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A truely simple example to get started with WCF
Recently I needed to set up some simple code to demonstrate WCF (as an alternative to some other means of communication in distributed applications). But when I googled around, I could not find a really, really simple WCF example. Sure, there are lots of WCF introductions, but they all explain a lot of stuff I did not really want to know at that time. Also they most often spread the code across many files and even across languages (C# and XML). And that´s what I really, really hate! When I first try out a new API like WCF I want to have everything needed in one (!) place. I want all that´s required to be the minimum and in my favorite programming language. This way I can focus best on what´s really essential without getting distracted by syntax and unnecessary (but cool) "fluff".
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Why complexity metrics don´t yet help ease software maintenance
Jeroen van den Bos bemoaned in a recent post, of how little help automatic software architecture complexity metrics are to him when assessing effort of a software change. I feel with Jeroen and think, we need to take another look at what complexity means (for software development). Roger Sessions took at stab at this in his article "A Better Path to Enterprise Architecture" - but I disagree with him in some regards.