Ok, I’m going to barge in on this discussion that Clemens kicked off.  Hope no one minds.  :-)  First, my general opinion is that if you need distributed transactions, object pooling, or a consolid...

If anyone is interested, the Valvoline Runoffs are being televised on the Speed Channel.  The Spec Racer Ford race (that’s mine) will be this Sunday morning, 11/24, at 12pm eastern / 9am pacific.  ...

Is WSDL too hard?  Cont’d. A couple of comments from Simon and Clemens: Is WSDL too hard?. In response to Greg Reinacker’s comments I didn’t say WSDL is hard, I said its cumbersome and unprodu...

A while back, Jon Udell and Mark Baker were discussing addressibility and interface uniformity.  Mark said: getSunwStockQuoteRealtime() getIbmStockQuoteDelayed() The problem with these is ob...

Modeling without WSDL. Mark Ericson has some thoughts on Interface design with WSDL, I agree with him, WSDL is far to cumbersome to work with by hand, the only way to be remotely productive is to u...

I’d like to extend a welcome to my good friend Sean Varley, who has just started a weblog.  Sean’s company does electronics and embedded systems engineering and consulting. It’s interesting to rea...

Just in case you weren’t aware…Don Box is scheduled to give a webcast this afternoon, discussing the above web service protocols.  Details and free registration are here.

Scott Short has an article on importing external schemas into your WSDL in the latest MSDN magazine. The text isn’t online yet, but you can download the code, which is the important part. The idea ...

Wow, my post on the pet shop application has generated quite a few comments.  I wanted to clear up a couple of things, and make a couple of comments.  1. I personally believe you can write perform...

I don’t just mean GUI design - I mean the down-and-dirty work with Windows user interface controls.  I had almost forgotten. 95% of my work today is server-side code, and most of that directly rel...