Monday, May 20, 2002

I just saw this link on Peter's site. Markus, the subject if the link has a design pattern that goes into some detail about frameworks - Java, NET, CORBA etc. Good German work :-) 7:20:50 PM     Alan Cox, one of the leads of Linux: "Things like XML-RPC, SOAP and the stuff on top of them are designed to 'interwork through firewalls'. A better phrase would be 'go through the firewall like a knife through butter in a way that prevents the companies involved monitoring the activity.'"  [Scripting News] Actually here is a more complete quote : "...The more dangerous parts of all this are not so much .NET but chunks of the model that not only the .NET product and the Java standards rely on. Things like xmlrpc, soap and the stuff on top of them are designed to "interwork through firewalls". A better phrase would be "go through the firewall like a knife through butter in a way that prevents the companies involved monitoring the activity". When all you have is an encrypted SSL session how are you going to figure out if its a legitimate bit of ebusiness with a related company or someone in your company uploading your entire company customer database? .." [This is tremendously interesting stuff to me for two reasons. I just finished research for a security related article. And secondly, in a recent conversation with a dotcom company whose name I can't publish, I asked the lead guru what security measures he is undertaking to protect his web services. The answer was 'SSL' . And thats were Cox comes in. Recent events (9-11 etc.) have underscored the need for security monitoring of network activities. SSL doesn't appear to accomodate that model. In a semi-ideal scenario a company ought to be able to deploy a monitoring tool and be reasonably assured that ALL its network traffic can be checked, including the traffic generated by web service. ] 11:10:48 AM     Patrick Logan: "As MSFT moves more into analysis and CRM, it will be less capable but more affordable and easier to choose than its competitors." Yep -  that is very good possibility. Although, it might not be an outright guarantee. I wonder if MS has made any inroads in the Content Management arena since entering it what about a year ago now? I suppose you can't draw a straight line analogy between CM and CRM, its just something that crossed my mind when thinking of MS going into new markets. But yes Patrick is right, the price point and a slew of secondary considerations frequently wins out over straight technical excellence. 10:53:37 AM     Sam says: "Well, ADO.NET is always disconnected by default, unlike ADO.NET. Besides that point and being in VB.NET-), Francesco is a smart guy and this is a great chapter on ADO.NET DataSets. If you have not used them, you should! They are extremely powerful." You know, by today's standards I'm an "old school" database guy. I cut my teeth on dBASE. So I've seen a lot of technology come and go. With that in mind, I was very excited about native access to SQL Server via the DataReader and SQLClient. For some reason, while Datasets seem very interesting, I'm not thrilled with having such a layer in my app. Of course I need to temper this statement with two caveats: 1) I haven't had much coffee this morning and 2) Datasets appear to work marvelously in MS's concepts of web services. (And I like the concept of strongly typed datasets). Between having been burned several times by MS's latest and greatest in data access technologies (remember RDO?)  and some of the potential uses for Datasets, I'm cautiously optimistic. 8:16:01 AM     NY Times: United Airlines web site sold tickets for $5 each. 8:07:42 AM

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