Archives
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Scale and Performance
Some thoughts on Scale and Performance on large scale application development from Hugh Pyle (Groove Software Engineer). Worth reading.
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Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Small Business Server 2003 Installation Update
Talking about SBS2K3 from my prior posting - this is an important update: Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Small Business Server 2003 Installation Update. Need it to get WSS running on your SBS2K3 server.
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Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
SBS 2003 Best Practices book will be out soon. If you get an opportunity to check SBS2K3 out, do so! In one small contained & complete package you get “everything” to deploy for 75 users (max capacity). It is perfect for a small software development shop and is extemely cost-effective.
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C# Corner starts a 'Yukon' & 'Longhorn' development center
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Microsoft CRM SDK v1.2 - Reporting
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Yukon Basics: XML, T-SQL, and the CLR article in MSDN mag
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Sun's Price Wars (revisited)
Randy states it succinctly as “cheap stunts” - the question to ask, is why did it take Sun so long? Java has been available for almost seven years now. In a free market, bringing benefits to the end consumer should be a paramount goal. It may be that Sun's customer has always been the Fortune 500 (& Government) customer and Sun has little knowledge/experience of the WalMart consumer. Their absence in this consumer market segment cannot be an excuse to get into another bout of Microsoft bashing.
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C# Cookbook's Regular Expression chapter
The long-awaited 'phantom' C# Cookbook from OReilly will be available in Jan '04. It has a sample chapter on 'Regular Expressions' available for download.. something to read during the cold Norwegian evenings ;-)
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Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition
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Food Movers: Distributed systems development example at MSDN
Brian Travis has a six-part comprehensive series on distributed systems development at theMSDN. It takes a service-centric (”SOA”) approach of distributed applications that is quite illustrative and pragmatic. I commenced on Section 1 but also glanced ahead into Section 6 (Going Live: Instrumentation, Testing, and Deployment) and this looks good - the series should be a *book!
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C# Under The Hood - passing by refs and value
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Cleaning 'Keynes' & 'Adam Smith'
Every 6 or 8 months, I thoroughly clean my most active development boxes. 'Keynes' is undergoing it now, literally from the bottom up - starting with a low-level (quick) format of the hard drive to a complete reinstallation of theW2K3 Server. I use 'Keynes' for Groove and SharePoint services (WSS) development. Over the holidays, I plan to do the same to 'Adam Smith' - my SQL2K Ent Server and also prepare it for the new SQL Reporting Services.
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Free Tools To Get You Started in UML Design
“A quick guide to some great freeware on the Web that gets you rolling with UML, MDA, and other program-design technologies especially important as your Web services projects grow more ambitious.”Try anything once. -
*Visual SourceSafe article at MSDN
A good one from Paul Sheriff and Michael Krasowski that shows how to manage ASP.NET development using *VSS. Recently, I worked on using the VSS Automation to create a XML 'Database'. Getting the records into the tree was fine but accessing and updating it was another matter - something I commented upon in a blog posting.
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WSS (SharePoint) + Groove
My experiments (evaluation) with the WSS (SharePoint) and Groove integration is going quite well. I believe WSS has been completely rewritten as an ASP.NET platform from the prior SharePoint Team Services (STS) and it shows.
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The Journal
There is a new MS development 'Journal' and upon a cursory look at it - I can say this is very promising. From the 'Enterprise' perspective, it was something very sorely missing for corporate systems development. Very timely and a must-read!
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WSS (SharePoint) trial with Groove
Last night, I commenced upon the WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) trial (available from Verio via MS). Hooked it up with the Groove Mobile Workspaces and it all works like a charm (..touch wood..). The only issue is that Verio gives you only one 'administrative' account for the WSS site (I have to look into this one as it sounds very short for an evaluation offering). This little project is an evaluation of WSS+Groove combination for what may become a large scale deployment. My prior SharePoint+Groove deployments were with the SharePoint Team Services (STS) but the new WSS is something else...
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MSDN Jan '04 issue
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Aligning software screws with craftmanship
Maestro Joel Spolsky has an excellent piece on Software Craftmanship.
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C# programmers - grab'em while they are young..
Ephraim Schwartz, an editor of InfoWorld shows how Microsoft is grabbing C# programmers while they are in young (in school). An interesting note also, is how .NET will also propagate over to the non-Windows platforms (via Ximian).