Well, that sort of defeats the whole idea behind content generation and publishing, doesn’t it? The whole power of Radio is that it’s “desktop publishing”. Your server doesn’t need to be anything e...

Seriously considering writing my own blogging tool as none of the ones that exist meet my stringent requirements: Open Source Produces only valid XHTML .Net - well, not mandatory, b...

It’s an article of faith right now in the web services realm that security is the major roadblock. We’re all sitting around drumming our fingers on the table, the story line goes, just waiting for ...

Clemens Vasters announced the newtelligence Web Service Extensions for ASP.NET. From the announcement: “…experimental implementation for WS-Security’s Kerberos and Username Authentication”. [Peter ...

A Santa Monica elementary school principal recently banned tag, saying the game can only be played under the strict supervision of physical education teachers and not at all during the lunch hour r...

After my recent post on X++, I got a reply from Kimanzi Mati (the author of X++) with some interesting comments.  I have posted this reply in its entirety here, and I wanted to address a couple of ...

Good news for WS_SECURITY. Sun switches gears on security. Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign submit a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backin...

A while ago I preached a bit about using transport-based authentication with web services, rather than custom header-based mechanisms.  Well, after a number of requests, I’ve posted a sample of usi...

.NET HTTP Module - sample code In my last mini-article on web services security, I talked a bit about using HTTP authentication mechanisms for web services.  I pointed out that it is not necessary...

x++: The World’s First Full XML-Based Programming Language Released!. Top XML Jun 24 2002 5:37PM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news] It is…well…something I would never have suspected seeing.  ...