Simon Fell > Its just code

Tuesday, March 05, 2002

Wrapping up a number of changes, fixes & improvements resulting from the WSDL Interop meeting last week, there's a new beta of PocketSOAP 1.3, and an alpha version of the new WSDL wizard tools. The WSDL tools will generate you a complete VB6 based project, from a WSDL service description, it supports both rpc/encoded and document/literal based services, and will generate classes and serializer for complexType defined in the WSDL/XSD.
< 12:54:50 PM # more elsewhere > Mauro Picotto - Live At Trance Energy 17 - 02 - 01 - Ipz (Tag's Trance Trip - A Progressive Journey into Next Generation Radio)

Updated round 3 results for groups D & E
< 10:48:33 AM # more elsewhere > DivideByZero - Live From The SubSonix Annual New Years 2002 (Encore) (Tag's Trance Trip - A Progressive Journey into Next Generation Radio)

Paul Fletcher: "FYI, the Yahoo Groups outage was caused by the RAID on the main Oracle database blowing up. The hot standby has been offline because of a bad CPU, so the database had to be rebuilt. Which takes time with 40+ million users." [Scripting News] Doh!, not a very hot standby then. This reminds me of a project I worked on back in my process control days, there was a controller system, with a hot standby processor, everything worked fine until the code in one got out of sync with the other, at which point if there was a failure, it wouldn't switch over because it decided it wasn't safe, as the code didn't match (not entirely unreasonable) however what was entirely unreasonable, is that it wouldn't flag this situation as soon as it happens, it only flags it if it tries to fail over. I leant back then, that if you have reduant systems, recovery plans, etc, you have to test them, on an ongoing basis. This gets you into the interesting land of how to simulate failures.
< 9:17:41 AM # more elsewhere > Iio - Rapture (Riva Mix) (Tag's Trance Trip - A Progressive Journey into Next Generation Radio)

Douglas Adams. "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of." (Courtesy: Quotes of the Day) [Binary by Accident] One of my all-time favorite quotes.
< 7:56:01 AM # more elsewhere > Sasha And John Digweed - Northern Exposure 2 (East Coast Edition) (Tag's Trance Trip - A Progressive Journey into Next Generation Radio)

Part 2 of the BDG for WSDL is now available. The focus this time is on adding XML schema information.[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog]
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