Daily Archives: August 31, 2004

Drawing hotspots on U.S. map

Just Rambling

It was a drag to have to draw a hot spot and create a hyperlink on each and every state. But now it’s done. My sister is very happy, as her website now has an interactive map to find stores that sell her product. There are over 750 stores, most in the u.s. so this makes it a little easier! Not bad for a 2 1/2 year old company. Yeah, Jill.

Here’s the website: www.katiesbumpers.com, which is mostly done in Frontpage with some asp and also some web service interaction with her stores database and an asp.net application that lives elsewhere.

Toshiba M200 notes

Tablet

Since the power was out (again! uggh) for a few hours this morning, I used the time to snuggle up to my Toshiba M200 and see if we couldn’t become better friends. Poor Toshiba, still having to live in the shadow of the Acer. I discovered a lot of interesting features (lots of really handy utilities) that I was unaware of. And I finally figured out what that wired “cross-hair” button was for. Oops – my app finished compiling. Later.

MSDN Article on Security with WSE 2.0

Tools

Although I have finally finished my deck for WSE 2 Security for Dummies, I am very happy to see this new article on WSE2 Security by Don Smith on MSDN online. I have really gained a lot be reading (or viewing) many different peoples explanations on this topic so that I was able to get my own grasp of it. Thanks to Rebecca Dias for pointing it out.

Though I will list and link more carefully, some of the great resources I have been using are Michele Leroux Bustamante’s Code Magazine article, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Microsoft Press book on Understanding Web Services Specs and WSE, TechEd presentation by Benjamin Mitchell, MSDN TV video by Benjamin and John Bristowe, WSE 2.0 Security hands on lab by Aaron Skonnard and the truly fantastic API documentation for WSE 2.0.