Jesse Ezell Blog.NET and Other Interesting StuffCue the Scoble Tears- February 29, 2008 "Cue Scoble tears. This is one hell of a technology from Microsoft Research that I think will have a huge impact on how amateurs and hobbyists write music. The technology and software prototype is called MySong. In a nutshell, the software records your singing (preferably in tune) through a microphone, and it systematically generates an instrumental accompaniment for your song. The quality is even comparable with a professional accompanist, not to mention the cost and time involved." 1...http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/02/29/cue-the-scobel-tears.aspx Abstraction: A Condom for Your Code- February 27, 2008 "Why should you put a 10 foot pole between yourself and technology Well, because Microsoft (or insert vendor of your choice here - theyre all equally guilty of this) tend to deprecate (as in kill) the technology they evangelised just last yearmonthweek. Microsoft Sql Server Notification Services are the latest victim. I hope you dont have any application code tied to that technology." 1 Here is yet another example of why you need proper abstraction. When designing your application's layers,...http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/02/27/abstraction-a-condom-for-your-code.aspx Using WCF endpoints with SQL Reporting Services- February 21, 2008 Consuming WCF endpointpoints with SQL Reporting Services can be difficult. Most of this difficulty is for two reasons: 1) SQL Reporting Services XML and web services support is slightly better than a piece of crap. 2) Documentation for the XML query provider in SQL Reporting Services blows. One of the big problems with SSRS is that you can't just point it to a WSDL document and have it generate a proxy. In fact, the way you use web service data is virtually the same as querying off a static XML.http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/02/21/using-wcf-endpoints-with-sql-reporting-se... XNA on Zune and X-Box Live- February 21, 2008 Two pieces of news today in the "damn that's cool" category. First, Microsoft has announced that you will now be able to use XNA to create games that run on Zune. Second, XBox live will have a "XBox Live Community Games" section where you can upload your own games for purchase download etc. Both of these are huge. 1 http:blogs.msdn.comjohanarchive20080221games-on-the-zune.aspx 2 http:blogs.msdn.comxnaarchive20080220announcing-xbox-live-community-games.aspxhttp://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/02/21/xna-on-zune-and-x-box-live.aspx WCF: Getting ServiceAuthorizationManager and IAuthorizationPolicy to Work Together Properly- February 8, 2008 When using WCF, you may want to integrate your security model into your application using claim based security. At this point, you will come across ServiceAuthorizationManager, which is responsible for evaluating policy statements to determine if the user is authorized to perform the requested operation. There is an interface, IAuthorizationPolicy, which you can implement to add your own claims to be evaluated by your ServiceAuthorizationManager implementation... there is one problem with this..http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/02/08/wcf-getting-serviceauthorizationmanager-a... |