March 2006 - Posts

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WS-Transfer - Are We Talking HTTP Over XML Over HTTP? by jdanforth

I may be daft, but after reading the comments on WS-Transfer submission to the W3C , I get the feeling that WS-Transfer feels... I dunno, wrong? I know SOAP is transport independant, but a vast majority of the SOAP calls are made over HTTP, so are we...
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Building Web Services the REST Way by jdanforth

There is much talk at the moment about REST, what is it and not is, Lo-REST, Hi-REST and whatnot. For those of you who don't really know what REST is and don't have time (or like me, not the brain) to delve into Fielding's full REST description , Roger...
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Factory Factory Factory... by jdanforth

From last year, but so true and very funny - BenjiSmith wrote a story around why he hates frameworks . I'm currently in the planning stages of building a hosted Java web application (yes, it has to be Java, for a variety of reasons that I don't feel like...
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RSS Toolkit Update by jdanforth

MSDN blogger Dmitryr made a minor update to his excellent RSS toolkit: I am posting a minor update to the ASP.NET RSS Toolkit (version 1.0.0.1). It contains changes made in response to the feedback I received -- I'd like to thank everyone for their comments...
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[Vista] Vista VPC File Size by jdanforth

If someone's interested - the size of the virtual hard drive after installing Vista + VMAdditions is around 8 GIG. I could try to shrink the file size, but I guess it wouldn't help much. Seems pretty hard to copy it to a 4.7 GB DVD then...
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[Vista] Testing Vista Feb CTP on VirtualPC by jdanforth

Today I installed the Feb CTP of Vista on my box at home, under VPC. The install was noticably faster than before, but even so took about an hour I think. I went out for a while, enjoying the spring sun, so I'm not sure exactly how long the install took...
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[Vista] Virtual Vista Bloggers by jdanforth

An excellent way to test out a new operating system like Vista is to run it in a virtual machine, but some people run into problems installing and getting good performance out of it. The last days I've been reading posts from these two guys on the topic...
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[Java] Testing SOAP Headers with a Simple Axis Handler by jdanforth

This is not a tutorial, but just some sharing of my brief learnings when testing a simple Axis Handler (somewhat similar to ASP.NET Soap Extensions). I wrote 2 programs - one simple web service client as a Java console program and one web service. The...
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[Vista] Vista Back-door Nonsense by jdanforth

Seems that BBC was over hyping this story about a back-door in the Vista BitLocker system, read this comment from the Microsoft Systems Integrity Team Blog -> http://blogs.msdn.com/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.aspx "Over my dead body" - Niels...
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