Scott Hanselman

I've been seriously considering moving my home phone service over to Vonage, which will run all my phone calls as Voice over IP (VoIP). 

However, today an ad showed up in the mail for AT&T CallVantage Service, which appears to be the EXACT SAME THING.  It's $19.99 for the first 6 months, then $39.99 a month - which is more than the $30 I spend now.

Vonage is $30 a month with unlimited long distance.  Vonage is also apparently pissed off and suing AT&T as Vonage and "Vantage" share too many letters.

I have a few questions for you, dear reader:

• Is this the flat-out end of the traditional phone company?
• Are any of you using Vonage or CallVantage and what are your impressions?
• Have you plugged the Analog Adapter BACK into your home phone jack to spread the service throughout the house on the existing copper?

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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What a fantastic idea.  It only took five years.  XMLSpy Home Edition - free. 

I'm guessing someone blogged it last week (I gave up on catching up on blogs since I was almost three weeks behind), but there's now a free home edition of xmlspy. Many of the cool features, including the schema editor, are available. However, the web services support, primarily the WSDL editor, remain only a part of the enterprise edition. [DevHawk]

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Ok...I know it's a File Not Found Exception...I wonder what file it was looking for? :)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Is it just me, or do you visit the Microsoft Hardware site every week or so, just to see if the $150 Wireless Keyboard/Mouse kit that you to see if it's been deprecated?

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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My buddy and co-worker Patrick Cauldwell is teaching a new class on Web Services Theory at OIT Portland on 185th and Walker.  It'll be Monday and Wedsnesday night at 6pm.  Patrick and I worked together in conceiving this class, and we are hoping to make it a three-part series: Web Services Theory, Web Services Applied, and Web Services in the Enterprise.

This is a class that you could send folks from your company to, they just need to enroll in OIT.  It's usually very straightforward and the class is inexpensive.  Definitely a bargain and a great way to learn about Web Services from a Web Services Architect at Corillian. Patrick also co-wrote a book from Wrox on Web Services, and deisgned the XML and Web Services curriculum at STEP Technology back in the day.  (Disclaimer: This class is not affiliated with Corillian in any way, it's given at the Oregon Insititute of Technology, a university in the Oregon State System of Higher Education.)  Spread the word!

I'll be teaching CST 407 Web Services Theory at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) this summer.  The class is Monday and Wednesday evenings for 4 weeks, June 21nd - July 14th.  Registration is open if you are interested.  I'll be focusing on the theorectical aspects of Web Services and Service Orientation, so if you're interested in getting a good grounding in that part of Web Services, come on down! [Patrick Cauldwell]

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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