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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 191 comment(s)
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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...
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 5 comment(s)
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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.
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...
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...
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 1 comment(s)
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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 no comments
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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...
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...
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