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51 of 18424 | How to access a particular mailbox using Microsoft Exchange web services ? - In this article, we will see how we can access a particular mailbox using Microsoft Exchange web services ? The DistinguishedFolderId element identifies Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 folders that can be referenced by name. The DistinguishedFolderId class has an optional Mailbox property on it that allows you to indicate which mailbox you are accessing. 1: <DistinguishedFolderId Id= "" ChangeKey= "" > 2: <Mailbox/> 3: </DistinguishedFolderId> .csharpcode, .csharpcode...(read more)...

52 of 18424 | HOWTO: How Document Collaboration Works at Microsoft - While the title of this post might indicate that there is a sweeping document collaboration strategy that all teams and people use, that’s not the case necessarily.  We are big at dogfooding which is a made up verb indicating that we love to try out our own software and tools in our everyday jobs just the way our customers do.  To that end, this post will describe a successful multi-national document collaboration effort surrounding the recent publication of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Team Foundation Server 2008 guidance that was recently published on MSDN. The guidance for this heavily anticipated documentation will be released in phases over the next few weeks and ......

53 of 18424 | PDC - After some considerable time I'll try start blogging again.Especially because I'm going to the PDC and there is a lot of stuff writing about. So, as a start, I'll try to attend the following sessions: "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience "Oslo": Repository and Models "Oslo": The Language "Rosario": A Sprint with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio An Introduction to Microsoft F# ASP.NET and JQuery Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Developing for Microsoft S......

54 of 18424 | SAMPLE WF CONFIG FOR NLB SCENARIO - If you are deploying your workflow application to multiple machines(NLB scenario) and all these machines are using same database for persistence , you need to use following  config (1)OwnershipTimeoutSeconds should be very high value ,so other hosts can't  load these workflows (2)Disable auto unload SAMPLE WORKFLOW CONFIG:  <WorkflowRuntime Name="WorkflowServiceContainer"> <CommonParameters> <add name="ConnectionString" value="Initial Catalog=SHARED;Data Source=localhost;Integrated Security=SSPI;"/> </CommonParameters> <Services> <add type="System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.ManualWorkflowSchedulerService, System.Workflow.Runtime, Versi......

55 of 18424 | Schema Support Strengthens Toolkit in Updated XHTML Modularization Standard - 2008-10-08: W3C updated its XHTML Modularization standard today with support for designing modular languages using XML Schema. The addition of schemas to XHTML Modularization 1.1 is an important step towards the XHTML2 Working Group's goal that XHTML support rich Web content and be extensible, while remaining interoperable. A modularization standard allows language designers to reuse elements defined by multiple parties (including other W3C standards such as SVG and MathML) and combine them into new formats to meet specific application needs. The standard allows people to use schema-enabled, off-the-shelf tools to immediately begin authoring and validating documents written in those new lan......

56 of 18424 | Screencasts – Creating Your First WCF Client - Welcome back to the WCF screencast series! After a spending four weeks covering WF topics, we return to WCF for the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series. In the coming month, we’ll be covering topics around the calling of WCF services. This week, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your first WCF client application that consumes an existing WCF service (see the screencasts covering the creation of a WCF service and how to create endpoints for more details). We add the service to the client application using the WCF service's Metadata Exchange (MEX) endpoint - which generates the service definition and contract, which Aaron then wri......

57 of 18424 | Simple Reflection Based Assignment Using Extension Methods - Have you ever had two objects, of different types, and wished that C# could just be smart enough to realize that objA.FirstName should be assigned to objB.FirstName? For me this comes up quite a bit when working with WCF services. I don't want a service...(read more)...

58 of 18424 | SOA Design Patterns - Just wanted to note what looks to be an interesting book on SOA related design patterns http://www.soapatterns.org/default.asp   Unfortunately the book won't be released until later this month but it's written by the editor of a leading SOA magazine so it looks like it is worth checking out. ...

