Web Services, Web Services, Web Services....

So have the .NET WCF based Web Services gotten too complicated? I mean they say Web Services, but really they want to say Services. They have Web Servers, Windows Services, Stand Alone services, etc. Services is becoming a generic term to umbrella over any communication service. Hence, Windows Commmunication Services.

I wanted to write a simple Web Service in .NET 4.0 and after fiddling with it for a few minutes, I just gave up. The .NET web.config file are starting to become an art and a skill requiring an explicit mention on the resume. It's a skill in itself to be able to understand the web.config file. To edit it, is another level of skill. One can't just go in a web.config file and change things around. If your projects service didn't get added properly, you don't just go around and try to correct that in the web.config. You hope to delete all service related items and re-add the service.

I added a new service to a project and something wasn't add properly. So, it would not compile. As a result, I removed the service and it left entries in the web.config file. It would still not compile. So I manually deleted all service related nodes. Then the project compiled. Then I added the service again. This time, it would run but wouldn't show me any method on the browse page. It talked about modifying the web.config to allow method display. After a minute, I realized that that is something I don't know.

So while it was easy to write Web Services in 2.0, 3.0 with older compilers, the new WCF based services are something that require some research and reading.

I will spend time reading about the WCF to learn about these. I'll be blogging about those soon.

Another Sunday

Here we are and it's another Sunday. I was just reading my previous post. It's funny how that post was written when it was rainy and I was wishing for summer. Today it's summer. And it's too hot and you break a sweat just walking to the Church building. And I was wishing thinking after the previous post that it would be nice to have a cool breezy day. Of course, drizzle and real cold temperatures aren't desirable. But slight cool wind at 65-70 is really nice. A little nippy....

Beautiful Sunday

A new day. A Sunday. Time to go to church! :) Well, getting ready to get out the door.

It's been raining or been rain-like the whole week. Kinda has that gloomy look. We were wondering if London is like this all the time, that would be pretty weird.

Anyway, the next week is forecast for rain again. Hopefully, the rain will go away and it will get sunny and bright and summerlike.

:)

Jessica Simpson

So Jessica Simpsons hasn't made the news lately.

By lately, the meaning is in the last one week. Why was her relationship with Romo so doomed. Why was everyone so upset with them vacationing? I don't understand it. What was the problem with it?

Poor girl has been making the news lately for all these different relationships. Hopefully, she'll make the album and focus on music. She can sing pretty well.

Just reading the news today it dawned on me that Jessica hadn't been mentioned for a while.

Cold Weather

The weather has been so cold lately that getting out has not been fun. Normally, one could go out to a restaurant over the weekend or go watching a movie, but this cold has made it hard to want to leave the warm indoors.

This has also taken a toll on other fun activities. On the plus side, it has allowed me to stay home and play some guitar and get some recording done. I was actually able to record some stuff during the day with the amp mic'd instead of being DI'd.

Fun stuff, really. I wonder how cold is it in the bahamas right now. Or the other tropical places. I wonder if many people go this time of year. Maybe holidays but beginning of the year sounds a little hard since most work place would be eager to get to start working. To make money.