Demos just don’t work like real life

Presentations

I did an MSDN Webcast today on Introducing WSE 3.0. Since I had an unusually short amount of time to get through all of my demos,I practiced them over and over (even though they were old hat to me ;-)) just to make sure nothing unexpected happen.

On the very last demo, where I created a new Policy that had “SecureConversation” turned on, it threw an error when I ran the client side app. There was not time to deal with the error and since I knew I had done everything correctly, I moved on, highlighting the key take-away of the demo (which was not seeing “Hello World” on a black screen, but what SC is and how easy it is to implement.)

Now I have just gone back to see what wasn’t lined up. I ran the demo again so that I could see what the error was and make sure the code was a-ok before I posted it…. and wouldn’t you know, it just friggin worked. And I hadn’t touched anything yet.

As my grandmother and all of her grandmothers before her would say: Oy Vey!

[update: see this post for information on the sample code, etc. and this post for more info on the SecureConversation demo]

Introduction toWSE3.0 Webcast tomorrow (Thursday) at 11am EST

WSE

As part of the Web Services Webcast Series, I’ll be doing an Intro to WSE 3.0 tomorrow morning at 11am.

It will be a 1 hour session on the key features of WSE 3.0 with as many demos as I can cram in!

There’s an MP3 raffle for attendees of this series. Check it out!

Here is the whole series. Please don’t ask me why the series of web casts on Web Services (WSE, ASMX, and lot of WCF, of course) is called “Windows Vista: Improve your Deployment and Security Strategy”, but at least it’s under the WCF section, since it’s like a WCF starter kit for those who can’t wait until WCF is live!

See you tomorrow!

In the “hey, you can’t know everything” category: File Name Copy Tools

Tools

Twice, I spent some time googling around for some way of having “copy file name” in my context menu in Windows. I saw a few utilities, but couldn’t find anything (along the lines of Scott Haneslman’s Ultimate Tools list) recommending any of them. So I happened to blog “wouldn’t it be nice” and out of the woodwork come a lot comments and emails with tool (and key-combo – which I have been using but somehow I prefer the ol’ right-click) recommendations. There is even a still-functioning in XP Windows 95 PowerToy.

Mike Gunderloy, googled and emailed me a suggestion. My reponse was “hey, *you* try it first, Mikey and let me know if it blows up your computer or not.” 😉

Here’s the list of recommendations that have come through my blog and Mike’s post. Some of these people are using, others have said “found this on Google for you”

Win95 PowerToy

Ninotech PathCopy

keyboard F2 (rename) ; Ctrl+C

Clipname

ClipPath

keyboard F2; Ctrl+A; Ctrl+C

Clickie

CopyFileNames

Go forth and conquer. Let me know what your faves are.

Acupuncture for my old doggie

Purely Personal

I have a great vet and a dog who is suprisingly beyond the age of a typical newfoundland.

Tasha is 12 1/2 and still chases the neighbor’s cat (kinda of slowly though) but it’s a little tough for her to get up off the floor and climb the stairs, but boy does she want to so she does.

Today my vet finally suggested that Tasha is a great candidate for Acupuncture. He is a well known practioner  and though so far we have gone all allopathic/Western medicine with Tasha, I’m glad that we will get to delve into this area of his expertise! It’s the reason that I chose him as our vet – knowing that we’d have these options if they were necessary.

Poor Tasha. He said he can feel how swollen her back knees are with arthritis and that it’s not just difficult but painful for her to do those things (lifting herself up off the floor, climbing the stairs.) She’s been on awesome glucosomine related products for years (Cetyl-M) This will be the last resort of keeping her happy and healthy for as long as we can and I’m really looking forward to it. Becaues of my travel, we can’t get started until the end of June with the weekly sessios, but we have some other allopathic med for her in the meantime – which is like super duper aspirin.



Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org