Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development & Alien Abductions

Montag, 2. Juni 2003

"Power Lunch with Don Box and Friends"

As said before, I got invited to a fun lunch panel discussion with Don, Yasser Shohoud, and Steve Swartz. We chatted about 45 minutes about things we all like and dislike about the .NET Framework as it ships today, about XML and SOAP standards, how to build Web Services "right" in .NET, about the unfortunate split between infrastructures for Remoting, Enterprise Services and ASMX and plenty other little things.

Quote of the day:

Don: "So, Steve, is COM dead?"
Steve: "There's a time when you are growing up and everything is exciting at the time. There's always new things, new stuff to look at, it's all cool. And then at some point you're grown up and it's not that you die when you're a grownup, right? So, COM is a grownup now. It just lives."

1:50:47 PM

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Ping! .... from TechEd 2003 Dallas

I haven't been blogging for more than two weeks now because of (a) being very busy on the road and (b) being sick all last week. After 8 or so weeks on the road, my body just went on strike and punished me for all the stress in many horrible ways.

Anyways, I am back online now, sitting in the speaker's lounge at TechEd Dallas checking some email, working on the samples for Thursday (details on that later) and just got invited by Don to participate in the "Web Services Roundtable: Power Lunch with Don Box and Friends" session that's at 12:15pm in the Arena. I don't know what's on the agenda, but Don said I should just come up. I am sure it's going to be fun.

10:27:23 AM

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