After going through the PDC schedule and see what sessions are in which time slots, I realized, I need to get my cloning business going full speed ahead. There are just to many cool sessions happening at once. Thankfully some sessions are repeated, but some aren't.

I hope Rory is willing to swap some notes.

I just noticed time slots have been added to the pdc sessions, so it's time I started planning the What, where and when.

As a broad, but very complete overview of a number of ws-* specs and how they interoperate with each other and other pieces of the webservice architecture (e.g. WSDL), this paper  shows were Microsoft and IBM are heading with webservices in the near and not so near future. Combined with the Transaction specifactions we have some very powerfull tools for building globe spanning applications.

Microsoft just released a MMC snap-in to manage IIS 6.0 form Windows XP, so finally, I'll be able to manage my webserver from my tablet pc. Unfortunately this doesn't install IIS 6.0 with it's workerprocess model on XP, but maybe someday.

An excellent article by Julien Cheyssial descripes how, by using Response.Flush(), you can send parts of the rendered content to the client. And thus for example render a progress bar.

Check out the demo and the article. 

Check out the Release notes for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the completion of the SourceGear project to add web services functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.

With big improvements in the webservices stack

With a lot of free controls from the likes of Dundas, ComponentOne and a serial communication control from SAX.

More information can be found at msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/ and the download is up here.

And as far as I know these controls work fine in any other .Net language, so this should even rock your Cobol boat.

PDC Monday. For more details check Don XML's blog.

and making sure our money is spend well.

Nice post about the impact of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is having on other charities.