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Last week in Redmond
I was at a MSFT event for the last 2 days on future VS.NET / .NET FX stuff (I'll avoid the pre-MSFT-Scoble-esque Longhorn-rocks-but-I-can't-talk-about-it-because-it's-NDA posts). I ran into a bunch of Software Legends who all knew me.
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MSDN Webcast
I'll be doing a WebCast about DeKlarit on July 11th :
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Writing code is stupid
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MSDN Magazine - Architecture of an Autonomous Application
There is an article in July's MSDN Magazine that even if it talks about Fiefdoms, it discusses the issues I've been talking about on how to map Entities to DataSets.
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Layers, messages and domain models
In some previous posts I was trying to explain why I think is better to use a message-based approach for developing n-layer applications instead of using a domain model. In some posts I've focused on the DataSet, but its not really about the DataSet but about the way of exchanging data between layers (notice Im saying layers, not tiers). This time I'll try to explain myself better ;).
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DataSets and Table Module
There seems to be some confusion between DataSets and the Table Module Fowler PoEAA's pattern.
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MagicForm
[via Larkware News]
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JavaOne Recap
JavaOne was interesting but I really did not feel excited about it.
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O/R Mappers
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Project Rave
It's a new IDE from Sun.
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JavaOne - Avoid EJB
By the way, it was fun to hear Ted Neward recommending to avoid EJB while doing a presentation inside the Oracle booth ;).
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Borland Party
I've just returned from the Borland Party at JavaOne. It was in a local club, and it was really fun. A lot of people dancing and a good 80s rock-and-roll band. I enjoyed a lot the Sweet Child O'Mine/New Sensation/Blister in the Sun combination.
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JavaOne One
So, I'm in the JavaOne Gaming Center. I never played a Java game, but if you attend JavaOne it seems that there are Java Games everywhere.
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The Entity Design Pattern
There is a good article in CodeProject about the Entity Design Pattern. The guy who wrote it is definitely in the same frequency as DeKlarit.
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More on caching
Ron Jacob's presentation on Caching was based on the patterns & practices document about Caching.
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Accidental Tourist
I'm in San Francisco waiting for JavaOne.
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Caching tip
Ron Jacobs showed this one in his Caching presentation. The idea is that you can use the ASP.NET cache from any application, you don't need to be inside a Web app:
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TechEd summary
I've attended to the last 3 TechEd editions and this one was the best by far. There were a lot of people everywhere, including the exhibit hall. I made more demos this time than in any other event.
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Cafe au Lait RSS
Cafe au Lait now has an RSS feed. I don't use Java much anymore, but I still like to keep in touch with what's going on. Subscribed.
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MS internal video
Some Microsoft guys were making a video, interviewing .NET partners and developers, asking them general questions about its relation with Microsoft. They asked me to participate so I had a 10 minute session with them. I got free make-up ;)
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Data Service Patterns
Today I've attended to Data Service Patterns (Web303), by Steve Swartz.
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My presentation at TechEd
It does look not very good to blog about my own presentation, but someone has to do it ;). I'm getting used to it ;).
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Moving to Firebird/Phoenix
The only problems I had where simply bugs in the IE CSS rendering engine, and it looks like implementing something like max-width can't be done without a change to the underlying OS.
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Clemens' Session
DEV357 'Building Distributed .NET Applications' was the only conference that I was able to assist, as I was really busy in DeKlarit's booth. Paul said it was the best overall session, so it seems I made the right choice ;).
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.NET Wrappers for Gecko
In case you missed it, A.N.Other added a comment to my recent post on Mozilla Firebird, succintly pointing to a project which is building .NET wrappers for the Gecko engine using Managed C++. I've not yet had a chance to look into this any further.
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RE: Critique of Disappointing Session at TechEd
I attended a session entitled "Object-Relational Mapping As a Foundation for ADO.NET Database Access" here at TechEd.
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Richard Klees
All speakers in TechEd can have a training session with Richard Klees. In our company we have a video where he teaches how to make good presentations, and it's quite good. When I knew I could have a session with him I applied for one, and it happened today.
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DB2 and .NET II
I had request for more info on this, so I went to the IBM booth and asked for a demo of it.
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Another .NET refactoring tool
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SQL Server Reporting Services
This white paper has a good summary of Reporting Services features.
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Bloggers meeting
I missed the Teched bloggers meeting :-(. I needed to stay in the booth while the Exhibit Hall Reception was taking place, as there was a lot of traffic. By the way, the food was quite good, and the free beer too ;).
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DB2 and .NET
An IBM guy was sit next to me with some DB2 / .NET Powerpoints, so I asked him about it. It seems DB2 is going to support running stored procedures in managed code!
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Late to Teched
OK, it was a long trip but I'm finally here in the speaker's room trying to keep up with email.