59 of 18424 | SOAP over HTTP - Why are we using SOAP over HTTP in Web-Services ? ...

60 of 18424 | SOAP over HTTP - Why are we using SOAP over HTTP in Web-Services ? ...

61 of 18424 | The myths and reality of XHTML - Lack of support for XHTML is a fact of life on the web in 2008. Prior to the 3.0 series of Firefox the XHTML processor in Gecko was so poor that Mozilla’s own engineers recommended against it[27]; no version of Internet Explorer up to, and including, IE 8 support XHTML at all, and a number of other browsers such as Lynx were never written to handle XML in the first place. The above quote comes from XHTML?—?myths and reality by Tina Holmboe, a member of the XHTML Working Group. It is a nice piece that delves into: Introduction The Purpose of XHTML XHTML and the Content Type Strictly XHTML Lack of support Content–Negotiation Recommendations ...

62 of 18424 | Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - October / November - Here's the latest (and large!) set of activities and events for developers in the Northeast. Know of any other events or user group meetings?  Please let me know! Connecticut October 15 The Fall Northeast Roadshow - Farmington, CT Entity Framework, REST, Dynamic Data, IE8, Unit Testing, UI Technology, and even Robotics! - Chris Bowen & Jim O'Neil October 28 Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT "BizTalk Server for Developers" - Mario Harik November 8 Fairfield/Westchester Code Camp - Stamford, CT Spend the day sharing knowledge and networking with fellow developers! November 12  Fairfield/......

63 of 18424 | WCF: A utility to change all URLs in .config files by one click - Hello,   Before Dublin is in charge, especially the Repository for the Web-services I'm using the custom code to manage the buzz  with many URLs in Web.config files   There is a utility to change all URLs in .config files by one click. http://www.codeplex.com/FilesModificatorAdmi   1. Purpose. In my current project we've got a lot of composite WCF-services. We have several environments: Development,Test1, Test2, Production. We don't have the service repository. That means when we move the services from one environment to another, we have to change addresses (URLs) in the <client> sections of all Web.config files (several dozens). Boring and error prone work, isn't it......

64 of 18424 | Web Slices, IE8 and S+S - RSS or really simple syndication has become a great tool to provide updates to a website subscriber. An RSS feed requires the web site to duplicate some content to be published as an XML file or feed, that a software running on the client (IE, Outlook or readers) downloads for consumption. RSS has become a great technology that showcases Software + Services model. A Web Slice allows users to subscribe to a portion of a Web page. The Web Slice format consists of the minimum HTML annotations necessary to enable the publication and consumption of a mutable item on a Web page. Web publishers can use this format in to make portions of a Web page subscribe-able. IE 8 is the software with the f......

65 of 18424 | Working with Session State - One concept that sometimes confuses ASP.NET developers when moving to WCF is the notion of session state. In ordinary WCF services, all of the session state is stored in local volatile memory. The application has to choose to copy over a portion of the session state to a durable storage location for that state to be preserved across running instances. WCF doesn't come with a built-in option for enabling persistent storage of session state or enabling access to the session state from other processes. There are a couple ways to make WCF more like ASP.NET. One way to make WCF more like ASP.NET is to make WCF exactly like ASP.NET by turning on ASP.NET compatibility mode. A WCF appli......

66 of 18424 | WSCF Blue is now open - Christian Weyer has now announced that WSCF-Blue the code name for the next version of WSCF - Web Services Contract First is now an open project on CodePlex and is looking for people to participate and take the lead on driving the tool forwards. In case...(read more)...

67 of 18424 | XmlDocument vs XElement Performance - I have been using XElement class a lot lately, I was doing some performance tests on this to figure out the difference between this and XmlDocument class and here is what I found. First of all XElement class is part of .NET Framework 3.5, it was introduced with XML to Linq and is part of System.Xml.Linq namespace. This class has been totally written from scratch to get better usability with LINQ. XElement.Nodes and XElement.Attribtues return IEnumerable which could be easily used to traverse nodes. You can also use them Lambda expressions. For more information on XML to LINQ check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387098.aspx. In my case, I have created a test bench (console appli......

