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• UDDI - has it ever lived?

  Aaron Skonnard asked “ Is UDDI Dead ?” a few days ago, Wondering if WS-Addressing will reduce the need for it. Dave Bettin thinks that it can be sucessful , at least in the enterprise. Michael Erls thinks so too . My take - UDDI hasn't lived... Posted Feb 07 2004, 09:40 PM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: development

• WaitHandles for the confused

  I put up a somewhat old writeup on the ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent on my full blog, thought since it was .net, I'd post here as well. Here's an excerpt: Confused about WaitHandles? Sure you are. For one, they have the word "Event" on them.. Are... Posted Jan 27 2004, 02:27 PM by philipr with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development

• Labelling people "advanced" is done by beginners.

  If you ask a user if they're advanced, the answer they give will have nothing to do with the settings you're trying to determine... Posted Dec 10 2003, 08:21 AM by philipr with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: development, rant

• For most developers, it's not about tweaking performance

  Due to quick feedback (out of band) about size and relevence to .net, I have moved my response to this post from Critical Section to a “story“. You can find it here . Sorry to those that saw this in the aggregators. Posted Nov 04 2003, 11:01 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Are consistent user interfaces a thing of the past?

  Many people have seen the new Avalon UI paradigm, and the ease with which one can "skin" an Avalon app. Many of those people are concerned (rightly, I think) that this means that every app out there will depart completely from UI standards that we all... Posted Nov 03 2003, 08:44 AM by philipr with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• gSOAP 2.3.8, and you do care.

  From Dave Bettin - gSOAP 2.3.8 : We are pleased to announce the gSOAP 2.3.8 stable release for C and C++ Web services: ** Support for ANSI C and C++, including STL and templates ** Full support for SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 ** Full support for WSDL 1.1 (WSDL document... Posted Oct 31 2003, 05:00 PM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Ask the experts .. a wonderful community move

  One of the things that Microsoft is now doing really, really well is getting the community of developers involved . Part of that is blogs, part is gotdotnet, part is just Scoble ... and a small but really cool part is the PDC ask the experts . I had the... Posted Oct 29 2003, 11:38 AM by philipr with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: development

• Lorem Ipsum backfires in ironic manner.. film at 11

  Don Box is pointed to the Lorem Ipsum page by Nikhil ... Hoax or not, many people use Lorem Ipsum text to keep people from being distracted by real text. It's supposed to stop things like these in a graphic layout design session: A business stakeholder... Posted Oct 25 2003, 12:45 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: development, rant

• Longhorn available to non-PDC

  To those of you not at the PDC, reliable sources (?) say that Longhorn will be available as a public beta (for an undisclosed small fee) in November, and to MSDN subscribers in December. I wonder if this means that PDC-attending MSDN subscribers will... Posted Oct 24 2003, 03:14 PM by philipr with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development

• Runas /netonly - another wonderful tidbit of information!

  Why was I not informed? Damn, this removes the needs for a lot of workarounds I've implemented, running as non-admin or not - it's great for the consultant with a laptop... (From CraigBlog ) Today I ran across an entirely new option: the /netonly switch... Posted Jun 05 2003, 10:45 AM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development