Fighting Windmills. Yesterday, Brussels was another stop of the ongoing Microsoft EMEA Architect's tour. Going through the customer feedback on my "Service Oriented Architectures" talk I once again realized that there's a lot more work to do in terms of educating people about the significance of XML. One of the core messages of my talk is that the XML InfoSet is the focus of integration.
The comment that caught my attention was stating that I were completely...
Patch Your SQL Servers!. As John has already reminded people, don’t forget to patch your SQL Servers, paricuraly on laptops! As long as programmers still create buffer overruns, its important to apply all patches (well, its important to keep current with all OS patches). The security fix is rolled up in the SQL Server 2000 SP3, which you should install if you have SQL Server 2000. Otherwise, read about and install these patches. [Sam Gentile’s...
A morning for reliable messaging. I got online this morning and close to nothing worked. I don't know whether today is "international router config day" It's "unpatched SQL Server exploit fest" or something, but and there's suspiciously many IP destinations I can't reach from where I am and tracert shows loops or broken routes at random places outside the Deutsche Telekom network (that's where my DSL is hooked up to). So, at first sight, it...
Radio discipline! I am in a "heavy coding" phase with about 5 projects (some serious, some play) going on concurrently. So, reminder to self, I shouldn't blog. My favorite "play" project is a pretty radical extension for Enterprise Services and COM+ - it's actually more a "new feature set" than a tool or wrapper. The last time I've written code based on analyzing hex-dumps was about 8 years ago; and now again. The only reason that...