68 of 18424 | Zuora Automates Subscription Billing and Payments - Zuora, which was founded by former Salesforce.com Chief Strategy Officer Tien Tzuo, believes that subscription payments are the future. “Why buy a DVD when you can subscribe to Netflix and access a whole library? Why install CRM software when you can subscribe to the world-class version online from salesforce.com? Why buy a car when you can subscribe to ZipCar and get the whole fleet?” goes their sales pitch. Unfortunately, dealing with subscription billing and payments can be a major hassle — rather than charging every customer once, you have to deal with billing and payments multiple times per year for each user, often times on different schedules, and using different payment methods. Z......

69 of 18424 | ADO.NET Sync Services in N Tier Architecture - Finally after 2 weeks I did get chance to publish the second part of my article on Sync Services. The article is a follow up article to Introduction to ADO .Net Sync and takes a look at how easily we can convert a two Tier Sync application to N tier using WCF services. The ability to sync up your data without connecting to the main database is a great value and opens the door to many complex architecture implementations. There are many examples on sync services online but most of them are in C#, hence here I am just trying to have very basic examples for the VB community. If you need slides for your own presentation you can get it from my previous blog. In the coming weeks I'll try to po......

70 of 18424 | Biztalk 2006 adaptor for MS CRM 4 - We have just released the Biztalk adaptor for MS CRM 4. It can do pretty much the same as the adaptor for CRM 3 but this one support 64 bits natively   You can download it free of charge from this URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ABD3BB9E-A59A-4EB6-8DE8-FB25B77926D7&displaylang=en Now go and upgrade that Biztalk server :) Over and out....

71 of 18424 | Exchange Web Services Update Rollup 4 Roundup - We have just released update rollup 4 (RU4) for Exchange 2007 SP1.  This rollup fixes some bugs in Exchange Web Services (EWS), and introduces some behavior changes to EWS to allow customers and partners the flexibility to accomplish some key scenarios.  If you have written code against Exchange Web Services, we definitely recommend that you take a look at RU4. The following are the biggest changes that will be coming in the rollup: -          Item IDs are now returned after MoveItem/CopyItem calls. -          Unknown/unsupported item types are returned as Messages. -  ......

72 of 18424 | Exporting Annotations from WCF - This article describes the design and implementation of the WCF extension for exporting the wsdl documentation and schema annotation. ...

73 of 18424 | IE 8 beta 2 Ajax features - Sunava Dutta has detailed the enhancements made to IE 8 beta 2 for Ajax developers including XDR, XDM/postMessage, DOM Storage, offline detection, and more. A lot of great stuff! XDomainRequest (XDR) This is an object built from the ground up to make client-side cross-domain calls secure and easy. To reduce the chances of inadvertent cross domain access, this object requires an explicit acknowledgement for allowing cross domain calls from the client script and the server. Additionally, it reduces the need for sites having to resort to the dangerous practice of merge scripting from third parties directly into the mashup page. This practice is dangerous because it provides third parties ful......

74 of 18424 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 3-10-2008 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 3rd October 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Hyper-V Server 2008 Getting Started Guide • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - English • Branch Office Infrastructure Solution for Windows Server 2008 Solutions & Solution Development • Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System White Paper • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008) • Modifying Messages with the WCF Adapters • Web Platform Installer Beta Security, Policy & Compliance • Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 • Microsoft Application......

