WS-ReliableMessaging 2005: what’s new

Scatter list of new or (IMHO) notable features of the 2005 version of WS-ReliableMessaging. Overall I’d say that it changed very little, promising symptom of maturity of the specification. Elements at the header level are now called “header block” Example Message Exchange (s2.4): sequence explicit creation (2,3) and termination (11,12) are no longer…

Need [WS-]Policy Advice?

So check out http://Securing.WS!You’ll find (together with the already mentioned TulaFale) the Web Services Enhancements Policy Advisor (WSEPA), another pioneer work from project Samoa. From the page: “WSE Policy Advisor is a security plug-in for Web Services Enhancements 2.0 for Microsoft .NET (WSE). It can be invoked either from the WSE Configuration Editor or as…

WS-RM Policy: sounds good

I sort of missed it when I first spotted that something moved in the WS-RM msdn home.Meet Web Services Reliable Messaging Policy Assertions, or WS-RM Policy: a pretty neat spinoff of the main WS-RM spec, where all the policy elements which survived up to the third revision are gathered.Oversummarizing everything boils down to…

Goldrake è Transazionale

Italian post. It would not make sense for somebody who’s not Italian and above thirty… Stasera, durante il viaggio di ritorno in treno, discorrevo amabilmente con alcuni clienti di serie televisive del passato e annedoti correlati. La mia famiglia è molto numerosa, quindi lo scheduling del televisore non poteva che essere prehempive: essere il…

Making sense of the Tablet PC Accelerometer: WinGimcana

Making sense of the Tablet PC Accelerometer: WinGimcana

Hi everybody!At the address http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/wingimcana you can find a small toy I wrote in order to play with one of the coolest but least mentioned M200 features, the Accelerometer. Winform is pretty far from my daily bread (web services), but I have to say that GDI+ is very powerful and well documented! And, of…

WSETrace Here

As everybody knows, Simon produced a really useful wse trace viewer: however, I was never able to use it as quckly as I’d like (when you open it you have to navigate to your project via folder dialog, instead of pasting the path: and I have the tendency of building pretty deep folder hierarchies)….

Quote of the week

“Web service developers have trouble dealing with humans, and I’m not just talking about getting dates.” Keith Brown, from http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/securusernametoken.asp Well, I’d say it can be locally true but fortunately I would not hold it as a general rule… 🙂If you exclude the above, the paper is a concentrate of wisdom. Don’t miss it!

Power without cables

http://splashpower.com/ I’d say that if it works they have a bright future.Considering than now I have a different adapter for each of the following (not everything is mine, but all of them are around): phone(s) bluetooth headset bluetooth GPS antenna port replicator tablet pocketpc camera router access point cell recharger portable HD mp3…