Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Laxy Loading Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries A guide into OR/M implementation challenges...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Software Design The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! Refactoring Day 6: Push Down Field Refactoring Day 7: Rename (method, class, parameter) Refactoring Day 8: Replace Inheritance with Delegation Refactoring Day 9: Extract Interface Refactoring Day 10: Extract Method xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released Windows...
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P&P/Design Patterns I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of the SAB+VAB+LAB from EntLib in order to create a custom Claims-Based identity system configured with SAB rules expressed with VAB expressions. It had just come up Friday that I couldn't use Ent Lib 4...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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Trying to get in a habit of doing these when I get up and before getting into work. Design Patterns/DI/IOC Command-Query Separation and Immutable Builders Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing Prism Vs. Framework XXXX General Christian notes that we will have 12-Core Processors in 2010...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers and...
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Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Design Patterns/PAG/Software Architecture PAG continues to do...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories over...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - latest in a nice link series from ScottGu SharePoint Arpan has his Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark SOA/Software Architecture/Enterprise...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a huge fan and...
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Taking a brief break on what has been a nonstop busy work day since the minute I woke up (and that's how I like it!) TDD/Software Development/Tools Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper DDD/Software Architecture/Software Design As you regular readers of this blog know, I am a...
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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section I...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section...
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Temps near 100 F and 100% humidity make for some pretty uncomfortable days Windows Workflow Sometimes you have to go beyond the two root models of WF which are Sequential and State. We needed to and ended up using a hybrid of rules driven and state. Matt Winkler has a post with an ungainly title of Different...
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Temps near 100 F and 100% humidity make for some pretty uncomfortable days Windows Workflow Sometimes you have to go beyond the two root models of WF which are Sequential and State. We needed to and ended up using a hybrid of rules driven and state. Matt Winkler has a post with an ungainly title of Different...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O/RM...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will...
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Cross-posted from CB Blog What Ayende said here that is, " Building the application using TDD, IoC, OR/M, etc would create a maintainable application, but it wouldn't be maintainable by someone who doesn't know all that. Building an application application using proven bad practices will ensure...
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