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Agile Development: Warning Signs
Alok Srivastava has an excellent post discussing agile development and areas that can put agile projects at risk. I'm currently doing clean up on an agile project gone south, and I wholeheartedly agree that the issues he points out should be warning signs...
Making the Possible More Impossible
Jared Parsons thought it would be nice if we could have a ReadOnlyList object in our generic template instead of IEnumerable. I think that's an excellent idea, so a few minor modifications and we have an even better solution, not requiring the generic...
Making the Possible Impossible
Have you ever gone to a restraunt with a menu that was just too big? Every once and a while I wind up at a place with a huge menu and it takes forever to choose what kind of food I'm going to eat. That's not a problem when I go to a steak house. When...
Publish / Subscribe with WCF
I'm working on a series of articles about building an ESB on your own. http://www.iserviceoriented.com/blog/post/Building+Our+Own+ESB+-+Publish+Subscribe+Part+1.aspx http://www.iserviceoriented.com/blog/post/Building+Our+Own+ESB+-+Publish+Subscribe+Part...
Fear the Cloud
If you are considering using "cloud services," you should read this: http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/07/amazons-s3-web-service-our-1-cause-of-failure/
Don't Mix Lambda Expressions and Using Statements
Lambda expressions are really cool, but they present some interesting problems because they aren't really inline code blocks like they appear: http://blogs.msdn.com/jaredpar/archive/2008/07/16/don-t-mix-using-statements-and-lambda-expressions.aspx
My First Microsoft Interview
I'm happy in my present situation, but working at Microsoft has always been in the back of my mind. So, when a recruiter for the Business Solutions division tracked me down, I was certainly going to find out more. The project sounded interesting enough...
Protocol Buffers: Google vs. XML
"Google (or at least some part of it) has now weighed in on the whole XML discussion with the recent release of their "Protocol Buffers" implementation, and, quite naturally, the debates have begun, with all the carefully-weighed logic, respectful discourse...
Behind Youtube
Cuong Do on YouTube's infrastructure. Pretty interesting: http://blip.tv/file/1069718/
Events are your Friend
"Imagine trying to build a desktop application without events. How would you make a button click do what you want? One way would be to open the Button source code and add the code directly. That has approach has obvious problems, not the least of which...
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