The Right Car Mounting problems with the BMW 7 Series. Maybe one day people will realize how overrated the Beemer really is. Nice car for the most part but definetly much to overhyped. Don’t be...

UDDI - content itself, or directory? […] The problem is that we’ve placed UDDI at the wrong point in the protocol stack. It’s not the equivalent of a Google; it’s the equivalent of the Web. UDD...

WS-Security Putting credentials in a SOAP header without an ecrypted channel is a waste of time, but if you have an encrypted channel, you might as well use the channel’s authentication support...

I’ve updated the web services security story with some input from Justin Rudd.

REST vs. SOAP… Each of these battles has the sides well dug in, though the resistance from the non-adopters seems to be stronger than the push from the early adopters. [Gordon Weakliem] Careful...

This widely published article basically claims that Web Services will be subject to DOS attacks and claims “UDDI will help your attacker to find any services that have been published within the net...

Computer Science Education I had an email exchange recently with a fairly popular CTO and author. His position is the university computer science department should be a training ground for the ...

Ok, I couldn’t stand it any more.  Why does every article I read on this subject lately advocate using custom SOAP headers to transmit user credentials for web services?  I just don’t get it.  I st...

Fire in Colorado - yikes Fire forces 4,000 to evacuate [USA Today : Front Page] That fire is here in Colorado. They’ve closed down a 50+ mile stretch of I-70, which is undoubtedly one of the...

Thanks for the welcome, Brad.  And welcome Drew Marsh; if you frequent the .NET mailing lists, you feel like you know him even if you don’t.  ;-)