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The foundations of architecting Service Orientation

A lot has been said about the foundations of Service Orientation. But still, way to often I see people deciding to use SOAP/XML and thinking they are doing Service Orientation. You might recognize the following examples I see as getting Service Orientation...

Posted to CaPo on Becoming an Integration Architect by Carlo Poli on 01-05-2009

Filed under: SOA, architecture

Restarting my blog

I haven’t been blogging for over 2,5 years (except for one off topic post). This was partly because I didn’t bother, but the main reason was that I didn’t have a goal, a story I wanted to tell the world. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff around integration...

Posted to CaPo on Becoming an Integration Architect by Carlo Poli on 01-01-2009

Filed under: SOA, BPM, architecture

Telerik OpenAccess ORM Mapper : Lessons Learnt

When looking at developing new applications I always end up developing my own data layer. Largely because I do not like the dictatorial design principles spouted by the likes of ActiveRecord, nHibernate, et al. I write them according to real life situations...

Posted to Nathan J Pledger by Nathan Pledger on 12-22-2008

Filed under: OpenAccess ORM, Telerik

Why is the ErrorCode property of type int?

Once in a while you need to handle an framework exception that has an ErrorCode property. The HttpException and COMException classes for example have such a property. The problem here is that the Message property contains the ErrorCode in hex but the...

Posted to Ramon Smits by Ramon Smits on 12-20-2008

Filed under: HRESULT, Cast

JavaScript Hall of Shame

Here's another pet hate in web bad-practice: Javascript. Javascript is a client-side scripting language that allows really useful interaction to occur with the page and the browser, thereby improving the end user experience when using a site. It's...

Posted to Nathan J Pledger by Nathan Pledger on 12-16-2008

Filed under: Best Practice, JavaScript

OT: Yamaha KX8 - My new DAW addition

In my free time I often play some notes on my E-MU X-Board 61 . It has 16 controllers, direct patch select and 4 zones that can be layered to. But yesterday I bought a new board. The Yamaha KX8 with has 88 weighted keys, just 4 controllers but they are...

Posted to Ramon Smits by Ramon Smits on 12-13-2008

Filed under: MIDI, Keyboard, KX8, Yamaha

Long delay at service startup caused by WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy

Today I was resolving an issue where some of our services had a very long startup time which only occurs during booting and not at a service start/restart from the service snap-in. In other words, when I restart the service when the system is finished...

Posted to Ramon Smits by Ramon Smits on 12-11-2008

Filed under: services, Delay, WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy, KB220902, WPAD

All my kids will program on Boku

One day, i will FORCE :D all my kids to program on Boku like Chris kids do. http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2008/12/09/an-early-start.aspx

Posted to Developer Pills by Adel Khalil on 12-10-2008

Filed under: Community News, Funny, Personal

New Hardware: AUG AMI DevKit for the .NET Micro Framework

The Austrian company AUG Elektronik GmbH will soon release its AUG AMI DevKit . The main features of the board include the following: Atmel AT91SAM9261 (200 MHz) 160 kB SRAM 64 MB SDRAM 256 MB NAND Flash 3.4" OLED Display 480x272, 24 BPP RGB resistive...

Posted to Jens Kühner by jenskuehner on 12-09-2008

Filed under: .NET Micro Framework, Gadgets & Devices

Session at German Embedded Software Congress

Had a session to indroduce the .NET Micro Framework at the first German Embedded Software Congress (ESE) today. The audience consists of traditional embedded programmers using C++, C or even assembler. The interesting question at the beginning of the...

Posted to Jens Kühner by jenskuehner on 12-09-2008

Filed under: .NET Micro Framework, Gadgets & Devices

BizTalk Server 2009 beta and ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP are public!

Last night the good news of BizTalk Server 2009 beta being public received me, finally! It consists of the following items: 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes Document BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009...

Posted to Jean-Paul Smit by Jean-Paul Smit on 12-09-2008

Filed under: BizTalk, ESB

WCF Test Harness: Creating a Stub Service

The following steps can be performed to create a stub service based on the service contract downloaded and compiled in Add a New Proxy via URL : Select the menu option Show Hosting Window on the Host menu. This will bring up a non-modal dialog that can...

Posted to Jeffrey Chilberto by chilberto on 12-09-2008

Filed under: WCF, Test Harness

WCF Test Harness: New Release

I've created a new version of the WCF Test Harness including some bug fixes and the ability to create a mock host. This is a stubbed service based on a loaded service contract. This is very limited and its main purpose is to illustrate what is possible...

Posted to Jeffrey Chilberto by chilberto on 12-09-2008

Filed under: WCF, Test Harness

Standalone .NET Micro Framework Emulator

Upon a customers request I figured out how to use the .NET Micro Framework Emulator on a clear machine without Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Micro Framework SDK 3.0 installed. Imagine a scenario where you might need to send your device application to...

Posted to Jens Kühner by jenskuehner on 12-08-2008

Filed under: .NET Micro Framework, Gadgets & Devices

Hosting Silverlight charting controls in a SharePoint Web Part

A few days ago I blogged about hosting ASP.NET 3.5 charting controls in a SharePoint Web Part , now there has also been a first beta release of a Silverlight variant. Jan Tielens created a Charts Web Part which hosts Silverlight charts in a SharePoint...

Posted to Harold van de Kamp's Blog by hvdkamp on 12-06-2008

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Development, Silverlight 2, Charting

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