Here is how you change MaxJsonLength using web.config:

  <system.web.extensions>
    <scripting>
      <webServices>
        <jsonSerialization maxJsonLength="2147483647"></jsonSerialization>
      </webServices>
    </scripting>
  </system.web.extensions>

 
Cheers!

http://www.spotifyfriends.com

http://www.spotilist.com

We've only just begun.

Joost has finally launched their flash-based site. The old application proved to be the wrong way and the company has greatly rearranged the company and the technology. Even though it is the right way to go, competition vastly increased. Joost will now be competing against more famous video streaming sites such as Youtube and Hulu. Oh, by the way, Youtube announced a deal with CBS about streaming full length episodes of famous shows. The ad-based revenues will be shared.

Via Techcrunch,
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/13/joost-turns-on-its-all-flash-website-is-anybody-watching

Update:

Read this great summaryr for more insights:

http://www.webtvwire.com/joost-becomes-web-flash-site-drops-plug-in-altogether-can-it-compete-with-hulu/

I made a exhaustive research and figured out that each Who is server maintains a list of certain domain types. For example,  Whois.net can whois only .COM, .NET and .ORG domains.

Many posts over the internet, including blogs.msdn.com,  also says that to query a who is database one should connect to the whois server through a TCP/IP conenction (usually via port 43).

All the above issues make Whois action fairly difficult to perform. Luckily, today I came across a very nice web site which provides a Whois SOAP web service.  To see the details of the service check this link:

http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?op=GetWhoIS

This web service searches all the who is databases to look up the domain name you provide. Therefore, you will not need to search several who is databases.

To Whois a domain name, you should pass a 'hostname' parameter to the service:

http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?Hostname=Microsoft.com

You can use this web service simply via a GET or a POST method as well as making a reference to it via Visual Studio and call its GetWhoIS metho. As I mentioned in the previous post (about REST web services), I prefer to get the who is answer using XElement.Load method. For example we may write the following method for whoising:

public static string WhoIs(string hostname)
{
XElement WhoisResult = XElement.Load(

"http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx/GetWhoIS?HostName=microsoft.com");
return WhoisResult.ToString();
}

Each Who is server returns a different response. Therefore, to develop a method which indicates wheather a domain name exits or not, we should look for a common string value in the WhoIS response. For example the 'NAME SERVER' seems to be a common string. There fore, a domain lookup function can be written this way:

public static bool IsDomainTaken(string hostname)
{
return WhoIs(hostname).ToUpper().Contains("NAME SERVER");
}

As I told you, this web service seems to query several WhoIS server, thus the GetWhoIS method is a little bit time consuming.

P.S. Try to Whois Microsoft.com, the result is pretty funny:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.TOTALLY.SUCKS.S3U.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM


Bye for now.

Oct 13th 08 Update: If you're here to find out how to download myspace songs that come from Project Play List, please read "ProjectPlayList just made it easy".

Step 1: Download and install EffeTech HTTP Sniffer

EffeTech HTTP Sniffer can be found here.

Go ahead and install this program.  During the installation, it'll ask if you want to install WinPcap as well - yes, you need it.  WinPcap is an important component for sniffers.  So go ahead and complete this step, and move on.

Step 2: Configure the Sniffer

Open the program, there's a green adapter button, click on it, and select which adapter or network card you're sniffing.  (To give you an idea, if you're using wireless, you should choose the wireless card, and click "OK")

Step 3: Open the myspace profile

Open the myspace profile, simple as that.

Step 4: Start Sniffing

Go back to the sniffer.  Click on the tiny little green go/arrow button to start the sniffer program.

Step 5: Click on the song

Now go back to the profile window, and click on the song you'd like to download.  I don't think I need a picture for that, do I?

Step 6: Wait.......

Well, you don't have a choice, you gotta wait - and this step is actually crucial.  Wait until the song you'd like to download has finished playing.  It might take awhile, so I don't know.. go have a cup of tea or something?

Step 7: Go back to the sniffer, and save the MP3

This part is probably the most technical part.  On your sniffer, you'll see a list of captured items, one of them is the song.  Now how do you know which one?  Well, lets see...

• it always comes from cachexx-.music01.myspace.com
• usually it has the longest file length
• the file type could be either *.mp3 or *.txt

I hope that narrows it down.  There really shouldn't be so many in the list... that's why we're going through all the steps in this order.

simply right click on the item, you'll see "save the file" - go ahead and save it.

