Paolo's NotesBA by day, sleepy coder by night...Free bug tracking offer- January 31, 2004 This is making the rounds... Axosoft is offering bloggers a free 3-user version of their .NET & SQL based OnTime defect tracking software (bug tracking software). For more information, visit http:www.axosoft.comFree3UserOffer.htm.http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/31/65468.aspx The fun is back- January 29, 2004 Well, I'm going on developing infrastructure code for NFFTI (yeah, I know. I'll post more gruesome details later) and I realized a simple fact: I'm having fun. It has been years since I had real fun coding, since Turbo Pascal 5.5 or the early Visual Basic 6 days. Java had never been "fun", just a tool I had to use for my job. And nobody in his clear mind would call PLSQL a fun language or development environment... But C and Visual Studio and (most important) the incredible community around...http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/28/63990.aspx WS POLICY SI TEH WIN!!111- January 22, 2004 In the comments on my previous post, John Bristowe gently offered his help to guide me across the DeadHHHH WSE 2.0 Marshes... Fool! He didn't know what was expecting him! But in the end, he provided me with invaluable knowledge, tips and simply buckets of code big enough to drive into my thick skull a faint glimmer of comprehension about this whole new way to deal with web services. So, what was my initial take, based on a cursory reading of the few web pages I was able to find A procedural...http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/22/61504.aspx WS-I thinghies- January 22, 2004 So we have Nfftiws (the web service that deals with Users). We can call the GetUser method by passing email and password and get all the user's info and... Now wait a second. Passing email and password to a web service Using SOAP On the public internet You have to be quite brave to do that... So, what can we do to avoid snooping, spoofing and general bad things happen to our web service Luckily there's an industry-wide effort going on to attack these issues called WS-I. There are cross...http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/21/61249.aspx Hashtables and Web Services and .NET. What's up with that- January 22, 2004 The UserSet class was supposed to be implemented like this: public class UserSet public NFFTI.User user; public NFFTI.GroupCollection groupCollection; public Hashtable propertyCollection; .... propertyCollection being (quite obviously) a Hashtable member that the Web Service could access by using the name of the property (ex: string fakeID = us.propertyCollection"Fake ID";). That makes...http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/21/61232.aspx NFFTI architecture and experiments- January 22, 2004 The NFFTI administration engine is composed by a set of web services that will be accessed by a web interface and a rich client application. To start experimenting with the overall architecture, I generated a series of Data Access classes (using CodeSmith with my OleDbDALC templates, not yet released) for some tables, namely Users, Groups, UserGroups (cross reference), PropertyTypes and UserProperties (another cross reference table). Once these were generated, I put them in a Data Access Layer..http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/21/61208.aspx And just to finish the day...- January 16, 2004 The mandatory (temporary) logo: Now Playing: Jamiroquai - Emergency On Planet Earthhttp://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/16/59276.aspx NFFTI- January 16, 2004 By the way, the engine upon which the two websites will be built is going to be called NFFTI. Yes, it's an acronym. No, you are not allowed to know what it means, yet :)Now Playing: Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolfhttp://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/16/59275.aspx New year, new impossible project- January 16, 2004 As usual, new year resolutions include -in some way or another- the nebulous objective of making more money. With the objective firm in my mind, I had to start thinking about a way to achieve it. I wouldn't mind getting rid of a chunk of my house mortgage and that requires some serious work to be done. After a couple of seconds of consideration, I selected a couple of web projects I had completed three or four years ago and that were in dire need of some technological updates. I contacted the..http://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/15/59271.aspx XP SP2 woes- January 14, 2004 Finally got my PDC03 DVD set! I put the first DVD in my laptop, let it do its Autorun magic and the list of session tracks gets displayed in IE. Select a track, select a session, click on Start Session and... Unh &8220;Unknown Zone&8221; How do I set my security settings for the Unknown Zonehttp://weblogs.asp.net/pmarcucci/archive/2004/01/14/58628.aspx |