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WS-Security and SAML got this year's PC Magazine technical excellence award in the Protocols category. Congratulations to the authors. Cool. (Did I say "draft standards" anywhere here ?) 9:30:36 PM  comments []
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It's not easy to read, it's certainly not written to entertain, but still one of the most important pieces of information on COM+ out there: U.S. Patent 6,422,620. PDF browser at espacenet , image and full-text version (you want to look at the text version first) at USPTO. The patent explains how COM+ works internally -- how stuff gets activated, how policies provide extensibility points, how contexts are built and how context propagation works. The filing of this patent was a long while ago (Aug 17,1998), but the document was only published by the USPTO three months ago and although in XML times it may seem like anything 1998 must be outdated, this stuff describes quite well what's happening inside any copy of Win2K and up. Reminder: It's not a "how to" guide for hooking your own stuff into COM+, but allows you to understand what they've done -- reading this it is also a pretty complicated way to explain to oneself why WS-Coordination is such a relevant WS spec. Related: US6473791, US6301601, US6134594, US6014666, US5958004, US5890161, US6425017 8:07:42 PM comments []
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Excuse me? Life? For hacking? So what penalty does one get who physically breaks into a doctor's office and steals a server hard-drive (along with backups) containing vital medical information? Death?
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Translated into a bit of my world: The server-version of COM+ 1.5 now ships in April 2003. Sigh! 6:02:48 PM comments []
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.... that event is also an event that's releasing me of yet another NDA. It's a "freedom of speech" event. Celebrate! There's tons of cool new things in Everett, but don't look for the next wave of revolutions. Everett comes with very many little improvements here and there, some needed, some nice to have, but no huge new chunks of functionality -- MS simply made a good thing better and that's perfectly cool this time around :) One of the little things that I really like is that in C#, typing "override<space>" inside a class-body will bring up IntelliSense with choices from the base class. Once you select a method to override, IntelliSense will give you a default implementation for the method that calls the base-class. Pretty. 5:58:04 PM comments []
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Architect's Forum, Oslo (Dec. 9-10) is the first stop on the tour. This is the 4th time I am going to be in Norway this year and I am always happy to go back -- Norway is a great country -- it'd be at a "fantastic country" if a beer (in words: one) wouldn't cost at least €7.50. 5:39:43 PM comments []
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Benelux, mark your calendars for Feb 18-19: Developer Days 2003. I will be doing a rerun of my Web Services DevCon talk about how to extend ASP.NET Web Services with custom extensions and I am honored to have been invited to do one of the keynotes, which will, among other things, highlight and (maybe) prove that "Enterprise Services" (COM+ if you're of the old-fashined type) is now more than ever heart and soul of scalable, robust and secure .NET server applications. 5:23:08 PM comments []
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Pretty much 100% of what I am working on right now is covered by some NDA and still keeps me very busy at the same time. Funny, how one starts to feeling "guilty" about not blogging for a while. With the number of people having linked here and/or are visiting frequently, keeping the blog going really is like "customer service" -- in a good sense. However, there's light at the end of this tunnel. I am preparing for a speaking tour throughout Europe which will kick off in Norway next month and will continue through 10 more countries from January to April '03. I'll talk about "service-oriented architectures" and "aspect-oriented programming/metadata-driven architectures" on this tour - as usual there's going to be plenty of "demo-code fallout" from brand-new talks, which I'll post around here in the upcoming weeks. And now for something completely different: http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ ;) 5:16:26 PM comments []
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