The Mindreef SOAP diagnostic tool (codename: Tide) is now available for
beta testing!
Mindreef develops a Web services diagnostic system that provides value through the entire software development life cycle of SOAP-based solutions. Our initial product, code-named Tide, collects information about SOAP transactions by monitoring communications between SOAP endpoints. It uses the information to provide visibility and insight into Web services communications through features such as logging, debugging, and reporting.
We are currently accepting beta testers. If you're interested in being part of our program, fill out the Beta Tester Questionnaire.
SP1, as far as I can tell, introduced a bug wherein applications that had specific code groups granting them permissions with a membership determined by a strong key could not run when launched via the href-exe/moble code technique. Keith Brown did some spelunking and determined that ieexec.exe (the hosting process for such an app) would (mistakenly?) require that code from the site as a whole had at least Execution permissions before taking any of the other permissions for the specific assembly into account. The upshot is that to let wahoo.exe run on a .NET SP1+ box, you had to have two code groups, one that gave Internet permissions or greater to assemblies w/ a strong name and one that awarded at least Execution permission to all assemblies from sellsbrothers.com. I've updated the Wahoo! site w/ an MSI that creates both of these code groups along with the full source so that you can do the same for your own assemblies. Enjoy!
From Razvan Caciula: "Specifically, Microsoft announced that beginning tomorrow it will offer for a fee licenses of 113 communications protocols used to interoperate between servers and Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional.
In addition, on Aug. 28 Microsoft will release for free to developers 272 application programming interfaces used by the company's middleware products, such as its instant messaging, media player and e-mail client."
From Jesse Ezell: If the .NET show wasn't enough for you, Microsoft is producing another show. Supposed to be slightly irreverant and not for the faint of heart.
Check out the Animusic demo, which is a capture of a real-time animation demo using DirectX9 and an ATI Radeon 9700. Not only is it amazing graphics-wise, but's it's entertainment. If we can do this kind of thing in real-time, it won't take Pixar to do ToyStory, we can have it in our games or we can do it ourselves in our basements. This will do for animators what word processors did for authors and sequencers did for muscians.
"Dijkstra is renowned for the insight that mathematical logic is and must be the basis for sensible computer program construction and for his contributions to mathematical methodology. He is responsible for the idea of building operating systems as explicitly synchronized sequential processes, for the formal development of computer programs, and for the intellectual foundations for the disciplined control of nondeterminacy. He is well known for his amazingly efficient shortest path algorithm and for having designed and coded the first Algol 60 compiler. He was famously the leader in the abolition of the GOTO statement from programming."
