July 2009 Entries
del.icio.us Tags: SOA Technorati Tags: SOA Today I had added a Service Reference to my Web Project and after creation, I did not see the Proxy class file. This was my first time creating a Service Reference which is the new way to do it in .NET 3.5 vs. the older Web Reference option that uses an .asmx when you right-click your web project. Anyway, it turned out that duh, I simply needed to simply show all files in Solution Explorer. I’m not quite sure why it’s hidden in the first place but...
Technorati Tags: Tools del.icio.us Tags: Tools Sun’s VirtualBox virtual application just blows away Microsoft’s Virtual Machine and it’s free also. And its so packed filled with features, much more than Microsoft’s VM solution. After you’ve installed Sun VirtualBox and got an OS running on it make sure you install the guest add-ons or else you’ll have to click Ctrl to escape out of your virtual machine when in it. Then to share a folder you can do it 2 ways. You can do it via the settings when the...
Technorati Tags: Rants,Opinion,Management I often see this in job descriptions for Software Developer positions. I don’t know about you but to me this kind of description is just getting ridiculous these days and I’m seeing this language more and more. I mean is this kind of statement really necessary? We’re all adults and professionals here. Personally when it’s that strongly stated in such a passive aggressive tone, it turns me off. Yea yea, you’re telling me your environment is hard core and extremely high pressured. Wonderful, as I woke up this morning I was thinking wow, I really...
Technorati Tags: jQuery,ASP.NET,JSON Recently I was working on a small project where we wanted to make requests to go get some data and pass it back via XML or JSON to a jQuery control. So I picked out a control that I thought would work (as it had hooks there for init, load, and other callback slots) and then thought ok, how the hell am I going do this. Having never really created my own or used any HttpHandler (.ashx) before, I found out that this would be the way to do this. The Goal: Make XML or...
