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Before going full blown production with a Solution, there are times that you want to validate technical, functional, acceptance, or even general interest in a solution. I find it helpful to clarify what the terms imply and what the primary focus is of
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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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Bobby Wolf basically points out, which many realists that have worked with ESBs, MOM, Services (SOAP) have already figured out - that an ESB is just a tool and not the answer to having a Mature SOA. Just as Web Services (SOAP over HTTP) has been viewed
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This is a bit unsettling? How many other "Company" have no idea if the personal information of their clients, users, partners are being taken. The following is taken from an email sent to Monster.com users in regards to the recent uncovering of what turns
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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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Well yesterday's bad reporting is clarified by the Skype team. As for the root cause the Skype team squarely assumes the responsibility and doesn't point any fingers at other vendors for issues they just didn't test or code for in the scenario. From the
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This is just bad reporting. They blame too many login attempts resulting from windows update causing reboots. Are they kidding? So, too many users logging on causing Skype to crash is Microsoft's fault now? Bad reporting with sensationalistic headlines
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Scott Berkun posts a few nice acronyms for some of the realities of teams and the process they follow during development. One term that I've used in the past and find useful in the myriad of acronyms is Application Solution Specialist == ASS Scott posts
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Spring has it, Enterprise Library has it, Google's been using it. Check out a framework that Google's been using for production, now open to the public Guice wholly embraces annotations and generics, thereby enabling you to wire together and test objects
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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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The Spring Framework for Java now has a Batch Processing Framework. Something that will always be around it seems is Batch. No matter how hard we try, things aren't always real-time and there's a need to run things in "batch"... But, this is not your
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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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