This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM, and could not sleep anymore, so I decided to work on my publishing tool for my site Tech Head Brothers. I finally managed to publish directly from Word 2003 in a secure way. The website exposes a publishing web service that uses WS-Policy, to specify that it needs Signature and Encryption using a X.509 certificate. When the user hits the publish button, the tool:

• Transform the XML generated by Word 2003, e.g. to include pictures, colorize source code...
• Zip the XML document and all referenced files (pictures, zip)
• Attach the zip file using DIME to the SOAP context
• Add signature and encryption to the SOAP context
• Call the web service

During my trip to Barcelona, last week, I met Atif Aziz, President and Program Director, and Roman Mathis, Vice President and Membership Director, of the <strong>.NET Managed User Group of Switzerland</strong>. We had several interesting discussions and I finally decided to join them in their user group as I am working in Zürich, Switzerland and they are located in the same city.

The 3 upcoming Events organized by the user group are:

For sure there is a new version but I think the most important annoucement is the Skype API. Right now it is not sure what we will get, but I already see lots of possibilities for that.

Today I am flying to Barcelona - Spain and leaving the horrible weather here in Zürich - Switzerland (same at home in Mulhouse - France). I am attending Microsoft Connect Event, and really hope to see a bit of blue sky there because it has been to much time without sun here.

Zürich, horrible weather, 8 degrees, raining, but a Ferrari

Nice flight, at least here the sky is blue

WHOAUH !! Waking up in such conditions is a pleasure