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Technology

UDDI Questions

Andy sent some questions on UDDI that I’m going to attempt to answer. If you agree, disagree, or have additions, please drop a comment. Questions: How do you compare UDDI to other methods of discovering networked resources (may or may not be web services) What’s the difference a global UDDI registry and… – google: controlled by […]

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Web

Are Web Services ready for the Web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The headline at news.com reads “Are Web Services Ready for the Web?” This really annoyed me. Last time I heard, there was a web before Microsoft. And there will be a Web in spite of Microsoft. So the company outreached itself with .Net My Services. Well, that’s not surprising considering how little […]

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Weblogging

Weblogging Feb 19 2002

Through this incestuous circle of weblog linking with which we find ourselves, I found PageCount – Into the Lake of Fire, a blog created by Mike Golby from South Africa. Mike trips fantastically over a wide variety of interrelated subjects, from Jeneane Sessum’s review of Chris Locke’s Bombast Transcripts to yesterday’s touching weblog posting that Chris made, dropping quotes from […]

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Technology

Mind the email virus

I’ve had an unusually high number of email virus attempts to wreck havoc on my tender little system today. My quarantine area of Norton is beginning to resemble fly paper in a particularly hot, moist, and odorous climate. (This is where you all go “Ewwww, yuck!”) Of course you all know not to open emails […]

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Technology

Visual C++ helper function

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I popped over to bumr for a minute and came face to face with this Visual C++ code. Whoa! Work! And yes, as noted in the comments,  _bstr_t and _variant_t are darn handy. Almost make VC++ palatable at times. The problem with Microsoft’s Visual products isn’t that they aren’t powerful. […]