It’s kind of sudden, but we are moving BloggingAbout.NET to a new datacenter. I’m behind my desk now, but getting ready go move it right now. Hope you get this message before it’s down! ;-) Update We were migrated to the new datacenter without any loss or problems. The only problem might be logging in to the website. If you experience
We’ve all seen the comparison between development work and constructing buildings. I think the comparison is fundamentally flawed. There are numerous posts out in the world that confirm this. Random Google articles are here , here and here . I like the last one on Stackoverflow, because the writer is quite cynical when answering the question why they
For March 18th I did two presentations Data replication or data duplication As systems are growing bigger and more complex, we are looking for different ways to work with data. An example of this is CQRS and Event Sourcing which take a different approach over standard CRUD based systems. But when the authorities on CQRS tell you that it's not a
At work we’ve been using Enterprise Library for quite some time. A new colleague came in a few months ago and he’s apparently in love with log4net. And I’ve been proving over and over again that Enterprise Library logging can do what log4net can do. It’s probably that patterns & practices don’t have a budget for MVP titles, or I’d already have a
We probably all learned this at school. When you build software, you analyze requirements, find the nouns and build an entity-relationship model , an ERD. You start with the first normal form and normalize the model until you start building software upon it. But when you’re building software in a distributed environment, multiple components will likely
I’ve just came back from a trip to Washington DC , where I’ve been at the 50th IAM International Moving Annual Meeting . This was for my employer TellUs , who’s into lead generation for international removal companies. A lot of people asked for the reason why I went to the states, this is it. And of course because we bought a Microsoft PixelSense table
We’ve had a lot of success applying the principles and practices of the Advanced Distributed Systems Design course into our project and Udi Dahan asked if I could shed some more light on how things played out for us, so here it is. First of all, I wasn’t the only one who worked on this project - credit must also go to Sander Kooij and Maarten Vermeulen
This is an old article by Ted Neward that I’ve been trying to find for ages, as the original website isn’t online anymore. Until I remember the WayBackMachine and found the original article . As the WayBackMachine doesn’t always remember (or keeps remembering) everything, I’m reposting the article here for safekeeping. If the owner ever decides that
I’ve written in SDN Magazine about messaging and how it relates to RPC. It isn’t about messaging vs. RPC, but more or less an attempt to explain what benefits messaging can add to your software. Monday April 23rd I gave a presentation about the same subject. With this post I want to show the code so people can have a better look at it. Remember that