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As Jan blogged earlier this weekend, Enterprise Library version 1.1 has been released . Some of the issues of version 1.0 have been resolved, but unfortunately not all. I still have some gripes. Strong naming The main problem I have is that it still does not support strong-naming the EntLib assemblies...
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Finally we know wat SOA stands for: Service Oriented Ambiguity. As always Martin Fowler is very insightful. The term Service Oriented Architecture is beyond saving. Read about some of the conflicting meanings people put under the SOA umbrella in his ServiceOrientedAmbiguity bliki . I am still using the...
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Yesterday I read a very interesting article over on TheServerSide.NET titled Architecture Insights from Tech-Ed 2005 . It contains the following paragraph: There is a black hole of software know-how in the space between services and application that might be big enough to swallow an organization’s...
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Today I had to come up with a cost estimate for a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a fixed-price project. The customer asks for it to be developed using a waterfall approach : Analysis; Design; Coding; Testing; Integration; Maintenance. Estimating the total cost seemed to be very risky to me, given that...
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Microsoft has announced that it will include deep support for RSS (and Atom) in Longhorn. A lot of it will come through Internet Explorer 7.0 but there will also be a kind of RSS data store that can be accessed by other applications running on Longhorn. Microsoft's Robert Scoble links to a lot of news...
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If you want to know about modeling and Agile modeling specifically, take a visit at Scott Ambler his site. He has put some effort in explaining Agile modeling and of much interest are the list of 35 modeling artifacts . He described the artifacts and provides examples for every one of them. Quite some...
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MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the ideas embodied in Team System If you have ever looked at the RUP manual, you'll see the resemblence in Microsoft's MSF for Agile Software Development . There are probably...
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Waiting all day long and finally it's released , the enterprise library. On the main page is a link, but the page cannot be found. But you can grab it anyhow, right here .
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Last year a technology preview of the Microsoft Tools for Domain-Specific Languages was released . A few days ago, a set of three documents with a walkthrough was added to this, to help you work with and understand the tools. More information can be found on the special Team System DSL Tools website...
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”Barring any major catastrophes, it is official. On January 28th Enterprise Library will be up and available on MSDN. Spread the word… download the code, give us feedback, join the GotDotNet workspace . Tell your mom, it could change her life” Matt Joe en Dennis Mulder (Avanade) will...
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I'm becoming pretty interested in DDD (Domain Driven Design) and TDD (Test Driven Development). Via Steve Eichert I found a link to a post on Keith Ray's blog, with a short explanation about TDD , and why TDD is faster then writing unit tests after you're done coding your functionality. He describes...
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I've been reading this article on Language Oriented Programming: the next programming paradigm . Current problems The article first describes current problems. One of the biggest problems I think is, as said in the article, that developers can clearly explain to eachother in a matter of minutes, what...
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Lately I've read some comments from people all over the internet, on chatty lines. You should try to avoid chatting a lot with your services. Ofcourse you should probably avoid the same with components, but with services you should consider even more that they might be on the other side of the world...
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Ofcourse we have all read about the Provider Model ( part 1 , part 2 ), which Microsoft claims is their invention. Ryan Whitaker has made a post in which he explains you should not use it when you don't need it, although it looks very cool. Which it does, as it seems, as with everything Microsoft overhypes...
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I'm kinda busy, so I haven't blogged about yesterday evening yet. But one thing that springs to mind is the following from Ingo. He said, we used to feel really good if we could tell people we were developers. Then it wasn't that cool anymore and we called ourself senior developers. Now more and more...