Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - Posts

3D Desktops?

Wow, this 3D desktop for XP looks interesting - haven't tried it yet but wouldn't mind putting it into a VPC image and seeing how it works out. Read More

Keith Brown on UsernameToken security for WSE 2.0

Keith Brown has got a great article over at MSDN around how you can secure web services with WSE 2.0 UsernameTokens. I often fall back on using UsernameTokens for demos of WSE functionality because they're easy to understand Read More

MSDN .NET Nuggets

The UK MSDN site has a new section today where we are posting what we've called .NET Nuggets (!) The idea is to put up a piece of video which looks a little like a 10 minute web cast on a .NET topic (we've widened it out a little Read More

Endpoint References and XML Canonicalisation

Interesting post from Martin Gudgin over here on the work that's going on at the W3C around WS-Addressing and how this leads to a need to be able to compare endpoint references which then leads to a great description of the Read More

.NET and "Mid Life Crises"

Interesting post over here about "mid-life crises" in .NET applications. To summarise (badly, no doubt)... The post is about a .NET server side application honouring a large number of requests and, as part of serving Read More