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webMethods Integration World - San Diego
On Wednesday I attended webMethods Integration World in San Diego, where I spoke on a panel...
Author: smguest Date: 11/11/2004
Contract First Web Services Interoperability with IBM WebSphere
Dino Chiesa and team release a new article on MSDN covering Contract First interoperability with IBM...
Author: smguest Date: 11/11/2004
Interop Bloggers!
A couple of discovered blogs with Interop in mind: Dino’s DotNetInterop blog Chris Green’s...
Author: smguest Date: 11/11/2004
Updated Web Services Architecture Article
Felipe, Chris and Don release v2.0 of their Web Service Architecture and Its Specifications...
Author: smguest Date: 11/02/2004
Do you have what it takes to write for MSDN?
This week sees a new article on the MSDN Web Services Interoperability page: Improving Web Service...
Author: smguest Date: 10/27/2004
WseTrace 1.0.5
I have now uploaded a new version of WseTrace to a GotDotNet workspace. For those that haven't seen...
Author: smguest Date: 10/13/2004
Visit the New Web Services Interoperability Home!
Today sees the launch of a new home on MSDN for Web Services Interoperability and Integration. This...
Author: smguest Date: 09/30/2004
Reading (in between feeds!)
For those that haven't heard, I became a father on Monday 20th September. Everything is going well,...
Author: smguest Date: 09/22/2004
Command Line Shortcuts
Coming from a UNIX background, I'm a huge fan of keyboard and command line shortcuts. Anyone that...
Author: smguest Date: 09/10/2004
SOAP over UDP
SOAP over UDP specification has been posted on MSDN. I'm a keen proponent of Web Services over other...
Author: smguest Date: 09/08/2004
Christian on Contract-First Development
Christian blogs about WsContractFirst v0.3, a new tool that generates Web Service code from an...
Author: smguest Date: 08/30/2004
WSE 2.0 Trace Tool
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been searching for tools to display trace output for WSE 2.0. Many...
Author: smguest Date: 08/19/2004
Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability
I thought it might be fun to put together a "Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability" -...
Author: smguest Date: 08/12/2004
soap.mqseries:// sample
When presenting Web Services and interoperability, I like to emphasize how Web Services are not tied...
Author: smguest Date: 07/15/2004
Jorgen on our Web Services Protocol Workshops
You may have heard how 'Microsoft is working with other vendors' on upcoming Web Services...
Author: smguest Date: 07/14/2004
Interoperability Architecture Section in July DDJ
Ok, admit it... Who went to JavaOne this year? If you did, and you still have your bag of goodies to...
Author: smguest Date: 07/12/2004
MSDN Web Cast this morning!
Don't forget to join Mauro, John, Drew and I in this morning's Interoperability with Web Services...
Author: smguest Date: 07/12/2004
MSDN Web Cast
For those that may have missed it, I presented a Web Cast this morning on Web Services...
Author: smguest Date: 07/06/2004
Shared Memory Channel cont'd
For those interested in the last post on using a .NET Remoting shared memory channel, Wayne from...
Author: smguest Date: 06/24/2004
JNBridge Pro 2.1 Released
For those looking to interoperate between .NET and Java using a .NET Remoting bridge, you may want...
Author: smguest Date: 06/23/2004
Interoperability and Integration using Web Services
More and more, I seem to be getting asked this question: 'Hey Simon, I have an existing application...
Author: smguest Date: 06/17/2004
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Since returning from TechEd 2004 in San Diego, I've been playing around with Windows XP Media Center...
Author: smguest Date: 06/10/2004
Rob Mensching talks about WiX and SourceForge
I emailed Rob Mensching (responsible for Wix on SourceForge) some questions about Microsoft, the WiX...
Author: smguest Date: 06/10/2004
Photos from TechEd
Check out the photos that I snapped today. Here is a picture of the Java interop booth. Kevin...
Author: smguest Date: 05/27/2004
WIN325 - Microsoft and Interoperability
I'm exhausted. I have just completed WIN325 - Microsoft and Interoperability, which was great fun,...
