Monthly Archives: November 2004

Some Web Services Don’ts

WSE

After the XML DevCon was over, Dare Obasanjo said it’s time for some best practices on web services, not just “how to”. I wasn’t the only one to agree.

Don Smith writes today about two Web Services Don’ts. Both things that I Do. Uggh. Well kind of. Don says to put all of the business logic for a web service in a separate dll. I definitely have all of the code in separate classes as opposed to in the code behind of my web service asmx file, but I compiles those classes into the same DLL.

So this is a little different than “how to“. When and why is still one to look for.

Hey, at least I don’t fail the highlighted “don’t” in the current Glamour’s Dos and Donts!



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Naked

Just Rambling

Dave Burke noted a phrase that I said on DNR – naked monkeys – which was how I sandwiched Natural History Magazine in between my stints at Penthouse and Playboy some thousand years ago –  that when he quoted it out of context, immediately made me think of one of my favorite albums!

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BlaBla dotNET – .NET chats in French

Community Cheerleading

Mario Cardinal, who is one smart and very fun French Canadian geek, is hosting a web audio .NET talk show in French called BlaBla dotNET. I  know Mario  is completely great to chat with in English! And that’s his second language. His first guest was Eric Cote, one of my favorite geeks in Montreal. Next is one of my other favorite Montreal geeks, Guy Barrette. Okay, so I have a bunch of favorite French Canadian geeks… That accent, those chocolate croissants…what can I say?

Darn – my high school french just won’t do, though.

Mario is speaking at Vermont.NET in January on the Application Blocks in Enterprise Services. It’s a great run down of the application blocks since most people only know about one or two of them.

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WIN-DY!

Vermont

50-60 mph winds all night and 20-40 all morning. The poor power guys are still driving around trying to figure out why the power went out in the middle of the night. Probably some stupid poplar tree somewhere in the woods. They snap like match sticks around here. We have a huge one down in our yard today.

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Don Smith moves his blog to microsoft blogs

Community Cheerleading

Don is a bit of a rebel, you know, it’s the motorcycle thing. He has had is own blog for a while over at dev4net.com but has also just started blogging on msdn weblogs (http://weblogs.asp.net/donsmith). Don’s the guy who wrote the first major wse2 security article over on the dev center. He has also been a great help to me while putting together my WSE2 Security for Dummies Humans presentation (and forthcoming msdn online article).

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Norton Ghost

Tools

I finally got Norton Ghost and after hours of googling, gave up on the idea of backing up my 160GB drive which is a slave drive.

I hate using my blog for tech support, but using Ghost 9.0, is there a way to back up a slave drive in a way that I could extract files if needed? You can do that with the backup image of the primary drive.

My slave drive is partitioned into 3 drives. It did seem to find the first partition of the slave drive, called it “unknown drive”, let me back it up, but did not allow me to open up and view the contents of the backup image. I don’t envision myself restoring a whole drive as much as I’d want to restore a file here or there.

So I’ll be leaving for my long drive a little late since copy & paste takes a while with 30 GB.



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