Doubt's Log

Dave Winer: How about doing a WSDL for Weblogs.Com? It's about as simple an interface as you can find on the Internet today.  May I make a humble suggestion?  DIY.  I know that you are a Busy Developer, so I wrote a Guide for people exactly like you. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog]

I tried, but I know I didn't get it right. I need something better then type="s:anyType" for the arguements and the return type needs to be wrapped up in a Result wrapped in a pingResponse What I did get done got read by vs.net but has a funky out parameter probably due to the two outputs. I could use a that second BDG episode from Sam Ruby's Log.

In the end, you should stick to the stuff he is an expert about, like encryption, when you listen to his writting, and go elsewhere for editorials about Microsoft and security (there are plenty). Remebering at least one of the integrity rules myself, I'm a test developer in windows networking (but not speaking for Microsoft).

The part I like the best is:

|    Even if CLR's level of language neutrality becomes
|    important, this can be patched into the JVM without major effort.

I find that claim hard to believe.  Stack-local allocation, by-ref arguments, and the Win32 model of resumable exception handling do not look to me like minor patches.

Congrats to Culp, who was hoping by getting the dialog going some sort of standard conduct to judge and be judged by would come into being.

Neutral Good Elf Ranger Bard

The lastest This Modern World draws a cute parrallel between Enron and the Bush presidency.

A nice summery of Bush and Enron from Michael Moore.

The annoying thing to me about the Cigital mess is how easily some news outlet's picked up the story. The culture is that if it's microsoft and a securtiy vuln it gets to be an instant headline regardless of the merits of the claim. Meanwhile I feel bad for Cigital because any company with a clue will avoid them and thier services. There are probably plenty of people there with some smarts, but when the morons win the whole company get's to feel it for a long time. If I'm really giving them the benifit of the doubt then they got tripped up with the documentation's comma: "You can use this option to detect buffer overruns, which overwrite the return address." However I sorta doubt most people would be aware of the feature if it wasn't for thier press releases. 

This marketing guy just came up... his head keeps going back and forth. I wonder if his neck hurts. It's weird, I have no idea what this guy is talking about. I believe he is talking about taking people who have already deployed on some microsoft server products and turn it easily into a web service. whee.

The question I always ask myself watching this stuff is how can I make my job easier. That question wasn't well answered in the demo, hopefully it was for someone else watching.

Iron Developer. cute.

It's 9 am and I'm watching the vs.net launch in the bldg 40 cafiteria in redmond.

I smell corn beef. Great... from now on vs.net will be associated with corn beef in my mind.

NoteToSelf: If I upgrade and get broken again this new callback will let me fix it permenatly. It's sorta weird that they made script error the way to do access denied, but that's three state logic for you.

So right now I'm currently playing Shadow Hearts, Azurik, FFX, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Nightcaster. If I manage to catch up on my game playing then I can spend time again working on Silent Hill 2, Munch's Oddysey, Bloodwake, Amped, Tony Hawk 3, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Okage.

It's official, I am a Gamer.

Haven't posted in a while... the reason being is how crazy and busy it's been the last week. The first part of the security month was reviews, every testplan and dev design was review from a security focus. For both the dev's and test this meant an increadible amount of meetings and preperation work, as well as a good number of resulting action items.

I took advantage of Mathias, Mary and Mark's invation to go sking at Steven's Pass on saturday. I went all out and got private lessons for two hours. I think I'm happy with the result. I go faster and fall less. Mablye after a few more times I'll be ready for black diamonds. Strangly enough I don't have the usual soreness that a long day of sking gives.