April 2004 - Posts

posted Friday, April 30, 2004 5:14 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

WSDL, IDL and CDL

So, I followed a post from Don Box's blog to this article about why WSDL is not another re-hash of IDL and that Service Oriented Architectures are not Distributed Object Architectures. The article goes to great length to differentiate between an Read More
posted Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:10 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

TeraBrick

Morgan  pointed out this new Lacie device http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118 which looks like it's shipping in May and offers 1TB of external storage.   What a fantastic little box - wonder what the pricing is going Read More
posted Monday, April 26, 2004 2:13 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Aaron Skonnard on WSE2.0, WS-Routing and WS-Addressing

  MSDN Article from Aaron - must read     Read More
posted Monday, April 26, 2004 2:08 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

BPEL White Paper

Scott Woodgate's blog has a post to a new white paper on the role of BPEL - http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2004/04/21/117549.aspx Read More
posted Monday, April 26, 2004 1:49 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Don Box on .NET Remoting

Don Box's blog has an entry on .NET Remoting versus ASMX web services and Indigo (it's not a long posting). I've had quite a lot of people talk to me about this recently so this posting might help http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx?key=2004-04-26T03:14:52Z Read More
posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:09 PM by Mike Taulty :: 5 Comments

SharePoint, DWP and Web.Config

I've been playing just slightly with writing WebParts for Windows SharePoint Services. One of the things you've got to do when you make a web part is to create a .DWP file that lets you load up your WebPart into SharePoint and you also have to add an Read More
posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:16 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Jeremy Mazner on the WinFS "cuts" announced in the press

I find this posting from Jeremy really positive. I'm quite excited by the prospect of WinFS in Longhorn and I've delivered the odd talk here and there myself on its potential and features and this posting is great to see following the recent Read More
posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:06 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PInvoke Signatures Wiki

Got this site from Chris Sells' blog so this is just one of those annoying "me too" posts around .NET interop and PInvoke signatures - http://www.pinvoke.net/ Read More
posted Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:08 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

GuitarPort

At the suggestion of Ian a few weeks ago I went ahead and bought myself a GuitarPort made by Line6 (www.guitarport.com). I'm not sure whether Ian actually has one of these devices or whether he was looking for a guinea pig to check it out Read More
posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:47 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Film Time

  We went to see "The Station Agent" (http://www.thestationagent.com/) over the weekend - truly fantastic film. Nothing much happens but it's just very nicely done and acted and a genuine pleasure to watch. It also (seemed) relatively short Read More
posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:37 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Dino on serializing DataTable's

Good snippet on returning DataSet/DataTable from a web service. http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2004/04/07/109184.aspx   Read More
posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Programming Yukon

There are some nice sample chapters of a Programming Yukon book appearing up on the ServerSide.NET site - link is here http://www.theserverside.net/books/inreview/ProgrammingYukon/ProgrammingYukon.tss I just had a flick through chapter 4 and it seemed Read More
posted Monday, April 05, 2004 12:59 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Smart Clients

  I've been talking about Smart clients quite a bit lately and have been using my own definition but this one http://longhornblogs.com/jlowy/archive/2004/04/05/2959.aspx seems to come pretty close to what I've been describing.The fact Read More
posted Monday, April 05, 2004 12:51 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WS-Metadata Exchange

  Strangely, I find this little spec quite exciting in its own way http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/specs/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-metadataexchange.asp   So, it's not rocket science in that Read More