My Day Today

[A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics]

Today I wrote a c# service that read and parsed and XML file and manipulated
other services based on using the values in the XML to evaluate http calls.

The application uses the ThreadPool to make simultaneous http calls.

What did you do today?
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[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

"A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics" <ja*****@earthlink.net>
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Today I wrote a c# service that read and parsed and XML file and
manipulated
other services based on using the values in the XML to evaluate http
calls.

The application uses the ThreadPool to make simultaneous http calls.

What did you do today?


Although I can't fathom why you'd care, I wrote a little bit of a compiler
and watched a cubs game.
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ja*****@earthlink.net

[John Young]

And I wrote a webservice for friends to list, sort and play my mp3s on my
server. They can also edit the mp3 id tags. :P

(hmmm, I wonder who the original poster is ??? (bailo?))
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try
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Linux (any version)
}
catch
{
Format (mainHardDisk)
Install (Windows2000/XP/2003)
}
// You know you want to !!!

John Young
"A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics" <ja*****@earthlink.net>
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Today I wrote a c# service that read and parsed and XML file and
manipulated
other services based on using the values in the XML to evaluate http
calls.

The application uses the ThreadPool to make simultaneous http calls.

What did you do today?
--
ja*****@earthlink.net

[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

"John Young" <polomint77@askhdg_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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And I wrote a webservice for friends to list, sort and play my mp3s on my
server. They can also edit the mp3 id tags. :P

(hmmm, I wonder who the original poster is ??? (bailo?))

Yeah, its bailo. Just one of his more creative psuedonyms.

[asj]

A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics <ja*****@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<aq******************@newsread2.news.pas.eart hlink.net>...

What did you do today?

today i pleaded with god to give people like you a reason to live
besides cross-posting to a hundred newsgroups almost every freakin'
day.

[Eddie]

ASJ and Bailo on the same message thread.. This brings back memories.. :

Today, well, I spenit it fixing up our build...
It turns out that using tlbImp to create COM callable wrappers is dangerous in the hands of some people.

That's my little bitch for the day.

Cheers

[Cron]

A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics <ja*****@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<aq******************@newsread2.news.pas.eart hlink.net>...

Today I wrote a c# service that read and parsed and XML file and manipulated
other services based on using the values in the XML to evaluate http calls.

The application uses the ThreadPool to make simultaneous http calls.

What did you do today?

0430: Woke up. Shit showered shaved. Prepared breakfast for daughter.
Secured and fed pets. Transported daughter to sitter's location (1.25
hour drive).

0700: First site visit. Customer's NetVista is down. Discovered HDD
has bad sectors. Scheduled image recovery and HDD replacement.
Transported workstation to shop so alternate engineer can complete
work order if necessary.

0730: Contaced a customer's ISP - requested an A record to point to
webserver and website I built and deployed yesterday (LAMP).

0800: At shop. Configured three Watchguard MUVPN clients (SHA/DES) for
customer's users in three different countries. NetScreen anyone?

0900: Second site visit. Troubleshot Citrix MetaFrame Presentation
Server - required tweaking ODBC drivers for SQL/SharePoint Portal
Server backend. Recommended raising bandwidth - client latency is
"icky" to say the least.

1145: Third site visit. Migrated customer's network to new T1 circuit.
Built config and flashed Cisco router. Done!

1230: Liquid lunch (I wish).

1300: Called wife at hospital. Checked on 2-day old son. Delivery
complications may keep her in the hospital until Saturday. Adjusted
schedule. Prayed.

1315: Fourth site visit. Customer (MS Exchange) email server down. DBs
corrupt. Restored priv.edb, pub.edb, and necessary logs, .stms, etc.
from tape. Ran utils. Remounted. Successful.

1445: Went for a two mile run.

1530: Muffler broken - hanging 1/2" off the ground. Improvised fix
with clothes hanger. MacGyver? No. MacBrokeAss? Yes.

1550: Fifth site visit. Customer's Novell Groupwise 5.1 server failing
Domain login/network connectivity. Checked logs. Checked
NIC/cable/switch. PINGed servers and workstations - successful. Login
continues to fail. Checked for backup. Ran DSREPAIR.nlm. Rebooted.
Login successful.

1645: Sixth site visit. Customer's WLAN down. SpeedStream 2623 router
to cable modem. Updated firmware. Reset encryption values and Shared
Key. WLAN up.

1730: Recovered daughter. Rough day - batteries on her singing truck
toy died. Stopped to purchase batteries.

1900: Prepared and shared dinner with daughter. Called wife. Fed pets.
Bathed daughter and put her to bed. Began working on eight-page report
due next Monday (I'm earning my MBA).

2200: Took a break. Scanned Google Groups - seattle.general. Responded
to your question.

[The Ghost In The Machine]

In comp.lang.java.advocacy, A Leaf Blower and A Geode Discussing Politics
<ja*****@earthlink.net>
wrote
on Thu, 13 May 2004 05:09:26 GMT
<aq******************@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink .net>:

Today I wrote a c# service that read and parsed and XML file and manipulated
other services based on using the values in the XML to evaluate http calls.

The application uses the ThreadPool to make simultaneous http calls.

What did you do today?

Feh. JBoss does most of the parsing and threadpooling. Dunno regarding
the details of the Enterprise Service Bus, as one of the requirements
thereof is *partial parsing of an XML file*. However, using SAX to
clip out part of the file might be easy enough, or one can just write
XSL to find the tag of interest and copy the subtree thereof to
the output, using XSLT (Xalan, perhaps). DOM nowadays is a bit heavy.

I can't say I've played with custom tags but presumably JSP + custom tags
is a now outdated but still effective solution for various problems.
JSP makes hooking up forms to beans simple, although it doesn't
help with the Javascript. (There are times I think Javascript
is beyond help, though. Yuck.)

Or one can go through a SOAP service. I have a very small prototype,
for example, that is basically a "cookbook" therefor -- it's a little
complicated for my liking but it works and answers the question
"What time is it". I'll have to work on integrating it with JNDI,
admittedly -- or just go full EJB with the silly thing hooking SOAP
in as a vector to a stateless or stateful session bean. Presumably
that sort of stuff should be simple, although EJB tends to specify
everything more than once, mostly because the initial setup of EJB
assumed that developer-run tools would do most of the XML generation;
I would highly prefer a more Smalltalk-like system where one can
simply make a call and it either works or it doesn't, coupled with
the ability to inquire as to what calls are available, with
parameters, documentation, and other requirements.

Another issue with EJB is that it uses binary RMI; I'd prefer JAXRPC.
But that's a minor complaint at this point, because EJB is an
established service.

I should mention JMX -- it's nice but incomplete; it needs to be
remotable. (Maybe 1.1 has that capability now?) I've not played
with JMS or JCA but know they exist.

But do feel free to try again to impress us.

As for "HTTP calls" -- no such thing. Http requests, maybe.
SOAP calls, maybe.

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