriented solutions? As older readers of this blog will already know, the answer is a…
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Amazon S3 – HTTP or Web Services: which is easier to use?
According to Mark Baker most developers (85% vs 15%) will use the HTTP-based mechanisms for accessing the Amazon S3 service. This is because the “SOAP interface is comical”. I won’t try to support Amazon‘s design. That’s their job. I would like to make a comment from a developer’s point of view. As much as I…
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WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C
Today a group of companies submitted WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C. This is great for the Web Services community. Expect more good news in this space shortly.
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The Microsoft iPod video
This video is so funny. According to Scoble, Microsoft has confirmed that it was responsible for the video. This is great. I always believed that the sense of humor starts from self-sarcasm. It’s refreshing. The iPodObserver has the story.