Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Delegates in C# Understanding the Nuances of Delegates in C#. C# introduced a keyword called delegate for utilizing such things as function pointers and call backs. The syntax of a delegate can be confusing, but one sure way to get latched on to the syntactical nuances of delegates is to understand a delegate's dual nature -- it exhibits the qualities of both a class and a function. [O'Reilly Network Articles] When I've read a few books about C# last year, delegates were my favorite language feature: it's much more expressive and elegant than what we have in java. 1:06:58 PM    comment []

The Past, Present and Future of Web Services by Uche Ogbuji The Past, Present and Future of Web Services, part 1. The Past, Present and Future of Web Services, part 1 is the first installment of the Web Services Papers, a detailed history and analysis of Web Services by Fourthought, Inc. cofounder Uche Ogbuji. As Web Services moves from the crest of the hype phase towards maturity the author works to impart a fundamental understanding of how the technology evolved, and a look at where it is likely to go. This part traces the history of Web Services from the remarkably sophisticated distributed messaging tec... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] The Past, Present and Future of Web Services, part 2. The Past, Present and Future of Web Services, part 2 is the second installment of the Web Services Papers, a detailed history and analysis of Web Services by Fourthought, Inc. cofounder Uche Ogbuji. Part 2 begins with a look at the consolidation and convergence of the present period. An examination is made of the impatience of "the big players" (large companies) and other Web Services developers with the perceived slow pace of the W3C, the increasing involvement of Organization... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] Uche Ogbuji is a RDF guy if I remember from previous readings. These article are great because they give you a historical perspective on the web service standards evolution, which is important in the middle of all the vendor-propagated hype that surrounds the technology. 12:39:32 PM    comment []

web service startups don't practice what they preach Swallowing your own web services medicine. Dozens of startups are vying for leadership in web services management, but the frontrunners all seem to have ... [Loosely Coupled weblog] Instead of looking for the web services management vendor with the most comprehensive solution, what customers really ought to be doing is seeking out the ones who are most open to interoperability with their competitors. Indeed, to criticize those competitors as "incomplete or overspecialized" could actually be construed as inadvertently praising them while displaying your own lack of empathy for the web services model. This reminds me of Ray Ozzie's excellent Software Platform Dynamics essay. These vendors want to provide the next level platform, and they fail to understand that Web Services are the platform already, and what they have to offer for orchestration and management is just a layered offering on top of it. Web Services does to platform vendors what the open source does to software in general: force them to interoperability and excellence. If you want people to pay for your soft, you now need to be very focused, do one thing very well, and very interoperable.   12:23:10 PM    comment []