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 Friday, February 28, 2003

I've seen the future and it will be.

InfoPath may become for XML, what the Basic language was and is for binary stuff. 

Thinking that technical knowledge about all the odd stuff around angle brackets and infosets alone will remain to be a sufficient foundation for a career or even a whole business may be as fatal as thinking in the 1980's that your x86 assembly skills will be enough to support your family for the next 30 years. It works for a few, it won't work for most. Ladies and Gents, it seems like XML is growing up and is getting all dressed up for prime time -- get over it.

Friday, February 28, 2003 12:07:11 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

 Thursday, February 27, 2003

My dinner with Don.

I had a fantastic dinner with Don and Steve Swartz (Steve should start a blog so I can finally link to him and so that he can share his infinite wisdom; folks, you don't know what you're missing). Great Indian food and surprisingly good beer -- and we Germans have pretty high standards.

We were talking lots about (multidimensional!) XML, Web services moving forward and on the way home in the car, we've discussed a sufficient set of requirements for the metadata you need to bind to an XML Web service that is reliable, secure (and all the other WS-I goo). Result: You need a way to describe the message body and you need a way to describe the QoS and security features. (Mildly) annotated XSD covers the first, WS-Policy covers the second. Where does that leave WSDL?

Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:17:10 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

 Friday, February 21, 2003

Sun FUD against IBM: Now, here's an interesting quote from InfoWorld on Sun's upcoming Web services stack: "When you buy it from Sun, you'll be able to buy it all at one price, install it all [for] one price, and have blueprints and guidance to install it yourself," Bauhaus [Sun vice president of Java Web Services] said. This is unlike IBM's Web services products, which require purchasing integration services from IBM Global Services, Bauhaus contended.

100% pure comedy (too bad that "comedy" doesn't start with a "J") 

Friday, February 21, 2003 8:42:04 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

 Wednesday, February 19, 2003
BusyBusyBusy (I am). For those with more time and some curiosity for things that mattered (mostly) in the past: check out Microsoft's newly released docs on NDR. ;)
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:13:03 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

 Saturday, February 08, 2003
Airport WLAN (no, not Apple). Greetings from Dubai airport. They've got a wireless LAN here; one more airport to add to the "we like that very much" list. Good connectivity and a freebie - at least in the lounge.
Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:38:45 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

 Friday, February 07, 2003
A picture named AOPinExcel.JPG

Ingo seems very happy about me announcing this, because he's been waiting impatiently for me to do that since we two had a little "backroom demo" session at a conference last November.

Status report: The GPF problem that had been bugging me (and the code) for three weeks has been solved and what I before suspected to be a GC bug turned out to be something else. All aspects are properly triggered and, more importantly, exceptions are properly relayed on the way back for all relevant scenarios in managed-to-managed (inproc, outproc, outproc/interop for SecureMethod).

Testing is underway for unmanaged-to-managed. The latter is actually the most significant difference to whatever can be done with the managed context. These attributes are actually working for unmanaged (read: COM) clients as can be seen in Excel's VBA stopping on an aspect-fired exception in this screenshot.

Still, stability is still an issue under some circumstances and there seem to be a couple of memory leaks deep down in the guts.

(By the way, Ingo asks over there, why I have a stateful variable in the code he's quoting. Answer, because I don't set the completion flag, state is held. SCs aren't uncontrollably stateless. Ah, and, if that variable was public, you could even put an aspect on it and I'll intercept that call as well.)

Friday, February 07, 2003 6:46:07 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

Crazy Travel Times. I am going to be traveling almost every weekday and some weekends until June (!). There are a few weekdays sprinkled across my schedule that I'll take off at home, but all in all, my schedule is entirely packed. There's even stretches of two or three weeks where I'll be home or near home only long enough to switch suitcases.

But not only for me, but also for Patricia, who's working at her cast iron engineering family business (GVA Krefeld) travel time starts tomorrow. They're in a serious hardware business. (The "slag pot" on the right is one of their products. Everything less than 10 metric tons of cast steel seems to be peanuts for them.)

She's going on once-around-the-world trip to South and North America, Oceania and SE Asia. And, of course, our trips in the next 3-4 months will overlap in a way that sometimes one of us will be just gone when the other comes back. Still, we shouldn't be complaining, it's still very exciting to travel!

Friday, February 07, 2003 5:36:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0] - Trackback

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