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On Cicero

I finished up On Duties last night. It has taken me much longer to read this then I intend,butthe best meals are best savored slowly. This is truly a "changed my life" b...

WCF RSS/ATOM Endpoints for dasBlog

One of the nice things about my group is that everyone codes, including the managers. Omri is the PUM (product unit manager) of my team. He manages 100+ folks during the day (al...

WS-Discovery

VipulM has posted a WS-Discovery implementation at http://wcf.netfx3.com/files/folders/protocol_channels/entry7909.aspx. I call WS-Discovery the "once and future feature" of WCF. We had a team...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 6

I added support for non-Atom content types (with partial support for the different aspects of Media Resources and Media Link Entries- I have questions about this section that ...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 5.5

Simon Fell just left me a little Objective-C/Cocoa hint in the comments to my last post. I have been trying out a lot of feed readers in the past months and I somehow lost his entry, but I...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 5

[Continuing from Part 4] I have been using Fiddler to test my APP server impl. If you aren't aware of this tool and do HTTP programming, you should check it out. Fiddler works great, bu...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Part 4

With all the turkey, I haven't had much time to code, but I did manage to add dynamic service document support. You enter http:////servicedocument and I'll walk all the collections ...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Part 3

I havesomewhat completeAPP implementation done. I posted here: AtomPub.zip (255.06 KB). This solution requires VS 2005 or C# Express. To see it in action, run the solutio...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), Part II

I am still playing around with the programming model for the APP framework. Below is what I have so far. The goal is for someone to implement these interfaces and plug them intomy Ht...

Implementing Atom Publishing Protocol (APP)

I am in the process of implementing an lightweight APP framework as part my the "search work" Italked about previously (we have the whole week off for shipping Vista, so I a...

SOA isn't complex, you're dumb :-)

[Via Stephen Shankland]: "Guns don't kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people." & "If a tree falls in the forest, SOA knows about it." There are some really classi...

WCF Ships, Doug Purdy Dances, and Don Box Sings

The Channel 9 folks came over last week and this is the result. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=256597 ...

"Static" Web Services

If you have read my Fortune 500 and Inventing the Future posts, you know that I really want to make it easy to find Web services. It turns out that I was really talking about ...

"Static" Web Services, Part II

Continuing from "Static" Web Services, Part I... You can get the Excel worksheet with the Feed Exporter at http://www.douglasp.com/tools/Feed%20Template.xlt. Enable ...

"Old school" extension methods

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; NSObject* obj = [[NSObject alloc] init]; NSLog([obj toXml]); NSLog([obj descr...

Indigo is done!

Today is one of the happiest in my professional career. Indigo, now Windows Communication Foundation (part of .Net Framework 3.0), is done. We released it to MSDN todayfor Windo...

Tools for declaring Email Bankruptcy

I read that Lessing declared email bankruptcy (scroll down to find it, no bookmarks :-() in Wired recently. When reading that section, I thought about the little bit of VBA that I posted the ...

XNA Game Studio Express

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/aug06/08-13XNAGameStudioPR.mspx Say what you want about Microsoft, but almost all the folks here know the one universal truth to build a successful ...

Random Stuff: REST vs. WS Statistics

Stefan Tilkov has an interesting list at http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2006/07/31/rest_vs_ws_statistics.html. ...

Great Atom Presentation

This is a wonderful deck, i would have loved to have seen the talk...http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller?entry=tri_xml_2006_presentation...

To link or to embed, that is the question...

I wasjust reading "Dont use atom:content/@src for enclosures". While I clearly wasn't involved in defining the Atom format spec, I am very happy that Atom defines two di...

Connected Developer Blog Report

I think that Clemens posted one of my previous feed searches.  I am likely to keep posting these as I run them moving forward. Workflow Workflow Changes Part Three: tracking...

KennyW: Washing the SOAP from Messages

Kenny, our super dev on the Core Communications feature team, talks about how POX works in WCF now. http://kennyw.com/indigo/132...

How we (I) think about SOAP vs. REST

I was included in a thread today about how we think about SOAP and REST. Since we took a couple of DCRs in Indigo and changed our positioning around REST/POX/..., this question ...

