Blue Badge
Yes, all the rumors are true. I am moving from the consumer side of things to the builder side of things. From February 1st, 2006 I will be a “blue badge” and work for Microsoft as a Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation. The guys convinced me that it would be a good idea to make the move.
I’ve been spending so much time talking about and writing extensions...
Teaching Indigo to do REST/POX, Part 2
In the first part of this series, I gave you a little introduction to REST/POX in contrast to SOAP and also explained some of the differences in how incoming requests are dispatched. Now I’ll start digging into how we can teach Indigo a RESTish dispatch mechanism that dispatches based on the HTTP method and by matching on the URI against a suffix pattern. office" />
...Teaching Indigo to do REST/POX, Part 1
A not so long time ago in a land far away…
A little bit more than half a year ago I got invited to a meeting at Microsoft in Redmond and discussed with Steve Swartz, Yasser Shohoud and Eugene Osovetsky how to implement POX and REST support for Indigo. You could also say that Steve dragged me into the meeting, since I happened to be on campus anyways and was burning some time...
I am back
Back to blogland. Looking back at this year, i have hardly blogged at all. Partly because I wad too busy and partly because I just had better things to do with my free time. Anyways, in the upcoming weeks I'll write about the things that I've been quietly building in the past half year or so and also dig into and publish stuff from my code archive where I still have some gems laying around that should really...
Web 2.0 yaddayadda AJAX yaddayadda Profit!(?)
Joe McKendrick at ZDNet cites Joel Spolsky and his "Web 2.0" rant.
What is particularly interesting about this new hype-term that this is the first technology term that describes nothing at all about technology. It rather seems to describe that a suffiently large, critical mass of people has grasped a sufficiently broad set of technologies (most of which have been available for the past 4-5 years) for DHTML and XML to actually go mainstream. And clearly contributing to that is...