Yesterday, fellow RD Bernd Marquardt, Jens Häupel (DE from Microsoft Germany), and myself did the famous MSDN Online Weinhachts WebCast (Christmas web cast). Besides giving away a number of presents - like books, VS.NET copies, mugs and the like - we also did some Xmas-related demos :) There is a German web site with all the demos on it...

Yesterday, fellow RD Bernd Marquardt, Jens Häupel (DE from Microsoft Germany), and myself did the famous MSDN Online Weinhachts WebCast (Christmas web cast). Besides giving away a number of presents - like books, VS.NET copies, mugs and the like - we also did some Xmas-related demos :) There is a German web site with all the demos on it...

Being German I like beer. I tried it at several places all over the world. This draught is gorgeous. But there is an Irisih saying that "Guinness doesn't travel". And It is *so* true. After the IrishDev Christmas Event in Dublin last week I had the chance to taste a very special Guinness. There is a small and quite unknown pub near the...

Being German I like beer. I tried it at several places all over the world. This draught is gorgeous. But there is an Irisih saying that "Guinness doesn't travel". And It is *so* true. After the IrishDev Christmas Event in Dublin last week I had the chance to taste a very special Guinness. There is a small and quite unknown pub near the...

IBM updates its Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) bits which include a lot of interesting Web services stuff. The new version 2.2 also includes updated implementations of WS-MetadataExchange (9/04 spec version) and WS-Addressing (8/04 spec version). Well, then we'll wait for a new WSE build...

IBM updates its Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) bits which include a lot of interesting Web services stuff. The new version 2.2 also includes updated implementations of WS-MetadataExchange (9/04 spec version) and WS-Addressing (8/04 spec version). Well, then we'll wait for a new WSE build...

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As I am currently writing some articles for a German magazine, it happend I had to draw a picture that shows the four phases involved in a schema-based contract-first Web services design process. So here ist the international version of the picture [click it to enlarge]:

As I am currently writing some articles for a German magazine, it happend I had to draw a picture that shows the four phases involved in a schema-based contract-first Web services design process. So here ist the international version of the picture [click it to enlarge]:

I just updated WSCF's walkthrough document a bit - it now includes a download link for the sample's contract metadata files. Just in case you are running into any trouble while following the document's instructions. Thanks.

I just updated WSCF's walkthrough document a bit - it now includes a download link for the sample's contract metadata files. Just in case you are running into any trouble while following the document's instructions. Thanks.

IBM has a nice write-up of WS-Policy processing: Understand WS-Policy processing - Explore Intersection, Merge, and Normalization in WS-Policy WS-Policy is becoming a crucial component of the Web services framework. It is likely that most Web services programmers will encounter the effects of Web service policy at some level. The newly updated...

IBM has a nice write-up of WS-Policy processing: Understand WS-Policy processing - Explore Intersection, Merge, and Normalization in WS-Policy WS-Policy is becoming a crucial component of the Web services framework. It is likely that most Web services programmers will encounter the effects of Web service policy at some level. The newly updated...

I am blogging this link again - because we cannot read the information contained in this presentation often enough. XML Schema design best practices, especially targeted at the Web services developer - and therefore at everyone using WSCF. Using XML schemas effectively in WSDL design - A conference presentation from SD West 2004[HTML]  [PDF]