Development Notes, News and Ramblings
We’ve collected great feedback from you in these early releases, the most significant being that we need better tools to aid in defining a data model and mapping that model to the database. Although we have tools for generating a direct mapping to the storage schema, the real power of the ADO.NET Entity Framework comes […]
After Larry O’Brien declared his allegiance to REST, here are a couple more people who have solidly been in the SOAP world for the past few years but seem to have had various forms of epiphanies. Dino talks about the usage of REST in ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and Tim Ewald seems to have had some good […]
While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. […]
Paul Stovel in his post on The Domain Tree describes the similarities between concepts listed in Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans and some aspects of WPF. Nice analogy. The part that had me tweak my ears , so to speak, is the application architecture tree toward the bottom of the post. I know this […]
Stephen has a very interesting article that describes the technology used by his company and how BizTalk Services ties in to provide some pretty amazing capabilities.
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Tags: BizTalk+Services
Udi has an interesting post about the notion of an Anemic Domain Model Anti-Pattern. He does point out that Datasets frequently go hand in hand with that pattern. So far so good – I am in total agreement. But somewhere along the lines Udi references Fowler, who (unless I’m misreading his point) pretty much doesn’t […]
I’ve been using the personalized home page for a number of years. The other day I noticed that Google has added theme support. Maybe thats where some of the billion dollar revenue this quarter went to….. I went ahead and picked a theme and was pleasantly surprised when the weather of this theme changed in […]
Leon has a fantastic post that illustrates in a very hilarious way one particularly difficult aspect of our profession – estimating a feature. I love it! Been there a few times.
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OK that was lame. Seems that Udi Dahan managed to send me a little traffic to two of my blogs with one of his posts. Nice. Haven’t you found that nothing raises cross blog traffic quite as much as a spirited set of well placed posts over a topic of perceived disagreement?
I am not […]
In this book, Michael Nygard touches on an aspect of software development that is rarely ever discussed in print. Namely what happens after an app goes into production. Most of us hope against all odds that nothing happens. And of course something always goes wrong. Murphy’s Law. Nygard shows with anecdotes and real life case […]
Some time ago my machine suffered from strange freezes. It would lock up for no reason. Absolutely and completely. I updated my ATI drivers and things seemed ok. Well, after coming back from sleep mode more often than not the display would be completely messed up psychedelic looking thing but that was about it. Until […]
Rick provides us with a checklist that seems very similar to something a VC might use before investing in a company. I think you might also use this list to screen prospective employers. If you are being hired at a high enough management level, these sort of questions make a lot of sense. Of course […]
Brad Wilson doesn’t like mock objects nor setup and tear down code for his tests. Interesting. Looks good enough with a simple example but what about something more complex?
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Frans has a bang-up article on yet another problem with LINQ. Its more fuel for the flames of discontent (so to speak). I’ve already pointed out that from a very pragmatic standpoint LINQ is a PITA. Frans adds to that some detailed under the hood observations of why this thing is such a failure in […]
Interesting – WCF is up to 50% faster than ASP.NET web services.
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