Mathew Nolton BlogSoftware dementia unleashed...How good are you at spotting a fake smile- December 29, 2004 I found this on the Internet. It tests whether or not you can spot a fake smile. I got 12 out of 20 correct. http:www.bbc.co.uksciencehumanbodymindsurveyssmiles -Mathew Noltonhttp://weblogs.asp.net/mnolton/archive/2004/12/29/343649.aspx WebServices are just an implementation of SOA- December 15, 2004 I am guilty. Too often I equate a WebService and its implementation with the overall definition of SOA. (For example here). In reality it is nothing more then an implementation. A good implementation, but just an implementation. Clemens Vasters gave a nice definition of the tenets of SOA called PEACE. Policy-Based Behavior Negotiation Explicitness of Boundaries Autonomy Contract Exchange It is a nice acronym that attempts to summarize exactly what a service is. Much like ACID does...http://weblogs.asp.net/mnolton/archive/2004/12/15/313909.aspx New Version of XmlPreCompiler Available for Download- December 14, 2004 I updated the XmlPrecompiler tool on my website. It is an enhancement to the version I posted in my blog a couple of weeks ago. http:weblogs.asp.netmnoltonarchive20041201273027.aspx It is available for free download. For those who haven't used it before, I put a user interface on top of a tool Chris Sells wrote called XmlSerializerPreCompiler.Exe and you can download it here: http:www.cybral.comsolutionstools.htm The tool solves the xml serialization problem when you get those nasty...http://weblogs.asp.net/mnolton/archive/2004/12/13/282583.aspx |