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WADL in a bottle eating noodles
Solution ·In my last entry about REST web services I talked about its biggest weakness for me: the lack of description model of REST services.
The idea of hitting an HTTP endpoint as a shot in the dark is for me quite a leap of faith, and very likely an invitation to spend hours troubleshooting.
But despair no more, enters...
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REST style with Hypermedia APIs
Solution ·Once upon a time there was SOAP. SOAP really was a multi-vendor response to CORBA. It even share the same type of acronym, derived from object. Objects are so 90’s dude… The S in SOAP stands for Simple by the way. Have a go at a bare WSDL and try to repeat in your head that it is...
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ePub Factory NuGet package
Solution ·I’ve been publishing this NuGet package.
Ok, so why do yet another ePub library on NuGet when there are already a few?
Well, there aren’t that many actually and none are Portable Class Library (PCL).
So I’ve built an ePub library portable to both Windows 8+ & .NET 4.5.1. Why not Windows Phone? My library is based...
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Applied SOA Series
Solution ·I’ve written (a year and a half ago actually) a blog series around all the concerns and issues around implementing SOA in an Enterprise Solution:
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Windows NT vs VMS
Solution ·Very interesting article from Mark Russinovich dating from Decembre 1998:
Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story
Russinovich explains how David Cutler lead Windows NT after leaving digital and how he and his team borrow from their work on VAX machines.
The article goes on explaining the similarities between Windows NT & VMS (OS of...