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March 2002 - Posts

Dave wonders: "Ingo Rammer spotted
Dave wonders: "Ingo Rammer spotted another .NET developer who started a weblog. Something's going on here." For clarification, yesterday's .NET bloggers aren't from Microsoft. They are just somewhat "well known" in the .NET community due to their great Read More
posted Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:40 AM (Comments Off)

And it's going on ...
And it's going on ... yet another .NETter who got a weblog. Welcome Tomas! Read More
posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:54 PM (Comments Off)

Ok. Now I read a
Ok. Now I read a little bit more of Web Services/SOAP and CORBA. It seems that the author tries to compare them for classic distributed applications (like customer management applications in a corporate LAN). In this case he is probably right that Read More
posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:50 AM (Comments Off)

Web Services/SOAP and CORBA: This
Web Services/SOAP and CORBA: This paper is written from a CORBA point of view and the author tries to trash Web Services. I have to admit that I did not yet read the whole thing but I found one interesting bit: In section nine, the author talks Read More
posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:37 AM (Comments Off)

Sam Gentile seems to like Radio: Wow!
Sam Gentile seems to like Radio: Wow! 5 minutes to up and running! Ingo Rammer, you are right. This is much easier! Read More
posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:25 AM (Comments Off)

Another .NETter is about to
Another .NETter is about to start a WebLog. Welcome Sam! And by the way, you really should look into using Radio, it's just way more comfortable. Read More
posted Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:29 AM (Comments Off)

Ok. I figured out how
Ok. I figured out how to persuade Radio Userland to render the latest day's posts in a form that can be included directly on the main page of http://www.dotnetremoting.cc. If anyone's interested how this works, just tell me and I'll write a short summary Read More
posted Friday, March 29, 2002 11:46 PM (Comments Off)

Gartner.com, 3/25, Note FT-15-9819: Gartner
Gartner.com, 3/25, Note FT-15-9819: Gartner Warns Oracle Customers to Check License Fees. It seems as if some Oracle salespeople charged their customers a little too much. Just think about what would have happened if Microsoft did things like Read More
posted Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:00 PM (Comments Off)

[CNET] Hasso Plattner, co-chairman of
[CNET] Hasso Plattner, co-chairman of SAP says "This industry will not survive in the next 20 years with applications built by a few big companies," Plattner said during his keynote speech. "This industry will only survive if there is a community Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:44 PM (Comments Off)

Just for your information, a Rotor
Just for your information, a Rotor mailing list can be found at http://discuss.develop.com/dotnet-rotor.html. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:02 PM (Comments Off)

Using Lynx to blog ...
Some people recently discussed about the security issues of running Radio (or any other desktop webserver) on a machine which is accessible from the Internet. Well, I sometimes also want to blog while on the road. In this case I simply open a SSH Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:31 PM (Comments Off)

Oh yes, and maybe John and
Oh yes, and maybe John and I will get a chance to see how fusion really resolves assemblies ... Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:59 PM (Comments Off)

Rotor is brilliant!
Rotor is brilliant! There are large parts of the .NET Remoting framework inside. The most interesting are in sscli\\clr\\src\\bcl\\system\\runtime\\remoting and in sscli\\managedlibraries\\remoting\\channels and remoting\\metadata. Wow! There is just Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:34 PM (Comments Off)

.NET Remoting: Today Peter posted
.NET Remoting: Today Peter posted his Jabber channel for Remoting. It allows you to use the jabber instant messaging infrastructure for distributed applications. Cool stuff, indeed. [...] special thanks are due to Ingo Rammer for helping us out with some Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:40 PM (Comments Off)

The full source for a
The full source for a CLI implementation which is strangely similar to the CLR can now be downloaded, perused and extended [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Ok. I guess today's evening program has been defined with this release ... ;)   Read More
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:36 PM (Comments Off)

I need an easy to
I need an easy to use "todo" list. Maybe I just need to make a "todo" category. [deem] In fact that's exactly what I do. All the aggregator posts for which I don't have the time to read them (at the instant I see them) get posted to a "must Read More
posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:05 PM (Comments Off)

Annother Microsoft blogger: Wolfgang Manousek.
Annother Microsoft blogger: Wolfgang Manousek. This time it is an actual developer. [deem] Welcome! Just be sure not to violate corporate policy by telling us too much about your heap corruption bugs. Well, in fact do tell us ... at least I like Read More
posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:03 PM (Comments Off)

Some days ago, Sami Jaber
Some days ago, Sami Jaber of http://www.dotnetguru.org asked me if he might translate my article on the performance of .NET Remoting vs. ASP.NET Web Service to French - of course I agreed. So if you're French, you can now read this translated Read More
posted Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:02 PM (Comments Off)

The DevCon was great, I
The DevCon was great, I had a blast, .... [Simon Fell] Somehow too bad that it's been too far away from here ... (if you wonder, I'm in Austria, Central Europe) Read More
posted Monday, March 25, 2002 6:51 AM (Comments Off)

Cool!  Dave now published a
Cool!  Dave now published a Text-editing cheat sheet.  Thanks [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Thanks from here as well! Read More
posted Monday, March 25, 2002 6:48 AM (Comments Off)

