Friday, April 05, 2002

AllNurses.com : An "enlightning" discussion of what freaks nurses out. (The reason this caught my eye is because my wife is an RN and almost fainted in an operating room once....) 8:15:30 PM     Salon.com: Free Speech and the Internet - a fish story 8:10:00 PM     Ben Fritz: One Moore Stupid White Man (if I can run a piece by Moore I can run one that takes him to task) 8:06:25 PM     C# Tips: Here is a short 1 pager that explains how you can get verbatim strings processed by the compiler without throwing up. 7:40:43 PM     Charles Cook: "XML-RPC.NET is a class library for implementing XML-RPC Services and clients in the .NET environment."  [Scripting News] 1:20:08 PM     Sam Gentile: A Night with Rotor. (I like the little note that said "compiles under XP and FreeBSD") 1:17:46 PM     VS.NET tidbit: My installation of VS.NET doesn't appear to produce syntax highlighting for C# or VB.NET code that is placed directly into an aspx page. As opposed to being placed into a "code behind" file aspx.cs . HTML code has the proper syntax highlights, but the C# lines do not. Aside from being slightly annoyed I wonder if I need to tweak a setting somewhere 11:16:11 AM     Why does McNealy complain about Sun's participation in web services? In my own research I have found the most approachable tool to build Java web services was not produced by Sun. Rather it is called GLUE and comes from The Mind Electric. Graham Glass, the CEO of this company, has had GLUE on the market for some time already and it seems to do a good job all around. In addition Graham published a small, very educational, book on Glue, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL and even .NET web services. It illustrates how one can consume .NET webservices with Java applications for example. Very helpful stuff. Its called "Web Services - Building Blocks for Distributed Systems" , it is published by Prentice Hall PTR. The ISBN is 013066256-9. One last thought. The following quote appeared on Mind Electric's web site. Check out the website of the company to which the quote is attributed. Pretty cool stuff.  We had never used GLUE before, but the buzz in the development community was that it made Web Services trivial to access in Java. Working on site, we downloaded GLUE, followed the installation instructions, and pointed it to the WSDL URL that was given. Three minutes later we had a simple program accessing the Web Service. GLUE even dealt with the fact that the .NET-generated WSDL didn't describe the return value, by providing a JAXP compliant XML parser. Within a few hours, they had a production quality application, written in Java, sourcing a .Net Web Service, running from their Droplets server. - Louis Franco, Chief Architect, Droplets   9:22:05 AM     Thinkfree.com: A Java based lookalike of MS Office. I wish there were better screenshots, because this is supposed to be quite amazing. It occures to me that one small company in Korea was able to duplicate most of the functionality available in MS Office - which admittedly has a much larger development staff - as a benefit of using Java. Makes you think. 8:19:58 AM     News.Com: Microsoft preps content locks for devices.  [Scripting News] 8:14:15 AM

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