75 of 18424 | Microsoft announces "Dublin" - Microsoft will be presenting some very interesting stuff at the PDC this year. One of the much-anticipated Oslo-related messages came last week, ahead of the conference, with the public announcement of "Dublin", an Application Server and host for WF / WCF applications.  And get this: There will be CTP BITS available for .NET Framework 4.0 and Dublin at the PDC! Essentially, Dublin offers significant feature additions to the WAS (Windows Process Activation Services - remember?) that ship with Server 2008 and Vista, and will include functionality that previously was only available in Microsoft's messaging platform, BizTalk Server. Undoubtedly this is great news for anyone who has been develo......

76 of 18424 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 BizTalk Adapter Now Available - The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates: Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Supports form-based authentication Supports multi-tenancy With this adapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any other non-Microsoft business application using the BizTalk server mapping capabilities, which allows you to discover and use the schema of any of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities. Adapter is available at no additional charge and can be downloaded from here. Sanjay Jain Microsoft D......

77 of 18424 | Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference 2009? - Does anyone know where I can get more info on the Microsoft SOA and BPM conference scheduled for Jan 2009 in Redmond? I know there are a few Canadian day-events, but I've also heard there's one in Redmond as well... D ...

78 of 18424 | Mono 2.0 Released - For those Linux devs who don’t have something adamantly against Microsoft, Mono 2.0 has been released!   From the release notes: Mono 2.0 is a portable and open source implementation of the .NET framework for Unix, Windows, MacOS and other operating systems. Release Date: October 6th, 2008 Major Highlights Mono 2.0 is a major milestone in the Mono project, and it supports the following features: Microsoft Compatible APIs ADO.NET 2.0 API for accessing databases. ASP.NET 2.0 API for developing Web-based applications. Windows.Forms 2.0 API to create desktop applications. System.XML 2.0: An API to manipulate XML documents. System.Core: Provides support ......

79 of 18424 | Moss Camp and Cloud Camp Coming to Chicago! - Cloud Camp on 10/21/08 CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.  Register at this site today!...(read more)...

80 of 18424 | navigator.geolocation now available in Firefox via Geode - When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a browser, via Geode. Geode is the latest project in Mozilla Labs that gives you that API in Firefox. Aza Raskin has a nice Food Finder application that ties it together with local search and maps. Differences between Geode and Geolocation in Firefox 3.1 Geode and the Geolocation Services in Firefox 3.1 will use the same W3C API for Geolocation, meaning that the same Javascript code will work in both. The still-in-developement Firefox 3.1 version will allow the ......

81 of 18424 | PDC is coming - Uncloaking after a long absence, here's some of what is new and exciting for the next release of WCF and WF:  everything can be done in XAML.  http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2008/09/30/pdc08-xaml-talk.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL36/...

82 of 18424 | PDC, here we come! - The premier Microsoft conference, the PDC - Professional Developers Conference, is happening in the week of Octobert 26th in Los Angeles! Microsoft stars will join movie stars and present a bunch of upcoming technologies and paradigms to thousands of developers. There are still seats left, so please register if you havent already. You can pre-register for sessions you'd like to attend here. We have a few talks on the technologies my team works on - WCF/WF. I hope to see you at these sessions or in the lounge where a bunch of product folks will be hanging around waiting to answer your questions. We know we've been quiet and we want to break the silence! WF 4.0: A First Look, Kenny Wolf P......

83 of 18424 | Read an XML Document with the StAX Iterator API - This tip shows an example of how to use the Iterator API to read from an XML file. ...

84 of 18424 | SDC Day 1 - SO Workflows and WPF Interop - Gave two sessions yesterday at the Software Developers Network conference (aka SDC) in Netherlands. First was on using WF as a service technology. I talked about where WF fits into a SO architecture, as well as SO tenets, WF capabilities for services, and then of course, several demos of how to use it. I showed simple use of Send/Receive activities, how to split out the context instance ID from the proxy so it can be handed off to multiple clients, and how to make callsbacks from one workflow to another with service calls. You can grab the slides and demos for Developing Service Oriented Workflows here:  Slides   Demos Second session was on Windows Forms......

