"WinFS"- The digital aid meets meta data. Store all your "stuff" and find it seemlessly with hundreds of rules.

"Indigo" - SOAP 1.2 + WS-*. The future of distributed computing

"Avalon" - Cool UI graphics, no Windows message pump and a declarative programming model.

"Yukon" - SQL Server next with the beauty of an XML data type to store all those XML documents.

"Whidbey" - VS.NET next with some great innovations in the XML programming model.

source

The power of .Net globalisation, for maximum wow set the browser's primart language to japanese.

http://e-doc.no-ip.com/blog/

from: Clemens Vasters

Rebecca Dias has a great post on SOA, broadband and outsourcing. Most important lessons:

Outsourcing WILL happen!

If you outsource everything that is of value to your customers, your business will die and you will become a commodity.

So the lesson to learn here: Do the stuff you're clients find important, quality assurance and service, and outsource the less visible things, which someone else can do as good, but a lot cheaper, e.g. boring development chores : "Do I need to write another DAL ?".

Note to self: this last sentence is bad, work on it.

I had a lot of trouble with a XPath query yesterday and didn't find a lot on google, so I'll post the solution I found here.

<foo>

<bar xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">content goes here</bar>

</foo>

The problem I had was creating a query to get the content of the bar element, since it's not in the default namespace. The solution I found appears to me as a nasty hack, so any comments pointing to a better solution are welcome:

/foo/*[local-name() = 'bar' and namespace-uri() = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml']

Ingo Ramer posted a number of his white papers targeted at application architects, designers and developers who are working with .NET and Web Services technologies. Currently there are 3 available but 4 more are coming soon. My personal favorite:

The Flowchart Lie
or: Why do we still use request/response to handle asynchronous business processes?

These come highly recommended since Imgo is one of the most knowledgeable in the field (and not yet swallowed by the big house).

Reading this post by Nikhil Kothari, it's clear the asp.net tema is doing their best to support recent w3c standards for accessibility and markup, which I believe is a good thing. The biggest improvement will be for people who use screenreaders and search engines, who regularly throw a fit when confronted with excessive javascript.

I finished a first version (v 0.9) of a blog aggregator for the root of this site. Some work still remains, the design sucks for one, http headers are ignored and the caching could be better, but I'm quite happy with the asynchronous webrequests.

The code needs some touching up, before I can post it here. I'll try to get it up later this week.

IFC and Bravo have been running a 10 minute behind-the-scenes of Kill Bill clip. In case you missed it or like me don't live in a country where they aired it, it's available online at The Movie Box. Now if only the movie would be released in the Netherlands at the same time as the rest of the world.

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.