Spent time w/ C# and SOAP today. I rewrote this ASP/VB/SOAP example using C#. Wow is .NET way easier than manually writing out an XML packet, making a request, parsing said XML packet using VBScript… plus you get all the obvious .NET implied features like automatic creation of WSDL descriptors and generated SOAP request and response sample packets. I’ll post my refactoring of the above example in C# soon.
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ER1
via meerkat via robots.net, ER1, “.. the first-ever personal robot system that can be trained to do useful and fun things around your home or office. The ER1 features a flexible design with all the hardware you need to create the ultimate robot.”
partners site
Putting the finishing touches on a site for my wife’s employer, hope to go live w/ this soon, which will eventually live here: http://www.awomansconcern.org/partners. Feedback?
Jeremy’s video mail application
Jeremy’s put up a video mail application on his blog… Jim and I were talking about how cool it would be to send not just a Flash movie to a mail box, but to actually send a *live* Flash video to a mailbox. Would it be possible to send an email to a user w/ an embedded Flash movie which calls a remote server on open of the email… which then alerts let’s say a salesperson that so and so has opened the email… the salesperson could then start a dialog w/ the person via Flash MX Communication Server. Freaky (if someone could recognize that a) you opened an email from them and b) that they could then talk to you from your inbox), but cool.
create GUID’s using ASP
Created an ActiveX dll today to create GUID’s for FootJoy.com orders. Course, it was pretty easy since this article, entitled “Build a GUID generating component”, essentially does it for me.
Registering and unregistering components is a bear, the scripts on this site make it easier.
Carlson Orchards
Went to Carlson Orchards today (a beautiful crisp fall New England day) with Martha, Cynthia, Eric, Cathy and Jeanette to pick apples (and got to pick raspberries too!). Got pictures to prove it.
stored procedures, XPATH & ASP
Working on Phase II of the FootJoy site, today I used pseuo-SOAP(really just sending an receiving XML packets that conform to the SOAP specification using the MS XMLHTTPRequest object, which I guess would make it SOAP, wouldn’t it?), Stored Procedures, and XPATH to connect two systems. Have to remind myself that sometimes I do learn new stuff at work.
Roomba Intelligent FloorVac
From Rodney Brooks, head AI guy @ MIT, Roomba Intelligent FloorVac, out of his company, IRobot.
A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications
from Slashdot: “A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications“, other valuable things on the site include a list of web application security white papers, a web application vulnerability scanner written in Java, and Filters, a project whose goal is “.. to offer a set of tools that will allow developers building web applications to adopt secure practices in a complimentary way to the tools and technologies that they are developing today.”
LEGO Ultimate Collector Star Destroyer
LEGO Ultimate Collector Star Destroyer [from slashdot] Anyone else notice that starwars.com sets a cookie called “Wookie-Cookie”? 🙂