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re: WF Persistence - Where [DataContract] != [Serializable]

Russell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:10:26 GMT

This article was given to me by a coworker, as he had to hear my venting due to this issue. Thanks, it describes the WCF/WF data divide well.

The kicker, for me, is that the ExtensionDataObject used for round-tripping in WCF is neither [Serializable], nor inheritable. So all the easy ways I could've made my WCF data contracts play nice with everybody are cut off. Any suggestions?

re: WF Persistence - Where [DataContract] != [Serializable]

Kelly Martens — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:03:30 GMT

Excellent subject and thinking on this Bill. Though it is in fact in its infancy I do think we will see widepsread adoption over the next few years.

re: Rescuing the Hubble

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Nice pics... thanks for sharing...

re: Chrome's EULA

NET Web Services — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:28:36 GMT

Its good news that chrome arrived but I fear it would be difficult to rank in serps now...

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re: KeyPath for component: is a Directory: . The directory/component pair must be listed in the CreateFolders table

Puneet — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:22:26 GMT

Very useful. Thanks a lot!

re: Helping a Worthy Cause

Lou — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:52:26 GMT

Thanks for re-posting this Bill - I've noticed a lot of traffic my way from your blog post here.

re: Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile

Doc H — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:13:36 GMT

What? Pushmail for Exchange for the Iphone 3G is there! Using it every day on my iphone. /DOC

re: Stuff White People Like - The Book - On Sale Tomorrow

William — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:30:44 GMT

WTF - that's really insightful. So white poeple only like white people? I wasn't aware of that but thanks for enlightening me.

re: Stuff White People Like - The Book - On Sale Tomorrow

WTF — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:01:49 GMT

Why write a full book? I can sum it up in 2 words. White people like, "white people"

re: My first hours with my Amazon Kindle

Sahil Malik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:09:13 GMT

Bill - if an ebook reader started doing a good job reading PDFs, I'd be all over it in a second!

Kindle doesn't do that.

re: God I hate Ajax

William — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:06:13 GMT

@McNaz - It's not just the browser - b/c it doesn't just happen with IE... firefox, opera both have the same Ajax issue on the pages I'm talking about.

re: God I hate Ajax

William — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:03:55 GMT

@Grant - I don't hate the technology - although that's the title - I thought I made it clear. I agree with you completely - my whole point is that in the current incarnation, more implementations suck than are good - well , more precisely, the ones that suck are way worse than the ones that don't are good.

no disagreement witcha man - it's all about the implementation

re: God I hate Ajax

William — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:02:09 GMT

@Wow - with all due respect man, if you reread what I said, I use many browsers. I think it's pretty clear that I don't think AJAX itself is evil or bad - and that as a technology, I think it's good. I agree 1000000% that there's too many bubble gummers writing code and that it's the implementations that are screwed up.

With that said, there's currently too much overuse and mistaken use. The problem isn't Ajax per se, but what people are doing with it. But like I said, I remember when people used to obsess over load times and compatibility - now it's like everything has changed to simply "Do we do it with Ajax"... and the implications suck.

To me it's a lot like Heroin - in and of itself, it's a great analgesic and has tremendous upside potential. But in practice, many that use it destroy their lives with it or at least really screw up their lives for a period of time - that's pretty much how I see Ajax. The solution isn't to eliminate opiates, it's for people to use them more wisely - the same holds for Ajax. I however, won't be holding my breath.

re: God I hate Ajax

wow.... — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:42:00 GMT

I read this article soley for the title and usually dzone has some good authors. Than I noticed your tagcloud -- silverlight, .net, c#, etc. etc. etc. You start off the article with you admitting to using IE7! What you are experiencing is not the fault off a technology but the fault of every idiot and their mother thinking that (s)he should be a programmer -- would you all please just get the *** off the net and leave the real programmers to do their jobs!? Please!? I know computers are popular now but *** -- take your non-coding asses and GTFO! Ajax as the technology it is -- background http requests is one of the better things that could have ever happened to the net.

re: God I hate Ajax

James — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:12:55 GMT

<i>Don't hate the technology, hate the implementation of that technology. </i>

Grant,

I must object. Don't hate the playa. Hate the game. Developers aren't in control of the things being asked of them. Performance is only a concern after everything crashes. Before that, management asks for feature they have seen on every other site, and, building up their in-house cred, developers generally comply -- usually by grabbing the tools most readily available, such as the ACT.

Changing the game probably means going to Silverlight and putting out to pasture the developers who won't jump on the band wagon. Then, perhaps two or three iterations later, we'll be having the same conversation about Silverlight's short comings.

On the other hand, it will be fun in a few years when we will be able to look down our noses at AJAX sites and comment on their 'old school' style.

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re: God I hate Ajax

McNaz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:10:04 GMT

Sounds like IE is your problem here.