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Rocky has a good entry on his blog about Indigo and its role in the future. It’s a must read for anyone considering Architecture and things like SOA and message based applications. He raise some good points like we're stuck in this continues recreating new forms or remote procedure calls every few years and not gaining anything in the process. Is Indigo compelling or boring? For example, all this senseless debates wherever to use Remoting or Web services in the end might be useless because the real...
A very interesting article to read that goes into the details of the election of the new Pope can be found here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/hacking_the_pap.html (one word of warning - Some people using IE seem to have issues opening the page - so rather use a proper browser like Firefox :p ) He describes the process whereby a new Pope gets elected and possible ways at every step how it could be hacked or not. Eventually he make the conclusion that small open systems are much harder...
I've been busy on the testing web services and comparing Windows 2000 and 2003. I knew 2003 was supposed to be faster (and better and...) but the results I got were very good. Let me explain a bit on the tests themselves. I created a very simple web service simply returning a random number - not going into the details of how to ensure it is truly random and so on. Then I created a console application that can test using one of two methods: Synchronous(1) and Asynchronous(2). Synchronous: It calls...
Sorry, could not help posting the link here but I found this article on the MSDN site and I think its brillant! Basically the author Karl Seguin explains the reasons why its better to avoid using DataSets (and even DataReaders) for anything other than ur DAL layer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/CustEntCls.asp Abstract from the document: Not Object-Oriented Just because DataSets are objects and C# and Visual Basic .NET are object-oriented (OO) languages...
Rockford Lhotka has a blog entry in which he points out the 'interesting' history of DOS, Windows and .Net. He is 'predicting' that one day Windows will run on .Net and not the other way around. http://www.lhotka.net/WeBlog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=95cadf4f-53bb-4a65-8a2c-45f0fca882cb Interesting way of thinking of it. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Another interesting and worth while read on theServerSide is an article from Rocky Lhotka about 'T he Intersection of Objects and Services'. I tend to agree with his viewpoint that SOA != webservices and that SOA should rather be viewed as some grand messaging system between 'services' provided by entities. Some view it as just another API that is not much different from protocols like DCOM, MTS/COM+ and CORBA. http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=IntersectionsObjectsandServices...
Not exactly new anymore but I found this interesting article on the 'theserverside' about the Data Layer and another way to look at it. Quite interesting. http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=FallacyDataLayer It goes into some details of SOA and layering as well. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I started a discussion thread on Sadev about the topic if standards are always a good thing. Check it out on http://www.sadeveloper.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=50407 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
In the last week I discovered again how some 'basic' concepts of development can be wrongly/differently interpreted by developers. Take Object Orientation for example. On an acedemic level most of us have an idea what it should be (lets hope so) but when it comes to actually implementing a designed system it seems to break down. [names changed to protect the innocent] Say you have a design on paper that seems fairly ok - according to the system architect A... Now the developer D that 'implements...
I posted an article about Exception handling on Sadeveloper.Net. Its one of those topics that can create heated conversations for some or yawning responses from others. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I've been a fan of the Data Application Blocks of Microsoft since it was released. However it discovered that there is one big thing I needed that it does not provide. Support for OleDb. Thus, I created my own. That easy. Well, kind of. I posted an article on it on Sadeveloper.Net that includes the source code as a download. Please let me know what ur thinking of it and how it can be improved. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Another tool released by the VS powertoys team is the Threat Modeling Tool http://blogs.msdn.com/powertoys/archive/2004/05/25/141796.aspx The Threat Modeling Tool allows users to create threat model documents for applications. It organizes relevant data points, such as entry points, assets, trust levels, data flow diagrams, threats, threat trees, and vulnerabilities into an easy-to-use tree-based view. The tool saves the document as XML, and will export to HTML and MHT using the included XSLTs, or...
For those not subscribed to Channel 9 there was an interesting question about designing systems. Check out: http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/ktegels/archive/2004/04/15/larryquestion01.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!