Ralf's Sudelbücher

Aspect-Oriented Programming made easy with Event-Based Components

Ralf Westphal — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:06:17 GMT

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) can help to clearly separate concerns. But it´s kinda cumbersome to do without a tool. At least if you want to do it along the beaten path of object orientation. But things become much more easy, when you switch your...(read more)

Event-Based Components – For Easier Software Design Say Goodbye to the Usual Object Orientation

Ralf Westphal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:00 GMT

Have come to feel very uneasy with the usual object orientation. It simply does not deliver on its promises. That´s of course not the fault of object oriented languages like C# or Java or C++. It´s the fault of those who use them in a way that leads their...(read more)

Doing asynchronous distributed request/response service calls without WCF

Ralf Westphal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:47:37 GMT

In my previous blog post I hopefully was able to demonstrate how low the entry barrier is to asynchronous remote communication. It´s as easy as hosting a service like this 10 using ( var serverSpace = new CcrSpace ().ConfigureAsHost...(read more)

Easy remote communication without WCF

Ralf Westphal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:45:02 GMT

If you´ve read my previous posts about why I deem WCF more of a problem than a solution and how I think we should switch to asynchronous only communication in distributed application, you might be wondering, how this could be done in an easy way. Since...(read more)

Becoming asynchronous – The first step towards distributed applications

Ralf Westphal — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:41:01 GMT

In my previous blog post I argued WCF was not the most usable and most easy to learn way for communication in distributed applications. This is due to its focus on synchronous communication (even though you can do asynchronous communication as well)....(read more)

WCF is not the solution but the problem

Ralf Westphal — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:43:08 GMT

The title of this post has caught your attention? So let me explain what I mean by it: I think WCF is great. It´s the best communication framework Microsoft ever has come up with. WCF solves a lot of problems of its predecessors, it is tremendously extensible...(read more)

Conscious Incompetence - The need to transcend conventions

Ralf Westphal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:09:50 GMT

In his recent blog posting Seth Godin once again questions the value of competence. Sure, he does not want to people dumber. He just argues that sole reliance on competence as a compass to navigate the future can - well - be a hindrance. He´s written...(read more)

What´s in a Book?

Ralf Westphal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:58:46 GMT

As I read Kevin Kelly´s "Fate of the Book" I come to wonder what this debate he´s referring to is all about? Is it about form or content? Is is about texts as opposed to video or audio? Is it about texts of a certain minimum length and/or structure as...(read more)

New blog on software architecture - The Architect´s Napkin

Ralf Westphal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:40:33 GMT

Since I´m mostly concerned with software architecture and my clients are asking again and again when I´m going to write a book about the topic, I finally decided to set out and compile the material to go into the book. And I decided to do it publicly...(read more)

Software Architect 2008 Sample Code

Ralf Westphal — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:53:00 GMT

Please find the sample code for my presentations at Software Architect 2008 on Aspect Oriented Programming with PostSharp and Software Transactional Memory with NSTM here for download: http://www.ralfw.de/download/Software_Architect_08_Samples.zip If...(read more)

Component orientation explained - Modern software development viewed from a musical perspective

Ralf Westphal — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:36:28 GMT

You´re fluent in object oriented programming. But now and again you´re wondering what the fuzz about component orientation is? There is supposed to be more to it than just using 3rd party controls in your user interfaces. But, what and how? Component...(read more)

NSimpleDB - Use Amazon´s SimpleDB data model in your applications now - Part 4

Ralf Westphal — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:17:58 GMT

As explained in my previous postings , I implemented a local/embeddable version of the Amazon SimpleDB data model and API in C#. You can download the sources from my NSimpleDB Google Code Project and build the tuple space engine yourself, or you download...(read more)

NSimpleDB - Use Amazon´s SimpleDB data model in your applications now - Part 3

Ralf Westphal — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:05:21 GMT

In my previous postings about Amazon´s SimpleDB data model and API I explained, what Amazon´s online database service - or to be more precise: tuple space - has to offer in general. If this sounds interesting to you, then now welcome to the desktop. Because...(read more)

NSimpleDB - Use Amazon´s SimpleDB data model in your applications now - Part 2

Ralf Westphal — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:14:07 GMT

Amazon´s SimpleDB is an exciting new player in the database world. It´s free, it´s online, it´s not relational. SimpleDB is a dynamic database implementing a tuple space . Currently SimpleDB (as of Jan 08) is in beta - but not everyone can get his hands...(read more)

NSimpleDB - Use Amazon´s SimpleDB data model in your applications now - Part 1

Ralf Westphal — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:37:52 GMT

Have you heard about Amazon´s online "database service" SimpleDB ? They describe it like this: "Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time." So it´s not a RDBMS, because Amazon does not call the data "relational...(read more)