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June 2007 - Posts

It's nice..........

when a customer tells you that they need you more. Last week, while I was on site in Washington, DC, I was told that they needed me to rewrite one of their applications. Its a fairly complicated application. We'll add some ajax fun to it. I'm looking forward to this.

Posted Jun 20 2007, 10:35 PM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: AJAX, customer, business

devLink Session is posted

http://www.infoq.com/devlink

My session from last fall's devLink in Nashville is posted. One thing to note is that this talk is from the CTP bits from last summer, so this session is a little bit dated, but I think the overall points are still valid. Enjoy.

Posted Jun 16 2007, 04:05 PM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: AJAX, Atlas, ASP.NET, Community News, asp.NET 2.0 ajax, devlink

Itanium == (OS/2 || Microchannel)

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2146564,00.asp

One can't look at Intel's Itanium CPU and not think of IBM OS/2 or IBM Microchannel. All are products that while being technically good haven't quite been accepted in the marketplace. Inspite of the article, I wonder how much longer Intel will keep Itanium around.

Posted Jun 15 2007, 05:30 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: Intel, 64 bits, hardware, cpu, Itanium

Now we know why Buy.com is pimping google checkout

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/13/After-eBay-pulls-ads-Google-cancels-offending-party_1.html

I wondered by Buy.com was pimping google checkout, now we know why.

Posted Jun 14 2007, 06:03 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: google, ebay

Phil Haacked on useful .NET classes

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/06/13/the-most-useful-.net-utility-classes-developers-tend-to-reinvent.aspx

I like his list. I have been pretty good about using them. Another trick that I use is to minimize "strange" pieces of code. If I have something that will be spread out over my code and I am not 100% comfortable with it, I will typically encapsulate it within a private method and then call the method. That way, I only have to make one change to my code instead of 10s or 100s.

Posted Jun 14 2007, 05:59 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, phil haack, .net classes

My google adsense average

I changed my google adsense setup just a little bit and now I am upto $1.48 / day since the beginning of June. Wow, the drinks are on me (not really).

.................

Moving on up........to the east side.......to a deluxe apartment in the sky..........

Posted Jun 14 2007, 05:56 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: ads, adsense, google

ASP.NET Podcast Show #94 - Paul on the WCF - MP3 for All

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Original URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2007/06/14/asp-net-podcast-show-94-paul-on-the-wcf-mp3-for-all.aspx

Paul talks about:

Usage Patterns in WCF
General performance

WCF and WSE/ASMX

Client engagement around WCF/WSE

Static re-use of the proxy – ASP.NET application pattern
Not re-creating the proxy
WCF Proxy/Channel pool
Performance Gains

Wally talks about:

The podcast sit and upcoming changes.
Trip to Florida.
Talking in Knoxville.
Book Status.
Non Technical:

Marketing.
Contracts.

Posted Jun 14 2007, 05:00 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Podcast, wcf, podcast, Paul Glavich, Wally McClure

Developing for the iPhone

I have read a bunch about developing applications for the iPhone recently. I think that the Safari for Windows is a good start, but it won't solve every problem. Having developed software for a mobile environment in the past, I can guarantee that the inputs from a PC and from a mobile device are definitely different. As a result, the entire user experience is different. Testing on a system with a keyboard, mouse, and a large display will result in a different outcome that someone actually trying to run a web application on a handheld device. This is a good start, but we need a full emulator that runs on Windows as well as access to a true SDK so that we can write applications that natively target the iPhone. Sorry Apple, but you still have work to do.

Posted Jun 13 2007, 06:00 AM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: safari, iphone, software development, windows

Detecting that a web service call is a an ASP.NET AJAX call

I want to lock down my web services so that they can only be called by our client. I don't want the web service to be called from someone external and grab data out of my system. I've been racking my brain on how to do this. It hit me in the last day or two. I remembered reading a post a couple of weeks ago about the content type within a web service. I ran some tests this morning and I found that if I called my web service from my ajax client, I was getting a content type of application/json. With a regular application calling my web service, I was getting a content type of text/xml. I'll be checking my calls from now on this way. Its not a perfect solution, but it is a step in the right direction. I can see how to work around this, but I think this will help.

Posted Jun 12 2007, 08:31 PM by wallym with no comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, ASP.NET, web services