85 of 18424 | Setting up cross farm searches via Federated Search - In recent months I've seen significant issues with search crawl times at numerous customers who have deployed MOSS globally. The issues often are caused by the need to crawl other farms across the world, so "global" results will show up on one search page. Crawling the world from one location is a very bad idea because bandwidth and latency between data centers across the world is very poor. For more reading on search performance, check out the Microsoft Enterprise Search blog, and focus on the "Perf and Scale" tagged content.  With the release of the MOSS Infrastructure Update, Microsoft has added Federated Search features to MOSS. Search Federation allows for the aggregation of queri......

86 of 18424 | Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2008 -- #389 - In This Issue: Dhiraj Gupta, Peter Brombert, Bill Reiss, Jesse Liberty, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Lee, Karl Shifflett, and Tamir Khason. Karl Shifflett reports a very long weekend and an update to XAML Power Toys: XAML Power Toys 3.1.0.2 Has Silverlight 2 Support!. Tamir Khason reports Silverlight Bidi Controls Library RC0 and movement from Beta 2 to RC0 , and everything is on CodePlex! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Min-Map Dhiraj Gupta has the beginnings of a mind-mapping tool... tak a look at this.. it's pretty interesting. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Doing Data Part IV: Browser / Cookie Interaction I don't know what was going on, but I wasn't getting the updates on Pete......

87 of 18424 | Snap Shot of BizTalk 2006 Solutions For MQSeries - I wanted to create a  snap shot of BizTalk 2006 solutions for MQSeries.  The two options we have can be confusing, so hopefully the information below will add some clarity.   BizTalk WebSphere MQ Adapters BizTalk Server 2006 we only use: 1)      MQSeries Server Adapter 2)      MQSeries Client Adapter                                    Base Client – Transactions not supported              &......

88 of 18424 | The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available!! - The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates: •             Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 •             Supports form-based authentication •             Supports multi-tenancy With this adapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any other non-Microsoft business application using the BizTalk server ......

89 of 18424 | Updates for AJAX in IE8 Beta 2 - Sunava Dutta here, a program manager focused on improving AJAX in the browser! Now that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out, I want to write about some of the latest rounds of enhancements we’ve made. As many of you may recall, back in March we discussed a set of developer experiences in AJAX across scenarios such as client-side cross-domain data access, local storage, and navigation state management among many others. The good news is our team has been working since Beta 1 to tweak and update our implementations based on feedback from developers (thanks for your contributions!) and ongoing updates to the W3C standards drafts on which most of these implementations are based or have been submi......

90 of 18424 | User Group Session: A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010 - On Monday, 13-Oct I will be presenting a session at my local (and favorite) user group, the .NET Developers Association. For this session I will be providing a demo-filled tour of the next release of VSTS - Visual Studio Team System 2010. This is your chance to come and see some of what we will be showcasing at the upcoming PDC 2008 later this month. Tell your friends, tell your boss (heck, maybe you'll get paid to come). One lucky attendee will walk away with a fully licensed copy of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite.   A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010 In this session you will witness a demo-intensive tour of the upcoming release of Visual Studio Team Syst......

91 of 18424 | Using WCF with Automatic Client Proxies - Using automatically generated proxies in WCF in a manner similar to .NET Remoting...

92 of 18424 | Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast On Demand - I uploaded my webcast into our SkyDrive service and have posted it here for your viewing pleasure. Check out my blog post from last week for the download details for the samples from this webcast. Also I should point out that we have updated the WCF contracts for our staging service so if you are using the samples you should delete and recreate the service references for all of the services in these samples so that they won't throw exceptions. Enjoy....

93 of 18424 | WCF and WF at the PDC 2008 - I know a lot of you are excited about attending PDC2008 from the 27th through the 30th of October . There are some very interesting sessions at the PDC this year, I wanted to draw your attention to some of the sessions by members of my team. WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 Presenter: Ed Pinto WF 4.0: A First Look Presenter: Kenny Wolf Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML Presenters: Rob Relyea, Daniel Roth Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services...(read more)...