Step 8: Enjoy the music

There's no step 8.... if you waited for the music to finish playing, you should now have a complete version of the song.  Enjoy the music!

Oh, By the Way!

Did you know downloading or possession of pirated music is a federal crime?

http://techmagazine.ws/full-web-20-api-list/

On PHP

http://symfonydeveloper.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/creating-a-facebook-app-with-symfony/

http://www.zend.com///forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=14154

http://no.php.net/soap

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/07/03/php_amazon_soap.html

At the time of writing this post, .NET has no specific facility to work with REST services. Though, some services over the web provide information in REST format. For example, http://www.geonames.org (that provides gegraphic information) has a lot of free web services to get geographical information. The other day, I needed to use these services to let the end user choose his/her country and then state from two drop-down lists. So I had to figure out how to consume such services. In this post we will use the following service as an case-study:

http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo?lang=it&country=DE

If you navigate to this link you will get the following result:

As is seen, the resulting XML is pretty straight forward.  With knowing that REST web services work with GET and POST methods, it is nearly nothing except working with xml!

For example, to query a REST service, like the one I mentioned above, we can use LINQ's XAML functionality.  The XElement class (declared in System.Linq.XML) provides a Load method that can retrieve an XML data from a url with GET  method:

XElement rootXml = XElement.Load("http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo?lang=it&country=DE");

var Countries = from C in rootXml.Elements()
select new { Code = (string)C.Element("countryCode"),
Name = (string)C.Element("countryName") };
foreach (var x in Countries)
Console.WriteLine("{0}  {1}", x.Code, x.Name);
Console.ReadKey();

After retrieveing the full xml, you can extract any kind of information you want. no matter how complex is it!

Adding or modifying information using POST method is a bit more complex. First we have to obtain a channel by which we may POST the information. Then we have to create an instance of data entity in XML format. Finally we have to POST data through the channel.

To get access to REST service we use a HttpWebRequest since it let's use the POST method and let us specify the type of information we are posting.

HttpWebRequest channel = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo");
channel.Method = "POST";
channel.ContentType = "text/xml";

HttpWebRequest class provides a stream to which we can write information :

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(channel.GetRequestStream());

Then we can create a concerete entity to post:

XElement country = new XElement("country" ,

new XElement("countryCode", "AUS"),

new XElement("countryName" , "Australia"),

....

);

Finally we just need to save this XElement object to the stream we obtained from HttpWebRequest:

country.Save(sw);

This post shows how to deal with REST web services, or any other resource that let us work it in a POST/GET manner. Thanks to Linq to XML working with such services is now too easy.

Note:
Wakoopa is a dutch startup from 2007 with $1M in funding.

My friend and super-entrepreneur Jonas Berggren has recently launched Giversign, an digital version of the traditional letter mark. Giversign is maintained by the company Asaasco (a software as a service company) and managed by Linus Bille.

The famous pink ribbon campaign (supporting research against breast cancer) is currently active in Sweden and Giversign is the solution to show your digital support! Check it out - the digital pink ribbon!

Anyone want to bet against this not beeing a success? Well done guys.

Google is sponsoring the satellite Geo-1 that will deliver images (to Google's map services) with a resolution down to 50 cm. Scary and fantastic

Have a look at Wired (english) and Nätkoll (Swedish).

Text ads

Techcrunch reports that Google has added text ads to Google Maps. Google's market cap has been halfed lately, guess they need to step it up a notch.

I remember only a few years ago online DVD rentals were only available by mail, like Netflix.  Or it could be by mail, plus in-store exchange like Blockbuster.  Nowdays there's another apporach - you don't have to wait, just download the movie(s) you want to watch from their website for a small monthly fee - and that's the thing I'm going to talk about here.

This is my experience with Netflix...

The online access service from Netflix is very convenient, but fewer selection to choose from - most of them are old, boring movies that you already can see on regular channels on cable television (by "regular" I mean non-movie channels).  So if you plan to get Netflix just to download the latest new releases, well, you're going to disappoint most likely.

And then there's the speed.  If you have a slower bandwidth, your video quality will suffer, and you cannot manually ask for a higher birate.  However, because of this, your streaming shouldn't lag, either.  There is another way around getting a better quality video though...

