Web Service Software Factory is released,

Enjoy,

/Paul

Monday, July 31, 2006 6:47:46 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [2] | 

Just found Digipede, which I believe is the first Grid computing fx developed in .NET for the Windows platform. [update, see correction below]

Cool stuff! Something new to have a play with.

/Paul 

 [update]

opps totally forgot about the gridbus project, aka Alchemi.  Anyone know of others?

Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:15:42 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [1] | 

Excellent stuff. See Best. Video. Ever.

/Paul

Monday, July 10, 2006 10:38:20 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

» Breaking Changes from Vista Beta 2 to June CTP

» Detailed Change Report Vista Beta 2 to June CTP

/Paul

Monday, July 10, 2006 6:45:15 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

Looks like there is another WCF book in the works.

/Paul

Sunday, July 02, 2006 4:12:18 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

It makes one wonder when you hear that WinFS is to fade into non-existence? 2+ years of mud slinging about the delays with Vista and Longhorn in general, and then the announcement comes that one of the big ticket items that has been lagging for ages is now no longer going to ship as a seperate product!

I especially found the news to be extremely interesting as they were talking about the upcoming release of WinFS Beta 2 at TechEd at few weeks ago? huh?

/Paul

Monday, June 26, 2006 7:11:47 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

.NET Framework 3.0 - June 2006 CTP has just been released, which also includes a RC for Windows Workflow Foundation.

Also, its seems while it's not a final WCF RC1 build it does incorporate all the final programming model tweaks that have been planned since/post Beta2.

/Paul

Monday, June 26, 2006 7:11:15 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

New Book - Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

/Paul

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:50:26 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

Here’s a bit of a mind bender, has the network effect or the power law hit distributed computing? And hit it in an unusual way? And in a way that no one talks about?

The reason I ask, is well ……. have a look at this beast from HP! Does it not change lots of things in distributed computing?  

If you were to buy this beast, what type of distributed computing are doing and how does it match up to the box?

If you don’t buy this beast! Are you doing a totally different type of distributed computing?

Has the network effect on Distributed computing created a two tier system of distributed architectures at its highest level? Is the Web the new enterprise?

More later!

/Paul

Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:00:33 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

The offical press release is here, but note that this is here also and this is an equally important thing in my view.

Is this a tipping point for the 2–way web? Has it now become as important to engage with the grass roots as it is to engage with those that offically/historally spread “the word”? Interesting times ahead, and even more interesting by how MS has choosen to do it?

/Paul

ps

For those that think they are in charge, now is the time for you to stand up and learn/listen! “The world is flat” and you have to localise all the way to “me”.

Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:01:34 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

[via MJF] TechEd Bus Drivers Go on Strike

/Paul

Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:08:23 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

I have been a huge fan of the technology that the folks over at PubSub.com have been creating.

It will be sad to see them fall off the grid (and I hope they survive in some form or other), as I think they have some powerful ideas that will be an important part of the new 2 way Web.

For more details, see http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2006/06/the_rumors_of_o.html

/Paul

ps

Totally agree with Niall Kennedy on this, I think perhaps this not the best discussion to have on a blog, this kind of stuff can bite you in the rear.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:51:05 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

See, http://www.balconytv.com/, recorded live from Dame St.

For all of the videos, see http://www.youtube.com/results?search=balconytv

/Paul

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:29:32 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

Over to Steve Maine for more on the WCF RSS Toolkit.

/Paul

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:31:21 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

New WCF Documentation was released yesterday.

Enjoy!

/Paul

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:02:27 AM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

The Windows Communication Foundation RSS Toolkit was released today.

I guess this will give me something to play with on the flight back from the eBay conference in Vegas.

/Paul

Monday, June 12, 2006 10:36:58 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [1] | 

Microsoft preps IE 7 Beta 3 for August

Maybe its just me, but I’m a little disappointed that the big house has not moved IE on further? Sure its better and a step in the right direction, but it ain’t a huge one? And the ecosystem for plugins around their competitors is far better?

/Paul

Monday, June 12, 2006 9:06:45 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [1] | 

http://www.netfx3.com/

/Paul

Monday, June 12, 2006 5:21:57 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] | 

In case you missed it, WinFx has been renamed to .NET Framework 3.0.

I have mixed views on this, on one level it makes sense as WinFx did make it sound like it was a departure/tangent from.NET Fx but on another level does it convey that .NET 3.0 is built on .NET v2 and extends .NET v2 capabilities? Jason Zander has a good blog entry that covers some of the obvious questions that arises from the renaming. Also Brad Abrams has more details.

It sort of reminds me of the OLE, COM, ActiveX, MTS, COM+ days? Does anyone remember ASP+?

Also, “InfoCard” has had the MS marketing scrubbers at it, and its now called Windows CardSpace (WCS). 

Maybe its just me and 20/20 hindsight, but won’t all of this had been easier if the names were thought thru in the first place? Especially around the time that it was decided that WPF/Avalon was to be down streamed to XP and W2K3! Throwing all of these TLA’s and names around just causes confusion.

/Paul

Monday, June 12, 2006 5:21:53 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [1] | 

I always enjoy Steve Gillmors comments/observations on the industry and its always interesting and thought provoking to hear his take on how attention data will evolve in the industry at large.

See  Memo to Bill Gates

/Paul

Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:55:43 PM UTC |  | Disclaimer | Comments [0] |