I have cut all contact with the outside world for a couple of days to make sure I can finish my work on the SOA Application I talked about earlier. It is not easy to do a project all by oneself, with nobody doing tests and other simple tasks. I have to go from thinking at the conceptuel level to creafting impelmentations, to downlevel code debugging stuff (with transactions, multithreading, message conversions, ...and all and all) ...

For now, I have 6 different services (two of which exist in 4 instances each, and one in two instances), with a process handled by one way web service requests all the way through, all collaborating nicely (with basic integration tests, I still have some debugging going on). I am plugging the UI on to do integration tests.

I hope by tomorrow, I will have a beta release to start talking about.

12/21/2004 10:38:25 AM UTC     

I haven't been blogging for a while, and that is simply because I am too deeply immersed into a project. I can"t tell too much yet, but basically I am building a good size SOA implementation. Off course, it is not the size of proseware, nor as fancily crafted (I don't have the skill of Sir Clemens to do that), but it is still a nice example (with a few thousands of lines of code). It will be another two weeks before I can discuss it more openly here...

12/13/2004 11:29:34 AM UTC     

  Very intersting Speaker Roll at East Med Developers Conference. I will be delivering 5 sessions (2 on Mobility, 2 on ASP.Net 2 and one on Web Servcices Interoperability)

11/5/2004 2:47:51 PM UTC     

This is just one of many errors on this page... looks like they have some guy editing HTML to make the needed changes which occur...whenever they have some election news!!!!

One would have expected that they would have heard of DataBases, and maybe even about Content Management... not after you look at the javascript mess they have on the page, and the errors that kep showing up hinting that HTML has changed and is broken...

11/3/2004 3:36:07 AM UTC     

Great offer by Scott Hanselman... Check it out!

The tool is great, and the price even more so ($34.96)...

11/1/2004 10:07:12 PM UTC     

I was playing the CNN.com Presidential Showdown Game and what I thought was the most likely outcome looked like this :

   To my big surprise, when I tried to figure out what the result would be, it was 269 electors for Kerry and 269 electors for bush!

    If that happens, well, then the decision would go to the House of Representatives, with one vote for each state, which most certainly will mean a victory for Bush... He would then be the only president in US history to be miselected twice. Even more surprising is that in that case, the most probable vice-president (decided by the senate) would be John Edwards!

    Also interesting to note is that, if that was ever to happen, then don't expect to know who is the president before January...

    Let's hope it doesn't come down to this scenario (by the way, I looked in the "Internets" and found another prediction of a tie that uses a different electoral map projection, and another one one more that bank on elector Richie Robb from West Virginia voting for Kerry)

10/30/2004 9:41:27 AM UTC     

   I have been puzzled by what has been happening in the US election compaign this past week in Florida. It really looks like the more Bush compaigns there, the more the state leans closer to Kerry (today, Survey USA is giving Kerry 50%, Bush 49%)... Well, maybe the Kerry compaign should send Bush to more battle states...

10/19/2004 11:48:27 PM UTC