Author: smguest Date: 05/27/2004
DEVC35 - Web Services Interoperability
I have just finished presenting cabana session DEVC35 at TechEd. Despite an early start and a party...
Author: smguest Date: 05/27/2004
Arrived at TechEd
I finally made it to TechEd 2004 shortly after 3pm this afternoon. Although it feels like I've...
Author: smguest Date: 05/26/2004
TechEd 2004 - Booth #21
Interested in Java and/or interoperability? Attending TechEd this year? If so, head across to Booth...
Author: smguest Date: 05/25/2004
TechEd 2004 - Day 1
I don't arrive in San Diego until Wednesday, but I guess there's nothing to stop me blogging between...
Author: smguest Date: 05/24/2004
Emergence and SOA
I've just finished reading this book: Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and...
Author: smguest Date: 05/18/2004
WS Interoperability Tip of the Week. What's wrong with this?
So, what was wrong with the approach in the last post? Firstly, we started by creating the method...
Author: smguest Date: 05/18/2004
WS Interoperability Tip of the Week. What's wrong with this?
This week's tip is in two parts. First comes the question: Scenario: You are creating your first Web...
Author: smguest Date: 05/17/2004
Annoying Web Observation of the Week. Click to Enlarge.
Ok, this happens far too frequently for me: I'm shopping for stuff on the Web. I click on a product....
Author: smguest Date: 05/17/2004
Web Services, Web services or web services?
I'm using the word 'Web Services' in the middle of a sentence... I've found the capitalization seems...
Author: smguest Date: 05/07/2004
WS Interoperability Tip of the Week. Null dates.
One Web services interoperability issue that I have been investigating recently has to do with using...
Author: smguest Date: 05/07/2004
Race against the Microsoft Architects!
Want to be in on some pre-Tech Ed fun this year? If so, wanna come and race the Microsoft...
Author: smguest Date: 05/03/2004
Going to TechEd? Meet me for breakfast!
Are you going to Tech-Ed 2004 in San Diego? If you are, and want to talk 'Web Services...
Author: smguest Date: 04/30/2004
What is the Microsoft Architecture Center?
Never heard of the Microsoft Architecture Center? Consider it your one-stop resource for articles...
Author: smguest Date: 04/30/2004
WS-What?
Ever wondered what WS-ActiveProfile and WS-SecureConversation are? Here is a nice wiki-based...
Author: smguest Date: 04/28/2004
Ryan checks out my book...
Ryan Storgaard checks out my book in his blog...
Author: smguest Date: 04/20/2004
XBox in Japan
Just in case you didn't think the XBox was gaining popularity in Japan... Here's a line of people...
Author: smguest Date: 04/15/2004
MSDN Architecture Center now available as RSS Feed
Keep up with the latest architectural guidance and content from Microsoft by subscribing to the MSDN...
Author: smguest Date: 04/15/2004
Portable Devices: Dedicated or Multi-purpose?
I’ve been reading a few articles over the past few weeks about dedicated vs. multi-purpose...
Author: smguest Date: 04/11/2004
Demo Gods
When faced with delivering presentations, I believe we are all subject to a supernatural experience...
Author: smguest Date: 04/09/2004
DevelopMentor’s Achieving Platform Interoperability: .NET and Java
If you haven't seen this already (and you are interested in learning more about .NET and Java/J2EE...
Author: smguest Date: 03/29/2004
TechEd 2004 (San Diego, May 23rd - 28th)
TechEd 2004 is in San Diego (May 23rd - 28th) and the agenda has recently been posted to the site....
Author: smguest Date: 03/25/2004
Pat is blogging
If you haven't heard from Harry's blog, Pat Helland (a colleague in my team) is now blogging! Way to...
Author: smguest Date: 03/13/2004
Long time, no blog...
Yes, I admit it: It's been a long time since I blogged. Part of the reason for this has been the...
Author: smguest Date: 03/13/2004
Changing the font size in VS.NET
One of the repetitive tasks I always find myself doing for presentations and demos is adjusting the...
Author: smguest Date: 02/24/2004