Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
I am working with Hammad Rajjoub and with Rick Garibay as a technical editor on their new Windows Server App-Fabric book which is now available for pre-order. http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book The book is well organized and is written from a developer's point of view with and end to end hands-on discussion on app-fabric. It's goal is to…
Are you A) a Scientist/researcher/student/ looking for the right enterprise platform for your next big scientific project? B) a developer/architect who wants to learn cloud computing with windows Azure and would like to go beyond the Hello World Apps? C) an hobbyist interested in Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project and see it's implementation D)…
Here is a short step by step guide on how to get your WCF service to perform Message and Transport level security over SSL with user name and password. I ran into this recently and thought should document it along with source code to provide reference for the rest of us. 1. If your development…
A while ago I did a blog post on WCF-ASMX interoperability which came out from an experience I had in service collaboration with a partner. In a recent conversation with Jeff Bergman, a friend and co-worker, there was a question of WCF or not to WCF on a project which requires similar service interop and…
The Large Hadron Collider was created to help unlock the secrets of the universe. And also to create a working SOA implementation. (SOAFacts.com) In a recent all-things-technology dinner conversation with a friend and developer extraordinaire Rashid, we talked about his recent purchase, Thomas Erl’s Service-oriented architecture: concepts, technology, and design. During this discussion he rightfully…
I will be teaching a three day WCF course at the UCSD Extension campus on Lusk Blvd, San Diego. The first class is this coming Saturday. If you are interested, further details and enrollment information can be found here. Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) CSE-40114 Credit: 3 units Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new…
Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet. In this geekSpeak webcast, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development kit (SDK), addresses how to implement RESTful interfaces (available remotely and…
Following is the list of WCF out-of-the-box bindings, brief information about them (from MSDN) and the link which points to further details. I have ordered them according to the frequency of use in my opinion, YMMV. BasicHTTPBinding Represents a binding that a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service can use to configure and expose endpoints that…
A comparison of Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2 and Sun Project Caroline. Cloud Computing View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ec2 appengine) Thanks to Rashid Kamran for pointing me to it.
For those who use Windows Communication Foundation extensively know that unlike SOAP based services, there is a lack of REST services contractual support in WCF. In lieu of this need, I have started this project, WADL on CodePlex, to build a tool which generates code for RESTFul Web services and RESTFul Web service clients from…