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Hosting Windows Services in IIS Presentation at JAXDUG
Thanks to everyone who came out for my presentation at the Jacksonville Developer User Group tonight. Here are the slides on SlideShare . Download the code for building your own service with self-hosted monitoring from BitBucket . You can also read my...
Scaling Out .NET Presentation at Jax Code Camp 2011
Today at the Jax Code Camp I gave a presentation on scaling out your .NET applications by leveraging IIS7 , AppFabric , Web Farm Framework , and Web Deploy . Thanks to everyone how come out to the session. I've posted the presentation over at SlideShare...
F5 Add-on for Web Farm Framework
Gupreet over on the IIS.NET site posted a sample for integrating an F5 load balancer with the Web Farm Framework. It works well, but isn't configurable. I started adding my own configuration, but artisticcheese posted a project to CodePlex that already...
Posted: Aug 27 2011, 12:24 PM by brian_ritchie | with 5 comment(s)
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Using extension methods to decrease the surface area of a C# interface
An interface defines a contract to be implemented by one or more classes. One of the keys to a well-designed interface is defining a very specific range of functionality. The profile of the interface should be limited to a single purpose & should...
Posted: Mar 04 2011, 09:36 PM by brian_ritchie | with 5 comment(s)
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Populate a WCF syndication podcast using MP3 ID3 metadata tags
In the last post , I showed how to create a podcast using WCF syndication. A podcast is an RSS feed containing a list of audio files to which users can subscribe. The podcast not only contains links to the audio files, but also metadata about each episode...
Posted: Feb 28 2011, 10:28 PM by brian_ritchie | with 1 comment(s)
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Creating a podcast feed for iTunes & BlackBerry users using WCF Syndication
In my previous post, I showed how to create a RSS feed using WCF Syndication . Next, I'll show how to add the additional tags needed to turn a RSS feed into an iTunes podcast. A podcast is merely a RSS feed with some special characteristics: iTunes RSS...
Posted: Feb 27 2011, 10:32 PM by brian_ritchie | with 6 comment(s)
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Serving up a RSS feed in MVC using WCF Syndication
With .NET 3.5, Microsoft added the SyndicationFeed class to WCF for generating ATOM 1.0 & RSS 2.0 feeds. In .NET 3.5, it lives in System.ServiceModel.Web but was moved into System.ServiceModel in .NET 4.0. Here's some sample code on constructing a...
Posted: Feb 21 2011, 10:22 PM by brian_ritchie | with 2 comment(s)
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Extracting EXIF metadata from JPG images
Drew Noakes has written a great EXIF metadata extractor for JPG images in Java which was ported to C# by Ferret Renaud. This allows you to pull out the EXIF data like camera model & date taken. You can also access the width & height of the image...
Document Database & RavenDB presentation posted on SlideShare
Thanks to those who were able to make my presentation at the Jax Arc SIG last night. I hope you found it increased your interest in learning more about the NOSQL movement and document databases. Other than the fire alarm testing, it was a good time. I...
Speaking at Jax Arc SIG on Document Databases & RavenDB
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