Ingo Rammer's Weblog

Dave wonders: "Ingo Rammer spotted

Dave wonders: "Ingo Rammer spotted another .NET developer who started a weblog. Something's going on here."

For clarification, yesterday's .NET bloggers aren't from Microsoft. They are just somewhat "well known" in the .NET community due to their great number of valueable contributions [well, ok ... and some occasional rants and raves ;-)] in some mailing lists or newsgroups. That is, we are just the users ;-)

And it's going on ...

And it's going on ... yet another .NETter who got a weblog. Welcome Tomas!

Ok. Now I read a

Ok. Now I read a little bit more of Web Services/SOAP and CORBA. It seems that the author tries to compare them for classic distributed applications (like customer management applications in a corporate LAN). In this case he is probably right that SOAP isn't the best choice - but this depends on the degree of interoperability with other programming languages and platforms which may be needed for an application.

However, I'd really like to know how many cross-company applications which interact by using CORBA have been deployed in the last years ;-). How many based on SOAP or XML-RPC?

Web Services/SOAP and CORBA: This

Web Services/SOAP and CORBA: This paper is written from a CORBA point of view and the author tries to trash Web Services. I have to admit that I did not yet read the whole thing but I found one interesting bit: In section nine, the author talks about the possible advantages of human readable data formats

Some may argue that it is a good thing that the protocol is readable by humans. This may allow for easier developing and debugging, but is that true? What real use is human readability at the protocol level? In any inter-corporation data exchange scenario it’s going to be encrypted anyway. And are developers really interested in what passes over the wire? I’d rather not think about that and concentrate on the important parts of the application.

Maybe we should think again about SMTP and POP3 and how they changed the world, right? Human readable protocols are normally a little bit slower but somehow people actually like to see what's going over the wire. They maybe also like to be able to debug email systems simply by using telnet. And finally: if I can read it, I can implement it in no time.

Did you ever write your own CORBA implementation for a programming language of choice, where no implementation existed before? Why not?

Sam Gentile seems to like Radio: Wow!

Sam Gentile seems to like Radio: Wow! 5 minutes to up and running! Ingo Rammer, you are right. This is much easier!

Another .NETter is about to

Another .NETter is about to start a WebLog. Welcome Sam! And by the way, you really should look into using Radio, it's just way more comfortable.

Ok. I figured out how

Ok. I figured out how to persuade Radio Userland to render the latest day's posts in a form that can be included directly on the main page of http://www.dotnetremoting.cc. If anyone's interested how this works, just tell me and I'll write a short summary about it.

Gartner.com, 3/25, Note FT-15-9819: Gartner

Gartner.com, 3/25, Note FT-15-9819: Gartner Warns Oracle Customers to Check License Fees. It seems as if some Oracle salespeople charged their customers a little too much. Just think about what would have happened if Microsoft did things like this?

[CNET] Hasso Plattner, co-chairman of

[CNET] Hasso Plattner, co-chairman of SAP says "This industry will not survive in the next 20 years with applications built by a few big companies," Plattner said during his keynote speech. "This industry will only survive if there is a community of developers building applications that can work together across many systems."

Ok. I agree that interop is a Good Thing. Somehow Plattner sounds quite like Dave when he tells the world, that SmallCo's will have to stand up and work together. Funny thing that Platter comes from one of the larger BigCos ...

I nevertheless believe that Plattner doesn't really care about interop. I guess his only challenge is to keep SAP sales in a market that's somewhat saturated - but ok, as long as his way to reaching the target is the same as ours, it's fine by me.

Just for your information, a Rotor

Just for your information, a Rotor mailing list can be found at http://discuss.develop.com/dotnet-rotor.html.