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May 2002 - Posts

As some of you probably
As some of you probably noticed, the number of my weblog & newsgroup posts decreased whereas the average time to answer my emails increased during the last weeks. There's been a very good reason for this. More infos tomorrow. Stay tuned! You'll Read More
posted Friday, May 31, 2002 1:31 AM (Comments Off)

Upcoming Microsoft webcast on .NET
Upcoming Microsoft webcast on .NET Remoting: How to Develop Distributed Applications using NET Remoting http://microsoft.com/usa/webcasts/upcoming/858.aspJune 4, 2002 - 11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time Sean Campbell, Microsoft Partner, 3 Leaf Solutions Read More
posted Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:39 PM (Comments Off)

Sam Ruby was just elected
Sam Ruby was just elected to the Apache Board of Directors. Congrats! Read More
posted Monday, May 27, 2002 7:56 PM (Comments Off)

Robert Scoble posted some great
Robert Scoble posted some great thoughts on Conference Speakers and Weblogging. I fully agree with his points re live IRC-chats and live speaker-rating during the talks. I guess I too would turn these off during my talks - not just because Read More
posted Saturday, May 25, 2002 5:14 PM (Comments Off)

Some updates on my speaking
Some updates on my speaking schedule: I'll do a little tour for Microsoft Research at the beginning of June. We will provide four full-day .NET Crash Courses at four Universities in Europe (Free entrance, registration required): Technical University Read More
posted Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:52 PM (Comments Off)

Sam Ruby found A short parable
Sam Ruby found A short parable on XML [via Ugo Cei].  An entertaining and insightful view on many of the issues driving people to document literal as a common base.  And in the process, partially answers Ingo's question on messaging vs Read More
posted Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:20 PM (Comments Off)

[via g. blog radio]
[via g. blog radio] Thinking In C# :  a free online book for C# programming by Bruce Eckel.  Yes. You read that right. It's a free book on C#.  Bruce started doing it when he wrote Thinking in Java about 4 years ago. The electronic version Read More
posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:32 PM (Comments Off)

Following his general discussion of
Following his general discussion of formatters in the .NET Framework, Tomas posted an excellent article on the design principles behind "Formatters and Remoting". We talked about this for some time and the resulting article is a definite must read Read More
posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:54 PM (Comments Off)

A reader of my blog
A reader of my blog just pointed me towards the following post about REST vs. SOAP by Paul Prescod: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/1301. I think you can already guess my opinion on this topic - but anyway, the article Read More
posted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:40 PM (Comments Off)

Anyone still remembers the pearl
Anyone still remembers the pearl of wisdom that a development tool which advertises to "reduces your project costs by 50%" can be nothing but a silver bullet - simply because of the fact that the act of software development only Read More
posted Monday, May 20, 2002 11:29 PM (Comments Off)

[via Scripting News, from Slashdot] Alan Cox
[via Scripting News, from Slashdot] Alan Cox [Mr. Linux Kernel] said in an interview: "The more dangerous parts of all this are not so much .NET but chunks of the model that not only the .NET product and the Java standards rely on. Things like Read More
posted Monday, May 20, 2002 7:17 PM (Comments Off)

[via Sam Gentile, via The
[via Sam Gentile, via The Wagner Blog] Here is an update reg. MONO : We are able to retrieve simple data from the database using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data types are supported right now but more are in the works. Read More
posted Sunday, May 19, 2002 6:31 PM (Comments Off)

Devx.Com just put my review of Intrinsyc's
Devx.Com just put my review of Intrinsyc's Ja.NET online at http://www.devx.com/dotnet/articles/ir051402/ir051402-1.asp. Intrinsyc's Ja.NET—Extending the Reach of .NET Remoting Java/.NET Communication just got easier. Intrinsyc's Read More
posted Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:17 PM (Comments Off)

I'll unblog until Sunday, 12th.
I'll unblog until Sunday, 12th. No more news to expect until after the weekend as I will spend the time away from my machine ;-) Read More
posted Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:19 PM (Comments Off)

Peter Drayton found a very interesting
Peter Drayton found a very interesting paper: On my explorations I ran across an interesting paper done at USC entitled "A Comparison of Alternative Encoding Mechanisms for Web Services". [...]  done using .NET Remoting! I'm looking forward Read More
posted Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:16 AM (Comments Off)

I'm finally about to summarize the
I'm finally about to summarize the opinions on message passing versus distributed objects. This is somewhat delayed partly due to UserLand's crash, my DNS-problems, and partly also due to the wonderful weather during the last days. I hope Read More
posted Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:26 AM (Comments Off)

It seems that most weblogs
It seems that most weblogs - at least the ones I'm reading - managed to recover from the recent problems at UserLand. This somehow gives me the chance, to finally summarize the thoughts on distributed objects versus message passing. More to come Read More
posted Friday, May 03, 2002 8:32 PM (Comments Off)

Update: My DNS problems should
Update: My DNS problems should be solved in a few days as a friend of mine emailed me and offered to host the nameserver records for this domain. Thanks! Read More
posted Friday, May 03, 2002 7:36 PM (Comments Off)

Sorry guys, dotnetremoting.cc was unreachable
Sorry guys, dotnetremoting.cc was unreachable for the last 8 hours or so due to a failure of the leased line to our offices where I host the DNS. As this has happend for the third time now, I guess I'll finally move the DNS out of our offices and into Read More
posted Friday, May 03, 2002 11:49 AM (Comments Off)

It isn't .NET but I
It isn't .NET but I guess things like this could actually be interesting Asynchronous Web Services and the Enterprise Service Bus. It also somehow relates to our discussion of message based and object oriented. ;-) Read More
posted Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:05 PM (Comments Off)

Message passing or distributed objects?
Rickard Öberg [via Sam Ruby who got it via Guido Casper]: "The first rule of distributed objects is ... drumroll ... don't use distributed objects". Hi, my name's Ingo. I still believe in distributed objects. By the way, for everyone Read More
posted Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:53 AM (Comments Off)


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