I am in Budapest today and I am just done with my Indigo talk (you can find the slides at http://codezone.info under “Talks”), having done it for the 6th time on this tour throughout Europe. After the events Den Haag, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Geneva, I still find Indigo a very difficult topic to talk about on this tour. It’s not about technology or because my talk doesn’t work: It’s about whether people think...
The Microsoft Developer Days 2004 in Den Haag (The Hague) were a great event. Not so much fun was going there (the train from Utrecht was split in two trains on the way and I ended up in Rotterdam instead of Den Haag at first) and getting back (the train from Venlo to Düsseldorf simply didn't go because of "technical difficulties" so I had to take a rather expensive cab home).
I've had lots of interesting discussions and...
I admit: I haven't read anybody's blog in over 1 1/2 months. I haven't posted much. I actually got tired of blogging and reading blogs for a while. Multiple projects under pressure don't go well with blogging for me. I don't even have an RSS reader on this new machine yet (I am going to change that within the hour). There's a lot of stuff to write about and I plan to write lots about the FABRIQ (which...
The evolution of in-memory concept of messages in the managed Microsoft Web Services stack(s) is quite interesting to look at. When you compare the concepts of System.Web.Services (ASMX), Microsoft.Web.Services (WSE) and System.MessageBus (Indigo M4), you'll find that this most fundamental element has undergone some interesting changes and that the Indigo M4 incarnation of "Message" is actually a bit surprising in its design.
ASMX
In the core ASP.NET Web Services model (nicknamed ASMX), the concept...
Don says that BEA's Deputy CTO has missed the cluetrain. I absolutely agree with Don's opinion on this article and what's even worse than the things said is what the article implies. If that is BEA's official position, this is nothing less than an outing that they are passengers in the backseat of a car that is driven by IBM and Microsoft (switching drivers every once in a while) and that they're neither behind the spirit...