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10 Myths of using Open Source in your business
ActiveState has released a short white paper entitled “10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business”. Authors advocate against black-and-white approach to open source that is often adopted by both its zealots and its opponents. They believe that using open source software may foster business development projects but pros and cons need to be weighted carefully and proper safety nets should be put in place to reduce potential risks and to optimize advantages. This white paper can be...
Posted 11 August 2008 02:24 AM by riaan
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Code Snippet Tool
SnipPit is a SQL Server based VS add-in (and separate desktop app.) snippet respository . http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/SnipPit.aspx Subscribe in a reader Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 24 July 2008 03:09 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)
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SharePoint Customization Best Practices
A guide for many common types of customizations and whether they are supported or not. The full guide can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861954.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 23 July 2008 02:50 AM by riaan
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WCF Standards
Looking for a guide to all of the web services protocols implemented by WCF? There's no single document that captures all of the information, but there is a group of documents that talk about the implemented protocols and some of the choices in those implementations. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/07/22/standards-guide.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 23 July 2008 02:46 AM by riaan
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Agile And the truth
What is the role of the truth in the Agile development process? Here is a post that seem to know: http://dpwhelan.com/blog/agile/truthfulness-on-software-teams/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 15 July 2008 01:51 AM by riaan
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WCF Best practices
Here is a post to some links regarding WCF best practices: http://mehranikoo.net/CS/archive/2008/05/31/WCF_5F00_Best_5F00_Practices.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 10 July 2008 02:40 AM by riaan
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Software factories - a practicle implemenation
Here is an article from MSDN on a practical implementation of software factories. In the article brief principles get discussed, but the over Wow of the article reside in the cutting of development costs. Something to consider: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc496679.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 18 June 2008 03:06 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)
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DDD in practice
Found this very good article on infoq by Srini Penchikala on Domain Driven Design and the practice implementation of the concept. Even a sample has been included. Read more here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-in-practice Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 18 June 2008 02:37 AM by riaan | 165 comment(s)
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SOA Principles and Modularity
Some points on SOA architecture principles. Interesting read: http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/soa-rediscovering-modularity Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 17 June 2008 03:14 AM by riaan | 137 comment(s)
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Using Mocks
I think I have posted on using mocks before, but here is another blog post regarding this matter - rather leaning more towards being against this matter: http://serialseb.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-mock-frameworks-suck-and-how-to.html Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 10 June 2008 02:07 AM by riaan
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BizTalk Testing
Nice set of articles on unit testing BizTalk processes. http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/04/27/121687.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 28 May 2008 03:38 AM by riaan
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.Net for clients
With the .NET platform continuing to grow at a breakneck pace, the need for a lighter weight client-only version has become apparent. To address this need, the .NET Framework Client Profile was created. http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2008/05/21/net-framework-client-profile-justin-van-patten.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 26 May 2008 03:09 AM by riaan
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SOA projects - why some succeed, why some fail
This is Brian Loesgen's view on this topic. Makes a nice, quick read with some nice ideas: http://geekswithblogs.net/bloesgen/archive/2008/05/19/122248.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 20 May 2008 02:20 AM by riaan
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WebDSL
Eelco Visser - an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands - released a paper on DSL and the Web. WebDSL is domain-specific language for developing dynamic web applications with a rich data model. The underlying target architecture is based on JBoss's Seam. The paper can be downloaded from here: http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-023.pdf Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted 14 May 2008 02:57 AM by riaan
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