Congratulations to Sandra Bullock for being E! Online’s most eligible bachelorette.  I’m posting this in the hopes that maybe she’ll read this, think I must be the nicest guy ever, and call me.  :-)And really, I think Britney Spears got robbed – #22?  Britney, you can call too.Sorry for the off-topic ramble…but we can’t talk [...]

I was working with Greg’s authentication samples at work and I discovered a very irritating behavior with IIS on XP Professional. It seems that Digest Authentication is on by default, and the management UI doesn’t allow you to shut it off. After some experimentation (and Greg’s suggestion), I determined that you can use the IIS [...]

I know we’ve all been waiting for this!  Microsoft’s .NET class libraries for implementation of WS-Security, WS-Routing, DIME, and WS-Attachments.

“There is very little reason for folks to quibble over programming models when the choice is rpc/enc or rpc/lit, but the difference between doc and rpc is clear, it’s the choice between send(document) vs someOperation(parameters[]).  The programming model does matter.” [snellspace]I disagree there’s a difference between doc and rpc. Your comment shows that you’re paying [...]

So I’m sitting here thinking about What makes a Great Developer. Now just to poke a bit of fun ;-) I quote – “A lean company needs to make sure that they hire only the most productive, self-directed, and creative development staff possible”. I’m wondering, does a company ever state “Let’s hire the least productive, [...]

An answer (only partially quoted here) from Justin (red emphasis is mine):That is the long answer – the short answer is I don’t know that I WANT a tolerant web service. I’m just seeing what they have to offer. Now one place that I have been using a lot of tolerant web services is when [...]

Don talks about The dark side of tolerance. While there is no standard that I know of, I have been using a homegrown header for warning users of bad XML. I’ve built some fairly tolerant web services in the past few months for my own research. For example, I allow you to post data as [...]

I had Groove running on my notebook and I brought it up a few times to do things. I collaborate with some clients and people with Groove, keeping documents and discussions in sync. I also use it as a better Briefcase. And invariably, the comments were like “Wow, that’s cool! I could manage my distributed [...]

Time for a Friday Five, since it’s about cars (something I love more than software development!).  [The .NET Guy]I’m with you – completely a car guy.  My answers:1. Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it? Well, my fun, non-daily-driver is a 1989 Ferrari 348.  Very impractical, but oh so [...]

The original question is “When you model data access, does the model represent the data and its relationships, or does it represent the specific queries you know you wish to make?” The first thing I would like to state is I don’t like to think of my data access in terms of queries. I think [...]