WCF can be quite annoying – that is, it sometimes does thing in a way I personally don’t like. While happily coding FIFI (the Fast Infoset implementation for WCF that will be demoed on JavaOne), I noticed that the System.ServiceModel.Message.Write(XmlWriter)…
XML and Web services are loosely coupled, right? And loosely coupled and object references do usually not play nice together… This is quite interesting: It looks like you can preserve object references and pass them along when setting the preserveObjectReference…
Lauren Wood sent me this web link. Internet Net Neutrality
I wrote this a few years ago, just months after moving to the U.S. I was in San Diego at that time, at the 49th IETF meeting. One afternoon, I had some time, so I decided to drive to the…
Sadly, the House Commitee on Energy & Commerce decided to strike down the provisions in a draft bill that would have allowed the FCC to stop ISPs and telco from extorting customers and web service providers. The arguments of the…
It is interesting to see what Microsoft has done with Windows Mobile so far, and where they plan on going. This presentation give a good overview and also a fairly good lookout on what is coming and when. Some highlights:…
If you are at all interested in non-SOAPy web services, you might want to take a close look at WADL, the Web Application (!) Description Language. It is an XML based language that can be used to describe general HTTP-based…
Aside from everything else happening around me, I had ‘one of those days’ yesterday: It actually started pretty good. I finally got my acto together and moved my 19″ rack from my garage to work, to get better use out…
Here is my presentation from yesterday’s panel discussion at the Network Security 2006 conference (many thanks to Hubert and Eve, which have essentially provided the largest part of this). Network Security – SAMLv20.pdf (103.81 KB) Security SAML
After an interesting panel discussion yesterday at the Network Security 2006Conference, I started to think about security protocols in general again. One comment from a gentleman in the audience struck me in particular: PKI (and other authentication systems) are hard…