Messaging rules.
I haven't blogged or even read blogs for almost two weeks. Too much time on the road. Reading (UK), Zürich, Hannover, Bled (Slovenia), Amsterdam, Budapest. Next week it's Bad Ems and then it'll be Athens, Madrid and Milano in the following two weeks.
Anyways... I find it very interesting that more and more people are seeing the light in regards to the true potential of Web Services (could someone please drop the...
AOP demo.
MS Finland put up a (long, 30min.) Windows Media 9 series stream of the demo that I did in my AOP talk over in Helsinki. And Matt Powell from MSDN is so nice to mention the things I demo there in his MSDN TV episode on SoapExtensionReflectors/Importers. My demo code is here.
W3C Web Services Description Group makes a good move.
While they are yet not as far as to they drop the ball, go home and call WSDL dead ;) but there's a noteworthy action item on the activity's task list as per their most recent teleconf call: "2003-03-13: Don [presumably Don Mullen from TIBCO and not Don Box from Microsoft] will write a proposal for annotating schema with part information.", which is an action item apparently...
The bigger language problem
C#? C++? VB? Java? English! Whenever I speak at conferences across Europe (right now that's about twice a week), every other attendee's first comment when talking to me after any speech will not be a technical one. Instead they say "your English is fantastic". People seem indeed surprised s'at mei englesh iss not vot s'ey vutt expeckt.
I don't think that it is a "fantastic skill", but rather just part of doing my job right. Having reasonable control of...
Sam has a new essay on nouns vs. verbs. Thank you, Sam. All roads lead to Rome. Rome doesn’t care. ;)