http://kennyw.com Kenny Wolf's Thoughts of the Moment Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:44:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting last month, MSDN put together a regular series of webcasts on WCF and WF (focusing on .Net 3.5).  Here are the talks being broadcast in July: July 7th, 10:00AM (PST) Transactional Windows Communication Foundation Services with Juval Lowy July 9th, 10:00AM (PST) ... http://kennyw.com/indigo/284 Rating: There are four main food groups in Dubrovnik: pizza, pasta, seafood, and ice cream. In the pizza department, Mea Culpa is a stand-out. Cheap, large, and yummy. For 42 kuna (~5 euro), we had a mushroom and onion pizza that was big enough to feed both of ... http://kennyw.com/food/269 Rating: On our way to Castle Hill from the tram stop, Lauren noticed a fun cafe with with plush "tea-time" seating and good looking menu. We took note of the location, and after passing on the uninteresting post-museum lunch choices up in the old town we returned to ... http://kennyw.com/food/276 It turns out that in addition to great food at Volunteer Park Café you may also encounter: HermioneHusky206 Female seeking Male Age: 23 Occupation: Server Sign: Scorpio ... http://kennyw.com/food/281 The other day a customer was sending unauthenticated messages to a service and the requests were timing out over WsDualHttp. When using WsHttpBinding or NetTcpBinding, the customer received an authentication MessageFault.  Why was there no Fault returned over WsDualHttpBinding? The reason has to do with securing composite-duplex channels. WsDualHttp ... http://kennyw.com/indigo/268 Integration has arrived! http://www.tibco.com/company/news/releases/2008/press900.jsp http://kennyw.com/indigo/260 I was recently asked about the motivation for choosing asynchronous service operations in WCF (i.e. [OperationContract(AsyncPattern = true)]). If you have an operation that is blocking (accessing SQL, Channels, etc) then you should use AsyncPattern=true.  That way you'll free up whatever thread we're using to call your operation ... http://kennyw.com/indigo/258 Rating: Lauren and I went to Portland yesterday to help out the Obama campaign register voters in time for the May primary.  We got up early this morning to check out a recommendation from Mike, St. Honoré Boulangerie in Northwest Portland. We arrived at 9AM, and ... http://kennyw.com/food/267 Rating: Tonight I checked out Tidbit Bistro with Lauren, Gio and John. Tidbit is on the very north end of Broadway in a space formerly occupied by Cassis and then XO Bistro. Gio and I used to frequent Cassis, and though I only dined at XO Bistro ... http://kennyw.com/food/259 Rating: When it comes to Thai food, we are very fortunate: less than 2 blocks from our condo is arguably the best Thai food in Seattle. Yes, I've done a tournament for Thai Tom, and I enjoy Thai Tom and all of their unique flavors.  But if I ... http://kennyw.com/food/254