Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.

Most of the major search engines have research units and live testing grounds for new products and features. What kinds of projects are they currently working on?

Skilled traders of bonds, commodities or other equities often leverage their bets using arbitrage to take advantage of price differences in the marketplace. With a bit of creativity, you can use arbitrage to profit from price differences in search engine advertising programs.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Can We Take SEO As a Long Term Career? - Is Flash The Future Of The Internet? - Best Way To Build A New Site - New Trends in Google Rankings - Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Facebook, and more.

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.

How do you engineer a major overhaul to your web site to increase traffic and user satisfaction? Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst describes the company's careful yet bold approach to its recent redesign in this wide-ranging interview.

Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from October 2006.

Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst Michael Ferguson continues his discussion of the company's rebranding, offering tips and suggestions for anyone considering updating or modifying a web site.

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Gadgets Now For Your Website - Is SEO a Game of Outsmarting Search Engines? - Relevant Domain Names - Business Week Article On Click Fraud, and more.

This week Ed Brill and I are co-moderating a discussion on LotusUserGroup.org. ?The topic is competitive aspects of the collaboration industry. ? I encourage you to surf over to the site, and join in the discussion. ? To start the conversation I've created a document about using tools other than email for collaboration.

If you have never visited the site before, using a Discussion Forum is a bit different than reading a blog such as this site. ?You can create a new topic of your own, as opposed to only being able to respond to the main documents the owner creates.


You can add comments to any existing topic by clicking Reply to main, or Reply here.


Please feel free to ask us anything that is on your mind. ? However, the intent is to discuss the industry, not get into specific features of one product versus another. ? Let's get creative, please share your thoughts and ideas and help make this a valuable discussion.

Which features are missing from Visual Web Developer Express? (via Mikhail Arkhipov ) Can I use Visual Web Developer Express for the project I am planning? Do I need to buy Visual Studio or is free Express edition sufficient for my needs? Which features are missing from Visual Web Developer Express? Here is what is not in VWD Express: 1. Extensibility. In Express edition you cannot install and use Web Application Projects, Web Deployment Projects, CSS Properties Window, HTML/ASP.NET Spell Checker, ReSharper and any other add-on or third party tool. 2. Class Libraries. VWD Express only supports a single type of project: Web site. You cannot add a Class Library project or a Web Controls Library project to the solution. Class libraries are popular...(read more)

I am looking forwarding to doing the keynote at the Pattern and Practices Summit today. I thought for a while about what to do… I have been into the Ajax thing recently and it is very cool, but ultimately I decided the real timeless information I had to share was going back to my roots in Framework design. Working with Krzysztof Cwalina, I distilled down 7+ years of framework design experience into 5 key principles. While these principles have a specific application to framework design, what I think makes them even more relevant to this audience it that I have seen broad applicability to software design and development as well. Not to mention I have some fun pictures and analogies ;-) · Treat Simplicity as a Feature · Know Your User · Think...(read more)

Hi Friends,

I have written axis client to consumt .NET webservice. I have to call many methods of the same ws in sequencial order of the

Skills Matter is having intensive 4-day training courses on Apache Axis2 and Web Services in

The feedback continues to be highly positive about thisseries of webcasts, so we are offereing the thirdinstallment of the Live From Redmond webcasts. These webcasts are done by actual team members working on the technology itself - so if you have a question you won't get any closer to the source than here. Upcoming Smart Client Talks Date Title Speaker Registration URL 7-Nov Live From Redmond: ClickOnce Tips and Tricks and what’s new in Orcas Saurabh Pant link 14-Nov Live From Redmond: Smart Client: Offline Data Synchronization and Caching for Smart Clients Steve Lasker link 28-Nov Live From Redmond: Client Application Services in Orcas Saurabh Pant link 4-Dec Live From Redmond: Visual Studio: Developing Local and Mobile Data Solutions with...(read more)

Two weeks ago we released the VS 2005 SP1 Beta. You candownload it for free by visiting and registering on the Microsoft Connect Site. This release contains several hundred fixes for customer reported bugs with VS 2005. It also includes built-in support for the VS 2005 Web Application Project, which we previously released earlier this year as a standalone download (SP1 adds a few additional features to it, fixes a few bug, and has some additional performance tunings for it). Before installing VS 2005 SP1 (both the Beta and final release), you'll need to uninstall any previous installs of the VS 2005 Web Application Project standalone download that you have on your machine. One bug that we've seen some developers run into is an issue where -...(read more)

Here's one that could cost you some long and puzzling debugging sessions.What's the difference betweenFoo.Bar = function() { this.number = 0; this.stuff = {}; } Foo.Bar.prototype.toString = function() { return "Bar #" + this.number + (this.stuff || ""); }andFoo.Bar = function() {} Foo.Bar.prototype.number = 0; Foo.Bar.prototype.stuff = {}; Foo.Bar.prototype.toString = function() { return "Bar #" + this.number + (this.stuff || ""); }Well, it becomes obvious when you try the following:var a = new Foo.Bar(); var b = new Foo.Bar(); a.number = 1; a.stuff.id = "a"; b.number = 2; b.stuff.id = "b"; alert(a.toString()); alert(b.toString());In the first case, you'll get "Bar...(read more)

I was talking recently with a coworker of mine about the “what” and the “how” of software projects. The “What” is the definition of the thing you are building. What customers should we go after? What markets should we serve? What competitors do we care about? What scenarios matter most? What feature should we have? The “How” is the definition of the way you build it. How should we org the team? How should we ensure quality? How do we do SCRUM, Agile development, TDD, etc? How should we ensure customer feedback gets reflected? How should track progress? Between these two areas, the what and the how, is the essence of software projects. When a project fails it is often due to one, or both of these having insufficient IQ on them. A project without...(read more)

Here's my latest tool/toy for you to download and play around with:

SoapLog for Domino

"What does it do", you ask? It monitors the web service traffic on your Domino 7.0 server!

SoapLog is a Lotus Notes/Domino DSAPI filter and accompanying database. The SoapLog filter can be copied to a Lotus Domino 7.0 server running on the Windows platform to track the contents of incoming SOAP requests, both the request and the response.

It can be very useful for tracking and debugging web services on the Domino server, and it requires no special configuration of any of the web services or databases that are already on the server. It just listens for any SOAP request and logs the transaction. Here's how you set it up:

• copy the soaplog.dll file to the Domino program directory, and SoapLog.nsf to the data directory
• Add the line -- SOAPLOG_DBNAME=SoapLog.nsf -- to the server's Notes.ini file
• Add "soaplog.dll" to the list of DSAPI filters in the server document in the Notes address book
• Restart the HTTP task on the server

That's it! All SOAP messages/web service transactions will be written to log documents in the database (see screenshots on the download page).

Version 1.0 is the initial release of this program and database. The program and database are currently unsupported but free for personal, development, and production use -- please test thoroughly before deploying to a production server for this 1.0 release. I am currently working out terms for support of the product, for companies that prefer to work with a well-supported version of this tool. The DSAPI filter itself is currently Windows-only, although I am also working on compiling a Linux version.

Instructions for setting up and using the DSAPI DLL file and database can be found in the "Using This Database" document within the database download.

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