I was just randomly browsing the web and came across a recent blog post by Giovanni Bassi (translated to English via Google) and saw that he had a few screens of the new functionality in the Visual Studio Team System Rosario April 2008 CTP which included: UML diagrams Sequence diagrams (generated via...

If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files returned for CSS, images and JScript files, this...

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge us. We want people who are not afraid to take...

I wrote previously that Twitter's architecture is not scalable for real-time messaging . Indeed, the Twitter development team talked about this recently . Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built...

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Secret Server has supported a "Mobile Edition" for over a year now but it is always tricky making sure that it works correctly on all devices. Our approach was to bake mobile support into the base product (ASP.NET based) so it simply scales down to the capability of the device.  That sounds...

I have found that .NET really lacks in this space, needless to say I've been scouring the web for a decent free UML designer. Annoyingly most of the free UML tools have heavy restrictions on there use ( VP , MagicDraw ), oh and Visio is hopeless for complex diagrams. NetBeans comes with an awesome UML...

Ok, so it is a really bad pun.  It is tough writing blog post titles sometimes. :) Anyway, we finally got a beautiful metallic official sign for our office after inhabiting our office space for almost two years.  (Now if we could just do something about that door!).      In our...

There are two code camps this weekend: CMAP Code Camp in Maryland Pittsburgh Code Camp in Pennsylvania I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on Refactoring - a topic that is very dear to me. Register now and come along to talk code.   We are hiring!  Do you want to write beautiful...

I've said it all before in recent posts, but here it is again - CPUSS is a framework that allows you to design and analyse CPU scheduling algorithms. Download CPUSS 1.0 There is a tonne of stuff in CPUSS! Most of which is not exposed by the report generation tool (CPUSSRG). Using the CPUSS API ...