Yearly Archives: 2010

WCF 4.0

General, WCF

As the tour is now concluded and we are doing business as usual I figured it is time to post some promised source code and powerpoint material. If you just joined us, the final Jayway seminar of the spring season was on Windows Identity Foundation and a short roundup of new features in WCF 4.0. Stefan Severin MC:d the WIF section while I did the presentation on WCF 4.0.

So what IS up with WCF 4.0?  My three main points were the following:

  1. Simplified Configuration
  2. Full implementation of WS Discovery
  3. A turn-key RoutingService

My full presentation in attached and I also submit some source code, largely based on Aaron Skonnard’s excellent MSDN article with minor modifications to show the difference between WCF3.5 and WCF4 in terms of configuration.

References:

Presentation

Source Code

Aaron Skonnard’s introduction to WCF 4.0

Windows Phone 6.1

BOOL, Evil

I managed to lose my employer’s Nokia N82 and as punishment by my boss he stuck me with an HTC Touch Cruise Windows Phone Classic 6.1 phone that nobody had wanted to use since 2008. I have tweeted about my findings with the hashtag #punishmentphone.

In short, the experience has been mixed. Synchronization with Google Apps works like a charm with e-mail, contacts and calendar and the messaging function is quite OK in the way e-mail works and the SMS part has conversations just like the iPhone. Sadly, though, the Windows Mobile general feel remains with very bad tactile feedback from the touch interface and a borderline unusable virtual keyboard and having a Windows interace on a phone means that user stories like “Create new SMS” or “Make a phone call” be at least a few clicks too far away for comfort. Oh, and another pet peeve: When the phone boots, it throws the SIM-card PIN-code dialog at me first, but that gets hidden by the WinMo desktop and I have to go in to the comm manager and disable the phone and reenable it to get the PIN dialog to a place where I can actually punch the numbers in. WinMo has improved since before, though as the phone has only died on me once so far for no reason, which is vastly better than a QTek S100 I wrestled with years before.

NewID

Uncategorized

Many of the companies in the former Way Group have now fusioned under the name Jayway, among them my beloved Dotway.

My dear employer has gone from being the key part in a cluster of separate expert companies (Dotway being the finest in .NET, Jayway ruling the world of Java, Testway laying down the law in the world of testing and Leadway striving forward in project management with Realway soldering on (sic) in the embedded systems field)  and fusioned ourselves into one formidable entity under the name Jayway. To this end we are all gathered under the jayway.com domain and all previous references to Dotway should now be pronounced Jayway.