UserLand - Wow
Wow! That's customer service. It's sunday and Jake from Userland fixed my bug in fewer than 24 hours. Let's face it, this software is $39 - and I somehow didn't expect this bug to be fixed that quickly. Incredible. Thanks! Dave, you can really Read More
posted Sunday, March 24, 2002 10:52 PM (Comments Off)

Using American dates with Radio on localized Windows
While playing with Radio during the last days, I noticed what a lot of other radio users must have noticed before: There is no configuration setting for the date format but instead the date/time format of the local machine is used when rendering Read More
posted Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:19 PM (Comments Off)

Dave already has "[...] an idea
Dave already has "[...] an idea what change caused this problem." - That's been fast. Read More
posted Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:05 PM (Comments Off)

I'm still playing around with
I'm still playing around with Radio - and some problems really bug me right now. This is also the reason why the calender on the right side doesn't work yet. Oh, and yes all the old links still work and will continue to do so! Read More
posted Sunday, March 24, 2002 6:32 PM (Comments Off)

About to move to Radio
I'm currently in process of migrating this weblog to Radio Userland.What I did not yet figure out is how to include the last day's posts directly on the main page of dotnetremoting.cc. [and btw, I'm not going to host the blog in the radio cloud Read More
posted Sunday, March 24, 2002 12:31 AM (Comments Off)

New blog's in town
After KeithBa, there's a new Microsoft blogger in town. Welcome Mike! (hopefully he keeps it going with more power than Keith ;-)) Read More
posted Friday, March 22, 2002 11:58 PM (Comments Off)

Back from University
I'm on the train again. This time I'm travelling back from Linz, Austria where I did a talk on .NET Remoting at the computer science department on invitation by Dr. Moessenboeck [1]. There were about 30 to 40 people, mostly assistent professors and Read More
posted Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:58 PM (Comments Off)

Speed of development
Today I had a somewhat interesting discussion with one of my co-workers whom I really respect. He has been working in the IT business as a software developer and project manager for ages now [1] - in fact he's one of the guys who used punch cards Read More
posted Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:58 PM (Comments Off)

On emails ...
I currently have absolutely weird e-mail problems (for about two weeks now). Some outgoing mails just disappear without notice and some incoming mails get bounced to their senders just to work when resent some minutes later. If you sent me an email during Read More
posted Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:57 PM (Comments Off)

John "was away working on
John "was away working on yet another secret project [...] life-changing [...]". I can only confirm. He told me a little about it and this one definitely will turn out quite interesting [that is, for the ones working there]. It's somehow Read More
posted Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:57 PM (Comments Off)

When questioning Emacs as a blogging
When questioning Emacs as a blogging tool some days ago, I knew that one of you would respond. I just didn't think that it would be Peter: "I might even be able to switch completely back into Emacs and declare this weblog a "Radio Free Radio-free Read More
posted Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:57 PM (Comments Off)

By the way, I just
By the way, I just received some little gifts from Redmond. The best one is this signed T-Shirt from the development leads for Remoting and Security (Brian and Peter) and some of their developers:    This is just too cool. Thanks guys Read More
posted Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:57 PM (Comments Off)

As I'm currently on the
As I'm currently on the train for the next two hours I finally got the time to post the first .NET Remoting vs. ASP.NET Web Services performance tests which I announced years ago. You can read this article here. Read More
posted Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:57 PM (Comments Off)

Indexing PDFs
- BREAKING NEWS: Amazon has published the final price of my book. It's 30% off now. Click here to pre-order. - 11:55 pm CET. While ego-surfing on Google, I noticed that some of my source code has found its way into IBM Websphere Portal Read More
posted Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:56 PM (Comments Off)

Jabber Channel
- 9:55 pm CET. Huh. I guess I should really look into Jabber. Today two people from the blog community contacted me independently and told me that they're working on a Jabber channel for .NET Remoting ;-) We're in blogworld, you guys should Read More
posted Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:55 PM (Comments Off)

Even more ICorProfilerInfo
- 10:14 pm CET. As Peter mentioned yesterday, working ICorProfilerInfo::SetILFunctionBody is "Cool!". But it comes at a prize. What I did some days ago was to replace the IL body with a predetermined destination IL. Of course this is not Read More
posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:55 PM (Comments Off)

More ICorProfilerCallback
Wow! In the last ten programming hours I learnt more about the C++ than ever before. As I said yesterday, I'm currently playing around with MSIL-injection during the JITter phase. Unfortunately this is only possible with C++ which I've never Read More
posted Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:54 PM (Comments Off)

Playing with ICorProfilerCallback
Somehow John's idea about intercepting the JITter to extend/replace a method's IL by using ICorProfilerCallback got me hooked. The only problem is that I [don't laugh] have never written any C++ before, so I'm currently iterating my way in a trial-and-error Read More
posted Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:54 PM (Comments Off)

New Infos about my book
I finally managed to bring the complete introduction to my upcoming book Advanced .NET Remoting online. You can find it here. The book got a little longer than originally planned and is now a little more than 400 pages (I haven't seen the Read More
posted Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:53 PM (Comments Off)


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