My latest article has just been published on MSDN: "Using Role-Based Security with Web Services Enhancements 2.0". Have fun!

You can now download the slides and samples from my talk at JAOO 2003 in Aarhus, Denmark. (English)

Dear German language speakers: Die Slides für meine Vorträge bei der Basta!2003 sind online.

Translation: Slides for my talks at Basta!2003 are online. (But might be of limited use for non-German speakers apart from maybe helping you with brushing up your German skills ;-)).

Have fun.

Fall's conference season has started today! Just as Clemens, I did two talks at JAOO in Denmark today, and I can tell you that it's definitely an interesting - but nevertheless fun - experience to speak at a conference where the main sponsors are Sun and Oracle and every second person wears a shirt from one of those companies.

Unfortunately, I can't attend tonight's conference party as I have to get up tomorrow at 5:00 am to fly to Basta!2003 in Frankfurt where my first talk starts at 1:45 pm. Then it's Zurich/Switzerland, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pretoria/South Africa, Zurich/Switzerland - all with a two week break in between each event. Yeah, I'm back on the track.

Thanks to Atif Azis, I'll be speaking at the Swiss .NET User Group on October 8th, 2003 at 6:30 pm in Zurich.

.NET Remoting vs. Web Services
The .NET Framework introduced two new means of distributed application development: Remoting and ASP.NET Web Services. This session presents the differences between these two remote procedure call stacks. It shows you the different technologies in regard to extensibility, interoperability, performance, scalability, and most importantly, the base type system. You will see when to choose which one and how to integrate these technologies in your applications.

I'm currently spending serveral weeks - intermitted only by a week of speaking at two great conferences (JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark and Basta in Frankfurt, Germany) - working at a client's in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe: Zurich in Switzerland.

Not only is Zurich a center of great architecture, but it also carries an influential heritage in technology: I'm staying at a hotel in walking distance of the ETH, the birthplace of programming languages like Pascal, Modula, and Oberon.