94 of 18424 | WCF Socket Connection aborted due to DBNull - I've been delving a fair bit into WCF lately and have been encountering enough gotchas that it is clear that it's time for me to resurrect my tech blog.  My first post: an errant WCF Socket Exception which looks like a timeout due to the message is actually an exception caused by DBNull.   You may have come across the above msg at some point in working with WCF. The socket connection was aborted. This could be caused by an error processing your message or a receive timeout being exceeded by the remote host, or an underlying network resource issue. Local socket timeout was '00:00:30'. Oddly however, none of my binding config settings actually set a timeout of 30 seconds and even more oddl......

95 of 18424 | Web part zone adapter - A lot of people working with public facing web sites and SharePoint 2007 have discovered that the web part zone makes it virtually impossible to have a WCAG complient site, in other words to have a page layout which doesn't use HTML tables for layout purposes. The only possible way to change this is to make a web part zone adapter which renders the web part zone in a DIV based layout instead. The only downside to this approach is that this will break the javascript the zone uses to drag and drop web parts. This downside can be minimized if you only apply the adapter when the page is rendered to the end user, which means when the page is not rendered in edit mode. By doing this the javascrip......

96 of 18424 | WSO2 Introduces WSO2 Data Services - Mountain View, CA October 6, 2008 <<a href="http://wso2.com" target="_blank">http://wso2.com</a>>WSO2</a>, the open source SOA company, today ...

97 of 18424 | activating fEATURE FOR eACH mYsITE sITE COLLECTION - Recently I had to get a feature activated over all 800 MySite of a Farm. The approach I choose was to generate an xml list of all the MySIte URL's in my farm and use a Windows application to read the XML file and generate the appropriate activation script. a) The step to get all the site collections within the WebApplication hosting MySite is to run the command of stsadm -o enumsites -url http://moss:34078/ >C:\MySiteList.XML . This xml file would include the URL of all mysites in an XML Node. b) Assuming all your mysites are under http://moss:portnumber/sites/personal/, the next thing you need to do is simply load the XML File in an XML domdocument and generate the appropriate activat......

98 of 18424 | Astoria & IIS , HTTP 400 Bad Request on Posting Large Payloads to an astoria service - We’ve seen this in the labs and also reported by our customers on the forums, If you try to post  a large amount of data to an astoria data service , you might receive a response code Http 400 Bad Request even though the response data is valid. An ADO.NET Data Service sits on top of Windows Communication Foundation , although most of the required plumbing is hidden away from you  ,  you can still see the effects in scenarios such as this . Why do I get a generic 400 Bad Request in this case ? When the request size ( including headers ) exceeds 64 K ( 65536 bytes ) , WCF chokes on the request as this request size is greater than the limit on the maximum size of the......

99 of 18424 | Call for Review: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) is a Proposed Recommendation - 2008-10-06: The SYMM Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0), pronounced "smile." SMIL 3.0 allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. SMIL 3.0 is a modular XML application: its components may be used in other XML formats. SMIL also defines mobile profiles that incorporate features useful within the industry. Comments are welcome through 6 November. Read more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. See also W3C......

100 of 18424 | Career 2.0 Starts Monday, October 6th 2008 - I made a comment about this in a prior post, but it was really long and wordy so unless you read right to the end you would have missed the announcement. So I figured I’d post a little ‘update’ to fill everyone in on what’s been going down. Over the last seven years I’ve worked for numerous small companies here in Winnipeg. I’ve been part of some interesting projects, had some successes, some failures, and a lot of lessons learned. I’ve tested the waters of independent consulting and had great success with it. But now I’m at a point where I need to look at the next 5 to 10 years of my life and where my career fits in: what environment do I want, what technologies excite me, knowing my s......