At the recent Pnp Summit, during a presentation on Ado.Net Data Services, I asked Scott Hanselman whether it supported the REST “hypermedia constraint”, to which he responded by asking me to clarify my question. At that point, and at several other times during the conference I realized that although I think I grok the concept, I […]
Over the past year we have been working on the next generation of our product. After 10 years of fat client development we are rebuilding using REST as the foundation of our application architecture. We are fortunate in that our existing applications map very nicely to some of the principles such as “uniform interface” and […]
Glenn Block announces some details on P&P’s plans for the new WPF Composite Client. In general this is great news. Unfortunately it comes one day after I bitched to him about how P&P were neglecting WPF based smart clients 🙂 What specifically I want to comment on is the following quotes Win Forms is the recommended breadth […]
Tim Ewald responds to Don’s question about the validity of the the four tenets. Don asked for input… This quote really struck home: And finally, I’m not sure I want to build on a layer designed to factor HTTP in on top of a layer that was designed to factor it out. Considering that I am […]
I have been meaning to blog about these guys for a few days now. Check it out TimmyOnTime » Time Management meets Instant Messaging I think the idea of using instant messaging to communicate with a server application is brilliant. I also get a real kick out of chatting with Timmy. Every time my boss gives […]
One of my “things to do” has been to find a decent podcast aggregator. Since I got my Sansa e260 I have been listening to a lot more podcasts and it is starting to become a chore to keep track of new episodes.
“After spending five years being told that the Linux desktop is too hard to use, these fucking alarm clocks boggle my mind. If ordinary people can really figure out how to set the alarm at a hotel, then we are going to make OpenOffice default to vi keybindings in the next Novell Linux Desktop. ” — […]
I have always enjoyed making predictions about where the IT business is going. Now I can blog about it and realize in a few years how wrong I was! IBM is going to buy Sun. The main reason is to prevent Oracle from buying them. Oracle have the database, the application suite, they are talking […]
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