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Saturday, June 29, 2002
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Sam comments on the newtelligence Web Services Extensions for ASP.NET, saying "This is great news. I know of at least one company desiring .NET implementations of WS-Security". Although I was pretty excited when I first read about the toolkit because this would be the first .NET implementation of WS-Security, reading the licence took the edge off a little - even though it's TechEd 2002 demo code, it's not like most of the Microsoft samples that you can take and use in your own apps at your own risk. The source isn't yet available and the licence is for "educational and noncommercial use only" - basically it allows you to download and test the software on one machine only & lasts for 30 days from the initial download. The web site doesn't state clearly if this is going to be a product at some point in the future, hopefully it will be. In any event, we should definitely thank Clemens et al for doing the work, but this isn't yet the 100% solution for ISVs waiting on .NET WS-Security toolkits. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
Shoot. Thanks Peter for looking into that. That pretty much makes it only useful for me to learn from and not much else then. Sigh.
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Friday, June 28, 2002
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According to this article, "Microsoft deprecated DISCO search for ASP.NET Web services in Visual Studio .NET's Add Web Reference dialog. RC-1's "Find Web Services on the Local Machine" link is missing. DISCO isn't gone; it's hibernating. Learn how to re-enable DISCO searches with a simple change to your machine.config file. Get ready for DISCO's replacement, WS-Inspection, with C# examples that generate .wsil files."
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I'm not a SOAP guy, but this looks like an interesting article on Digging Into the SOAP Headers with the .NET Framework. Matt Powell looks at using SOAP headers in the .NET Framework, including what information should go in the header, how to read and write message headers, and how to extend the SOAP infrastructure by using SoapExtensions to handle header-block processing.
8:26:03 AM
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Thursday, June 27, 2002
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My new website samgentile.com is live (with ASP.NET)! Only first two pages so far. Let me know what you think.
Update: I have copied the rest of the pages up there. They are still html pages and need to be converted. Some of the naviagtion bars need to still be done. For those of you who read the old site, you'll see that the new .NET main page is not cluttered with Amazon books. They have been removed in favor of cleaner layout and more information. Its no longer going to be a selling site.
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Sun switches gears on security. Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign submit a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backing of an unlikely supporter: Sun. [CNET News.com]
10:07:43 AM
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Greg has a nice post and sample code
9:53:36 AM
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Sam Ruby: Devcon East: Sessions and Speakers. When I get back home, I'll submit a title and abstract. Anybody have a suggestion on what they would like to hear me talk on?
Apache, AXIS, non-MSFT stuff that I know nothing about
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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DevCon East. The initial list of speakers is up for Chris Sells' Web Services DevCon East. Lots of others have said it, but I will too: if you're interested in Web Services, go. I see that Peter Drayton, Steve Loughran, Craig Andera, Eugene Kuznetzov, Keith Ballinger, Andy Gray, and Tim Ewald are all back. I'm interested to hear what Stuart Celarier has to say as well. Lots of these talks look like reprises of what went on in Portland last March, all of them worth repeating. [Gordon Weakliem's Radio Weblog]
It was quite an experience and really the seed that got my Blog going. Every single session was worth attending. I hope to go again.
8:38:26 AM
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002
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Joshua Allen nails it on the contraditons of the GPL and its prophets:
One cranky coder has taken exception to this particular argument in my "No Love for GPL" post, replying, "insuring that something you give as a gift to the community remains collective property is not organized crime." Pleasantly, this statement shows an understanding of GPL that is lacking in many OSS advocates. GPL philosophy is that intellectual property should be collective property. I don't believe that collectivism is criminal, or even wrong in all cases. But I think that collectivism is best used sparingly. Collectivism (the rejection of individual property rights) is the antithesis of freedom. When RMS champions a collectivist platform and cynically says it embodies "free as in freedom", it's not exactly the end of the world. Naive, pathetically retro, and cynical are adjectives that come to mind.
But I am concerned that so many otherwise bright developers fail to see the obvious incongruencies in GPL philosophy. Computer people are smart; we are supposed to be able to figure things out. So why is it that nobody is throwing a compiler error on a guy who says (collectivism == freedom)? Not only do they fail to see the typo in that statement, they even cut-and-paste the equation into every ZDNet forum they can find. The other major bug in GPL philosophy relates to my comments about transparency. GPL advocates often assert that ((IP == secretive) && (GPL == transparent)). This equation is only true in a very narrow scope that is mostly irrelevant (source code) to most developers, and is exactly opposite in most places where it matters. This flawed equation is basically the same as saying that ((capitalism == secretive) && (collectivism == transparent)). Asserting such is like saying that down is up and up is down - capitalism has produced some secretive and shady folks, but collectivism brought us Pol Pot and Josef Stalin. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that GPL is "a threat to mankind". I am simply pointing out that it should be self-evident that ((capitalism == transparent) && (collectivism == secretive)). When someone suggests that collectivism (GPL) is the way to encourge more transparency, while insinuating that capitalism (IP law) encourages secrecy, my mind suffers severe cognitive dissonance. I believe that most people are pretty intelligent, and have honorable intentions. So it is really difficult for me to understand how someone could truly believe that GPL promotes transparency. Initially, I rationalized the GPL as being a typical cute prank pulled by a clever social engineer (in the spirit of Church of Subgenius). But the fact that nobody has called the bluff for so many years leads me to believe that a whole lot of people are just plain duped, and have some very fundamental defects in their understanding of democracy and freedom. I am sure that GPL is not the cause of this deficiency, but rather a symptom. Our schools don't teach civics or logic anymore. And that isn't good for democracy.
9:11:43 PM
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XML and Inclusion. "I just read your 'Object vs. XML' post on the spout and I'd be pleased if you would allow me to respond with my own personal spoutlet. Here goes:" [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]
Personally, I'm in the XML Schema camp. I totally see the value in having loosely formed XML documents as well, but having a schema enables much richer integration with other environments.[Drew's Blog]
8:57:52 PM
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Monday, June 24, 2002
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Gen is the one of the best productivity tools I've used. It allows you to perform generative programming in a simple, wizard-driven environment, and integrates well with Visual C++ 6. It was the brainchild of Chris Sells, and developed by Chris and his team at DevelopMentor. It's an absolutely super product that I was thrilled to beta test (for version 1.5), and I regularly use it to lighten my C++ coding load.
Here is the e-mail message from DevelopMentor CTO Stu Holloway:
Hi faithful Gen users,
I apologize for not answering this thread sooner. As you know, Gen has been in limbo since DevelopMentor discontinued active development.
Well, limbo no more. We have decided that the best thing for our user base would be to open source Gen. Of course, open source means different things to different people, so now we are taking a pause to sort out both the open source terms and where the product will be hosted.
Expect a more detailed announcement soon.
Thanks,
Stuart Halloway
CTO, DevelopMentor
http://www.develop.com [The .NET Guy]
5:33:58 PM
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Friday, June 21, 2002
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Boy, I never have been so happy to see the Windows XP desktop as this morning-). After playing games, I went and spent 4 hours playing with Linux until I let VMWare write into my disk and trash the disk. I'm finally up again.
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