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Biff Gaut is continuing his tradition of mixing humor with some good technical content as he attends the PDC. Over the past several PDC's, Biff has always been able to sprinkle his dry sense of humor into the mix of his daily reports on what he
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A timely article appeared in the NY Times today ( link ) regarding Parallel computing as the next key factor in keeping up with the ever demanding needs of getting things done faster. As the article points out, the single CPU processor can't address
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One thing I can say about SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007)development is it sucks. The tools are weak from creating to debugging. Something that literally took about 15 minutes in straight ASP.NET took 3+ hours yesterday. So, I'm rethinking my perspective
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So, I was looking at Google Reader and noticed a link in the upper right - Offline (new).. What's that? Turns out, Google has a project called "Gears" that provides Javascript hooks that will interface with a few locally running services: Cache, DB, and
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A little while back Martin sent me a question on some of the examples in Chapter 10 of our book ( Pro WCF ). The point of the question was how to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using COM. The root of the capability lies in the
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The Microsoft ESB Guidance, Co-authored by Neudesic and released back in December 2006 in a "partner only" set of bits, VPC, documents, has been released to the public up on CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/esb This is CTP code with lot's of good patterns
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One of my peers, Curt Peterson, that's extremely articulate on SOA, ESB, and general services, is presenting a webcast on 5/16/2007 - 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT. https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=117593 Join Neudesic’s Enterprise Solution Architect/Distinguished
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I didn't really think of the connection until I read this post from the Oak Leaf folks... http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/linq-featured-in-redmond-developer-news.html dBase, then Clipper (from Nantucket) was my first development environment on
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Here, in the continued foray into LINQ and the 3.5 (Orca's) release, is an implementation of LINQ over NHibernate. http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/03/16/Linq-for-NHibernate.aspx Oren Eini provides a starting point, if not a great example of how LINQ
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It seems the LINQ guys have done a great job of optimization inside of the LINQ namespace (System.Linq). http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2007/03/28/fast-switching-with-linq.aspx If you take a look at this post, then subsequent comments and a
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This is a compelling platform, if it works, and it’s now going open source in hope of garnering a greater number of developers contributing and using. The same folks built a DotNetNuke ("DNN") administration console based upon this. WinForms Over Web
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NDepend has been around for a while. The author of the tool has really done a great job with the 2.0 (in beta now) release. Very cool looking graphs, navigation panel, and query capabilities. If you’ve ever had to take someone elses crap code and
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Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled . Doing so causes a number of non-optimal things to happen including: 1) The compilation of ASP.NET pages takes longer (since some batch optimizations are disabled)
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Nice repository of MsBuild tasks. The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild. msbuildtasks.tigris.org .
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Here’s a site from Microsoft covering Microsoft’s AJAX implementation support from a client and server perspective. There’s also a section on using WCF with ATLAS here: http://atlas.asp.net/docs/atlas/doc/wcf/default.aspx Roadmap to
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