WebTrends hits a stride again with first tracking of Google Android. I can't help but be a bit proud of the guys for putting this together. Being Android is a major up and comer it is awesome to get a little ahead of the curve every once in a while. Often staying ahead of the... Continue reading →

I broke the build this morning as I fixed a bug at 1:12am. I didn't just break it though, I broke it in an absolutely stupid, shameful, silly way. I somehow managed to stick a semi-colon on the end of a line of code before checking in, in addition to the semi-colon that was already... Continue reading →

I finally listened to the keynote from PDC 2008. It was pretty good, nothing that I wasn’t really prepared for, but I’m sure a decent amount of cool things introduced for the Microsoft Developer out and about in the wild. I was glad to finally see the cloud computer official, etc. Overall I’m chomping at... Continue reading →

I’ve been paying attention to the PDC 2008 Website and some interesting things, as one would guess, are coming out of the conference. The two biggest pieces that I’m super stoked about are; Microsoft is going to make Windows Live ID support Open ID, the other thing is this fancy spancy Windows Azure Cloud computer... Continue reading →

Ok, now to the meaty section on WCF based Web Services. This entry is about the data contracts that hold together and describe the data the web services offer across the wire. These first few topics are solely on how to mark various classes, enumerations, and structures as a data contract. In subsequent parts we’ll... Continue reading →