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PDC Debrief
Kirill has a great debrief of our Web Services interoperability session at PDC last month. Also, you...
Author: smguest Date: 10/07/2005
Interoperability BOF at PDC - Microsoft with Sun
Interested in interoperability betwen .NET and Java? Then come to tomorrow's (Monday's) BOF session...
Author: smguest Date: 09/11/2005
Creating Word documents on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic
Running IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic or another J2EE application server? Wish you could generate...
Author: smguest Date: 09/10/2005
Graham Glass leaves webMethods
If you haven't heard, Graham Glass, a fellow brit and good friend of mine, has resigned as CTO of...
Author: smguest Date: 07/25/2005
New Version of WSE Trace Tool
I caught up with Benjamin Mitchell at TechEd Europe this year and we chatted briefly about WSE Trace...
Author: smguest Date: 07/20/2005
Comments Not Working
Apologies for those trying to leave comments on my blog - it appears that this functionality has...
Author: smguest Date: 07/16/2005
MTOM Blogcast
For those that didn't get to attend my session at JavaOne or TechEd Europe this year, here is a 5...
Author: smguest Date: 07/14/2005
Screen Clipping in OneNote
I may be the last person to realize this, but OneNote has an awesome screen clipping function. With...
Author: smguest Date: 07/13/2005
Custom Exception Handling in Indigo
One question I frequently get asked is "how do I handle exceptions over Web Services?" If you've...
Author: smguest Date: 07/12/2005
My Favorite Airline
On my way over to TechEd Amsterdam this week I found myself thinking about the best features of...
Author: smguest Date: 07/09/2005
Using WSH Scripts with MSN Desktop Search
- Update - minor correction to @find shortcut posted * I'm a great believer in "re-use but not...
Author: smguest Date: 07/08/2005
IASA Interop City in NYC 7/14
Interested in Interop and based in the NYC area? If so, then come to the IASA Interop City meeting...
Author: smguest Date: 07/03/2005
How to do MTOM Interop
In my JavaOne session yesterday I showed (what I believe to be) the first MTOM Interop demo between...
Author: smguest Date: 06/30/2005
Update from JavaOne
Wow, here I am at JavaOne! It’s kind of odd... I’ve been doing Java development for a number of...
Author: smguest Date: 06/29/2005
Scott's Ultimate List of Developer Tools
I've been tracking Scott Hanselman's list of developer and power user tools for a few months now....
Author: smguest Date: 06/21/2005
Christian releases WSCF 0.5
As Christian mentions in his recent blog post, v0.5 of WSCF (the tool for contract first Web...
Author: smguest Date: 06/07/2005
TechEd Academic Slides
For those in my session today, you can find the slides here!
Author: smguest Date: 06/04/2005
Groktalks at TechEd
Now, these are my kind of sessions! 10 minutes and to the point. Not to be missed!
Author: smguest Date: 06/02/2005
Microsoft ARC (Architecture Resource Center)
Our team has released a new architecture section on microsoft.com. Check it out to see: The latest...
Author: smguest Date: 05/31/2005
Microsoft at JavaOne
As you may have read from TheServerSide's post or through other articles, Microsoft will be...
Author: smguest Date: 05/24/2005
VOIP update
It's been a few weeks now since getting VOIP installed through SunRocket and things are going well....
Author: smguest Date: 05/20/2005
MSN Desktop Search Clip
A few months back I blogged about a clip utility that I'd put together for MSN Desktop Search. This...
Author: smguest Date: 05/20/2005
Channel9 Fun cont'd
Did I also mention that the C9 demo mentioned in my last post shows BEA WebLogic (running on Red Hat...
Author: smguest Date: 05/17/2005
Channel9 Fun
Here's a 34 minute video that Robert, Karsten and I put together for Channel 9. In it I show how we...
Author: smguest Date: 05/17/2005
WS-Security Interop using WSE 2.0 and Sun JWSDP 1.5
An update to my WS-Security interop series got posted today. This article shows WS-Security...
Author: smguest Date: 05/13/2005
VOIP - Episode 2
My SunRocket package turned up today - and so far I'm impressed. My $199 got me one year of service,...
Author: smguest Date: 05/03/2005
System.Net.NetworkInformation in .NET Fx 2.0
One of the things I'm really digging about .NET Fx 2.0 right now is the ability to interrogate...
Author: smguest Date: 04/26/2005
Top Ten Tips for Using Virtual PC 2004
I'm a big fan of using Virtual PC for both developing and prototyping new software - enabling me to...
Author: smguest Date: 04/26/2005
Office Redistributable PIAs available
News from Harry - the Office 2003 PIAs (Primary Interop Assemblies) are now available as a separate,...
Author: smguest Date: 04/19/2005
WS-RM being submitted to OASIS
This is very exciting - today, BEA, IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO announced that they will be submitting...
Author: smguest Date: 04/19/2005
Switched to VOIP?
Ok, it's been too long... After yet another "phone call of despair" to my current telephone provider...
Author: smguest Date: 04/17/2005
Kirill is Blogging!
Kirill is blogging. Here he shares some great information on WS-Security interop between WSE 2.0 SP3...
Author: smguest Date: 04/12/2005
Web Services Interoperability Deck (Localized)
I have a localized version (Japanese) of the Web Services Interoperability deck that I'll be using...
Author: smguest Date: 04/12/2005
Japan Strategic Architect Forum 2005
I am in Odawara, Japan this week at the Microsoft Japan Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) 2005....
Author: smguest Date: 04/12/2005
New Opera Soundwave Technology
I don't normally make much noise about the Opera browser, but this technology looks very...
Author: smguest Date: 04/01/2005
Throw away the mouse...
Check out this story from the BBC showing progress on cursor control via thought/brain activity...
Author: smguest Date: 03/31/2005
JAR Hell
Dino posts an amusing story about "JAR Hell" and battling with 7 copies of the log4j.jar library...
Author: smguest Date: 03/31/2005
Scott drinks the TechEd Kool Aid!
In case you missed these, Scott Hanselman has been featuring a series of cool promo videos for...
Author: smguest Date: 03/30/2005
Rick Ross and JavaLobby
Last week I had the opportunity to meet Rick Ross (founder of JavaLobby) together with many other...
Author: smguest Date: 03/24/2005
Re-registering WMI
I've been having some issues with WMI on my laptop over the past couple of weeks (the symptoms of...
Author: smguest Date: 03/18/2005
Services vs. Objects
Jim Webber from Thoughtworks summarizes the entertaining panel discussion on Services vs. Objects at...
Author: smguest Date: 03/17/2005
When is Microsoft going to support JMS?
Wow, if I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question...! A high number of posts on this...
Author: smguest Date: 03/17/2005
Corrupted Web Casts are Fixed!
The corrupted Web Services Interoperability Web Casts (listed in this post) have now been fixed!...
Author: smguest Date: 03/15/2005
"Getting Things Done" (a.k.a. a DVR for Life!)
As Harry mentioned, about a month ago our group was fortunate to attend a presentation by David...
Author: smguest Date: 03/12/2005
WS-Security Interoperability between Microsoft WSE 2.0 and Systinet Server 5.0 for Java
Here's a new MSDN article and sample code to demonstrate WS-Security interoperability between WSE...
Author: smguest Date: 03/08/2005
Malaysia Architecture Symposium
Yesterday I had the opportunity to host an Architecture Symposium at our Microsoft office in...
Author: smguest Date: 03/08/2005
Asia Tour Update
I'm currently in Malaysia, preparing to present at an Architecture Symposium on Web Services...
Author: smguest Date: 03/05/2005