December 2005 Entries

The World of SOA

I saw this post today and I was blown away by the number services that will be available, 30,000. Wow

Nigeria and Cheap Laptops

Dare posts On the $100 Laptop and Africa and the post evoked a couple of responses. Just to level-set with everyone, I'm Nigerian and this isn't only by association i.e.having a Nigerian last name. I'm just as “Nigerian“ as the next “authentic“ Nigerian you can find. I definitely see where Dare is coming from, afterall I remember being in a conversation with someone who considered themselves enlightened. We were discussing the misuse of money in the US. This individual actually...

Say it ain't so

The Web rocks. Two years ago Clemens posted this dllhost.exe.config dilemma fixed, at last -- by Microsoft. I had to look into something today and it definitely works so I'll summarize again: Specify a directory as your COM+ applications root directory Place a file named application.manifest in this directory - the file must be named this Place a file named application .config in this directory - application.manifest forces the application to look for application.config hence this file must also...