Roger Sessions writes about WS-Transactions in his ObjectWatch news letter and the article shocks me a bit. First, his “Shootout at the Transaction Corral” has a pretty confusing lead-in story for a story about transactions. It starts with how to get breakfast from two places at the same time and how that is a real life coordinated transaction – it may be so, but why make a “real life analogy” if that by itself is so far fatched...
Richard Stallman and myself are on the same page. That’s very rare and very funny. At least to me.
Preparing for the Web Services DevCon today. I just wrote a little C# project wizard for VS.NET that’s the giveaway with my talk: “ASP.NET Soap Extension” creates a SOAP extension complete with format extension (WSDL annotation), WSDL importer (client), WSDL reflector (server), project installer (for use with MSI) and a “headers.xsd” to contain the header schema. The resulting projects don’t do much (of course) but it a few hundred code lines of work already done and the tricky...
I restored a backup of my Radio files after rebuilding the machine (needed to be done). I was thinking everything is XML based and that I could simply restore all files…. Doesn’t seem to be that way. I don’t have the time to look at this closely now, but it is disturbing that apparently most things were lost….