Atom Publishing Protocol

I am spending a lot of time with Atom (Steve Maine can tell you all about it, but then he would have to kill you.) ;-) I just subscribed to the atom-protocol mailing list to see...

Fun with delegates and generics...

publicdelegate T ObjectEvaluator();public T TryCatchValue(ObjectEvaluator evaluator) { T retval =default(T);try { retval = evaluator.Invoke(); } catch {}return retval; ...

Rhapsody Web Services

I am spending some time with the Rhapsody Web Services. I have had issues with the Rhapsody product and website in terms of playing songs -- but the web services stuff seems fai...

Using the WCF RSS Toolkit

I just did a quick port of Yasser's toolkit to our latest daily bits -- I am working on something super secret. ;-) SMaine is going a "full" port -- which I am hoping that he ...

TypeForwardedTo

My good friend Yasser is no longer running the Indigo versioning basic.I'll let him tell you why, but needless to say, I think it is revenge for me offering him the "opportunity" t...

Rhapsody

I have been using Rhapsodyfor the past couple of weeks. I am having a ton of problems with it. I still can't install the software on my work or home machine (and I am ...

WCF RSS Toolkit

http://wcf.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/archive/2006/06/13/Windows-Communication-Foundation-RSS-Toolkit.aspx You'll be seeing alot more of this (RSS support that is)... Grea...

MindManager

I love MindManager. I use it all the time at work. It looks like they have a new version for the Mac. I love it even more. ...

Moto Q

I have a Q. The OOBE is wonderful. We'll see how it holds up over the weekend. ...

JSON

var person = eval({name:"doug"}); alert(person.name); What could be better? :-)...

Vista

I am running Vista for the first time since PDC. I am sort of impressed. Not ready to give up my Macs @ home yet, but I am impressed. ...

Man's Search for Meaning

I was on vacation yesterday. After running errands with my wife, we went to the bookstore. I did my usual tour and then ran into this book. I had seen it referenced before in other works...

Staduim Arcadium

I bought this album from iTunes the other day. I think this is their best album since Blood Sugar Sex Magik. (I imagine the previous sentence is going to cause a lot of strang...

10,000 Days

I finally have a copy of Tool's 10,000 Days. It has to be the coolest music art enclosure that I have seen since the Physical Graffiti LP. It has a set of stereoscopic glasses...

On Motorcycles...

I bought a motorcycle today. We'll see what happens... ;-)...

WCF & RSS

As we ramp down v1 & start talking about v.Next, you are going to see more of the below. Same data same exact user code completely different protocols - only changing config....

Doing Remoting over WCF

By default, WCF doesn't support passing references or preserving object graphs like Remoting. That doesn't mean you can't do it -- we actually designed WCF to support all the Re...

Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained

I just finished Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. I rate books, music, and movies the same: Changed my life Even trade (my money and more importantly, my...

My Chemical Romance

I am old. I really shouldn't like this band, but I can't help myself. They have been my favorite band for several months and I think that Thank You For The Venom was the most pl...

Mix'06 Conversation

Clemens and I did a video related to our Mix'06 talk. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=165296 My favorite part is around 4:39 into the video ...

SowmyS is blogging

Sowmy is one of the technical leads on the ServiceModel team. He will have some interesting things to say about serialization, metadata and (if you ask nice) Remoting. ...

Microsoft Soap Interop Server

What to know if your favorite Web services stack interops with Microsoft? ASMX: http://mssoapinterop.org WCF: http://mssoapinterop.org/ilab/ Have fun... ...

WCF & Partial Trust

Schedules happen. There are a lot of features that we wish we could do, but at some stage we need to ship. This is the reason that WCF doesn't support any partial trus...

Schema Profile

One of the questions I get asked a lot: "What XSD constructs does WCF (Indigo) support?" The answer is simple: all of them. The devil, of course, is in the details. ...

Encarta IM == HAL?

Savas told me about the Encarta IM bot the other day (read more here). I had a fun time with it tonight. Below is the best exchange... douglasp says: [11:30:22 PM] open th...

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