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Category Archives: tech-and-biz
Silverlight web request limitations
The following limitations have according to my experience with Silverlight to date the biggest impact on the architecture and feature set of IPTV applications:
Julia Roberts, Training Wheels, and Bureaucracy
“When a young child first rides a bicycle, the bike is often equipped with training wheels to make learning easier. […] But the full capabilities of the bicycle cannot be exploited while using training wheels—you certainly never see anyone in a bicycle race using them.” “Businesses can’t win the competitive race using training wheels.” …
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Getting acquainted with xsd
…I had to define a REST interface, returning XML data. I already did such things before, but I’ve hesitated to learn the XSD syntax for all the usual reasons: yet another useless language, you can’t express with it all the requirements to the data anyway etc, etc. So I’ve usually created my C# classes, serialized them to XML, …
Limiting the number of outgoing SOAP web service calls
If you create a web app, which consume information from other web services, you eventually need a possibility to control the number of outgoing SOAP web requests. On the one hand, the default maximum number of connections is 2, which could be a performance bottleneck. On the other hand, if you call another web service too …
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Make Object ID
The biggest problems Microsoft has with their products and tools is that they hide intersting features. Under “hide” I understand here failure to communicate, advertise or evangelize the features to the public. For example, did you know, that you can install any module of Vista in the command line. There is now a command …
Open Space Rant
I’m a strong proponent of the open space office concept. I need this empowering feeling emerging from several people actively working at the same time in the same place on similar problems. How wonderful is that to hear someone being thrilled with some very good news about a complicated project! You can share his happiness. …
billg: “Microsoft.com is a terrible website”
Full text here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf I think they’ve improved since 2003. A little. :)