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Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different problems. These problems varied from not able...
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I recently presented at the Auckland Connected Systems User Group . In order to prepare, I created several examples of methods of using the rules engine. The sample solution is here . Included in the sample solution are: Various Vocabulary definitions including using a function in XPath...
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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 wrong: Services are very technically oriented...
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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 and SOA/BPM, ranging from guiding BizTalk development...
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At the PDC, Windows Azure was announced as the Microsoft platform for hosting services in the cloud. Similar to Amazon's cloud services , Windows Azure will provide a mechanism for hosting solutions in the cloud. In other words, hosted in Microsoft data centers. Very interesting. Looks like a SOA...
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When looking to the Stored Proscedures debate, there is always those three factors you should measure by. Productivity - Span code base over multiple staging environments is a pain and harder to maintain. - Versioning sp code is way harder than versioning application code. - Minor change to the design...
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Hi folks, When you design your sophisticated "Change Password" feature in your next application make sure to retain the old password so the user can't re-choose them anymore.. You can keep a history of passwords and don't allow to use them again. [UPDATE] The reason you may wanted to...
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Most people should be familiar with the term “defensive programming”. It’s a way of writing code, in which the default mode is to explicitly check all assumptions you have in mind while writing logic (most of the time throwing exceptions to the caller). Though, when does this make sense? Assume you are...
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I'm very confused about UML i didn't had a chance to deeply work with it but now i guess it's already prisoned inside the boundaries of whiteboards nothing like UML will appear in any place other than the white board in the meeting room. Maybe i don't know I'm not working like you in a fancy software...
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I just read Paul Winson 's post about the fact that MySpace uses ASP.NET . I know this for months but just creates more questions about how MySpace is build. Do they use c#, vb? Do they make use of the standaard system.web.* controls? What kind of application layers do they have? How do they manage state...
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Last week I took a first look at the modelling features in Visual Studio 2005. A little late... sure... but probably still plenty of time to evaluate these features before the final release ;-) I started with the class designer and tried to model the information I would like to give to a developer to...