Daily Archives: August 11, 2004

WSE2 for dummies

Tools

I’m going to be doing a lot of work in WSE2 over the next few months …so if you are like me and think this stuff is just for plumbers like Michele L.B. or Christian Weyer or Bristowe, etc., you can witness a normal person actually understanding and heck, even USING WSE2. Because that is part of the point of wse 2.0. Not only does it embrace the latest WS Specs, but they have added an entire layer of functionality to make this stuff accessible to a lot more developers.

I created a carrot for myself to force myself to do this — which is one of my presentations at ASP.NET Connections: “WSE2.0 for Dummies“. And of course the reward will be that I am going to really do some rockin’ stuff to my clients’ application.

—here is an interesting article I found when trying to sort out where the ws-* stuff fits in with the OASIS standards…old news to many, completely uninteresting to others :-), but info that I saw and set aside for “later“ without really absorbing…well “later” is now…

CODE Magazine Security Issue

Community Cheerleading

(update: oh gawd, I’ve done it again – written a post that the Smalltalk devs are pointing at and laughing about how unecessarily difficult .NET is…)

I keep thinking about what a great issue this is. There are articles in here on topics that may seem daunting but are very clearly explained to enable anyone to get a start in these areas.

The introduction to Deborah Kurata’s article on generics is worth the price of admission alone. It is a two sentence explanation of generics that I could easily share with developers at any level.

“Generics allow you to use a variable to represent a desired data type, and thereby create very generic code (hence the name) that works with any data type.You define the data type for the generic variable at run time and the CLR substitutes that data type for the variable everywhere in the code that it is used; basically providing you with strongly typed generic code.”

Michele Leroux Bustamante has an article on WSE2 that is meant for normal people to understand and use.

There are articles on Code Access Security, Replication and Asynchronous programming. All topics that many developers won’t go near because of their complexity. All of these articles aim to enable these same people to use these technologies because there is no reason they shouldn’t be able to.

Code Magazine just gets’ better and better. Great job Markus, Rod et alia!!