Archives
-
Software as an autopoietic entity - or: Survival of the fittest
What´s software anyway? Code, software is code, right? Well, I´d say, software is more than that. And to realize that is important for the whole software production process.
-
Freeing Data From the Silos - A Relationistic Approach to Information Processing
Current data processing is suffering from the bane of the many data silos. Data is locked up in a hierarchy of containers and can hardly be connected in new ways. Once data has been grouped into relational database tables or object oriented classes, it’s difficult to regroup it or set up new relations. Regrouping would either break existing code or mean duplication of data. New relations would entail schema changes and be limited to connections between containers on only a few levels of abstraction. Products like Microsoft’s WinFS, dynamic languages and database refactoring tools are trying to overcome this lamentable state of data processing while having their own perspective on it.
-
Microsoft Webcast on Software Cells: Here are the slide decks
For all those interested in the slides of the Microsoft webcasts I did yesterday and today on my architectural model for software called "Software Universe" and "Software Cells", you can download them here and here as PDF documents.
-
dotnetpro.tv: WCF aka Indigo im Video-Interview mit Christian Weyer
Die dotnetpro hat auf Bitten von Clemens "unser Mannes bei Microsoft" Vasters :-), der in Redmond für die WCF Community zuständig ist, die aktuelle Episode meiner Video-Entwicklerserie dotnetpro.tv online gestellt: Christian Weyer führt darin ausführlich und anschaulich und wie immer eloquent kurzweilig in die Grundlagen von WCF ein und benutzt sogar bis dato nie gesehene, also quasi einzigartige Darstellungen am Flipchart :-)