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2003
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Code Reviews and IDisposable
Warning: C# biased code to follow.....
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Logging Application Block
You or may not be aware of a new Application block recently released by the Microsoft patterns and practices team. If you have used or are thinking about using the Enterprise Instrumentation application framework (EIF), then the logging app block will be of immediate interest to you. It is available here.
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Software the users would love
Saw a post from G. Andrew Duthie regarding some more new features coming in ASP.NET which is all good, but one of the most significant of those for me (even though relatively minor) is the SQL Cache invalidation. I like to design with caching where possible, but having immediate update of data as well as the benefits of cached data together has not been easy and this feature alone could be immediately usable in a number of enterprise apps I have designed/developed. Great stuff. (p.s. You can find G. Andrew Duthie sys-con radio interview here)
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Indigo != Remoting; Remoting != future
Just saw a post here by Jesse Ezell that states that MS will be dropping remoting support.
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More Tips and Tricks
Wow, lots of posts from the PDC. Hope everyone is having fun and learning lots <insert jealous sigh here>.
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.Net V2.0 - Generics
The next version of .net promises some really cool things. Here is a link to an article by Jason Clark on the MSDN site which describes one of the cool new features being added, Generics.
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XML Strongly Typed Datasets and State Management
On a recent project, of which you may be vaguely aware of if you read my earlier posts, we had great success utilising XML Strongly typed datasets, to help us maintain the clients state, without actually using any of the state management features within .Net.
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TechEd2003 Brisbane - The Final Day
Final day of the TechEd conference and I still haven't won an XBox game pack yet or an XBox bag from filling in my eval forms. Oh well...
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TechEd - Day after the Party
TechEd party was pretty cool. It was hosted at a nightclub, complete with a girl spinning around the room on a piece of cloth, guys in painfully small silver shorts performing balance and strength acts, girl in a highly reflective suit bouncing lasers all over the place, the “Sandman” as guest speaker, a star wars theme thrown in... what more could a bunch of Techo's ask for.
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TechEd 2003 Brisbane - Australia
Haven't blogged for a while but am happy to say that I am writing this after the first day of sessions here at TechEd 2003 in Brisbane, Australia. Weather is good and the sessions have been really good so far. Got in a bit late on Sunday and didn't get a chance to do much except register and hang around for a small while.
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Project saga and Enterprise direction
Still no performance testing results from the project I have been developing. Not only am I keen to see how my design performs, its especially important when delivering the product to the client with guarantees on its capability and meeting the clients initial requirements.
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Project Woes
Well, as you may know from the previous entries, we were due to enter performance testing for a project I have been designing and working on. Unfortunately, what was once a nice and harmonious relationship with the client has now turned a bit sour as we did not enter UAT (User acceptance testing) by the due date. Initially we missed by one day with some known problems in the system that we were working to fix. Unfortunately, the client has used this as leverage to put the pressure on and now we are backtracking to get everything requested and have been falling further behind (we are now almost a week behind). Performance testing has been shelved for the time being not only because we were behind, but also due to infrastructure and other issues beyond our direct control. So I can't report to you how wonderfully stable and resilient our application is at hundreds of concurrent users :(
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System Testing
In a project I have been designing and working on lately, we are almost about to finish system testing and enter UAT (user acceptance testing). Its nice to be able to see something you have designed really start to work as intended, but what I find most interesting right about now is that we are also about to do some performance testing. Its good to see your design doing what it was intended to do, but what can it *really* do when you put the "pedal to the metal"?
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Over-enthusiasm
Well, my first ever blog entry. I know I'm excited. First a bit of background.