Since Netflix uses a web browser to play your movies, that means whatever the browser receives, that piece of information can be transferred onto a different location, too.  In other words, all you have to do is find the URL of that movie on Netflix's server, and download it onto your computer.  But how, you ask?  Simple - just click on "play" to play the movie you want to watch, let it load the movie just a bit, and then on your browser right click, go to "source code" or "view source".  In there you'll find three different birates for the same movie - birate 500, 1000, 2200 - each birate corresponds to a specific URL adress for the movie... and of course, you want to download the highest quality for the movie.  So Just copy the URL, and download it with... I don't know, Flashget?  Or Windows Media Player?

So there you go... a better quality video ready for you to watch.

After you download a media file from Netflix onto your HDD, the file will have to validate its media usage rights first before viewing - that means it'll ask for your netflix account before you can watch it.  However, tools like TuneBite can remove that protection.

Fruux.com is a new web service that let you synchronize address book, calendar and bookmarks (with more to come!) to their servers. I'm currently using it to add yet another backup option for addresses. All you need to do to start syncing is install a simple preference pane and create an account.

Currently the service is in free beta and OsX only! Go give it a spin: http://www.fruux.com/

dArio

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html

Axis2 is bundled with a set of tools in order to make users' life easier

SoapUI

http://www.soapui.org

free and open source desktop application for working with web services

WSCEP

http://wscep.sourceforge.net/

Old and unsupported but useful for sending raw SOAP messages. You can view WSDL and soap xml messages here.

NetBeans WS

* Simple Services
* Application Integrated Services
* Framework Services

Simple Services
If your web service method does simple straight forward functionality then it known to be a simple service. Consider an example a client needs some data to be viewed from your site and your web service does some queries to database to achieve its task. This logic is quiet straight forward even though there might be thousands lines of code and complex coding. Simple services are commonly done for single server to client communication.

Application Integrated Services
Integration Services comes under when more than two servers communicates with each other. Consider a situation where more than one company needs to be involved in a transaction. This situation occurs when more than one server (with web service running) acts on the result data from other server or more than one web service involved in giving the result data. In such cases a web service application needed to act as a middle man or intermediate services because the servers involved may be in different architectures and the web application written may be in different component architectures.

Framework Service
Framework services means giving plug-in to the application. For example take Microsoft BizTalk server. This framework supports plug-in in the form of web services. The work flow solution developer creates for the BizTalk server allows the inclusion of web service for expansion to already established processes.

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Eine komplette Beschreibung der WSDL ist im New Features Guide der Dokumentation enthalten:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12844_01/doc/bip.1013/e10416/bip_webservice_101331.htm#BABHEHEJ.

Eine Beschreibung des veröffentlichten Web Service API kann ebenfalls in der Dokumentation nachgelesen werden:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12844_01/doc/bip.1013/e10416/bip_webservice_101331.htm

Eine Übersicht der Erweiterungen des API in der aktuellen Version 10.1.3.4 findet man in Tim Dexter's Blog.

Wer sich dafür interessiert, wie Web Service des BI Publisher aus Oracle Forms aufgerufen werden können, findet eine Beschreibung hier. <JM>

It's on Thursday and it's about Scalability and Performance of Web Services.

Look at who will be on. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress (and behind this blog). Paul Bucheit, one of the founders of FriendFeed and the creator of Gmail (he's also the guy who gave Google the "don't be evil" admonishion). Nat Brown, CTO of iLike, which got six million users on Facebook in about 10 days.

All three have faced huge scalability problems head on. All three are developers and architects who actually have built systems that have built great reputations online.

I'm totally out of my league and as I do more and more research on the topic I realize just how out of my league I am.

But, one good thing about doing stuff online is that:

1. I can admit I'm over my head and get help from you.
2. I just need to know enough to be dangerous to get a conversation going between these three guys.
3. I'm not the only interviewer here. You will take over and fill in the pothole in my own knowledge (we'll get you involved via Skype).

It's free. It's open to you.

So, since I'm clueless about the topic, what would you ask these guys about how to build scalable and performant Web services, especially given that tomorrow's services are probably going to be glued together from a variety of services?

Oh, and thanks to Rackspace for sponsoring this webinar (we're filming it at the excellent Revision 3 studios in San Francisco).

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