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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:25 PM

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...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:42 PM

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...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:00 PM

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...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 10:44 AM

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...
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Monday, July 21, 2008 10:48 AM

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/
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:46 AM

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
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:47 PM

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...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 5:08 PM

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...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:56 PM

Behind Youtube

Cuong Do on YouTube's infrastructure. Pretty interesting: http://blip.tv/file/1069718/
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:23 PM

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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