Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Aspect-Oriented Programming made easy with Event-Based Components
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) can help to clearly separate concerns. But it´s kinda cumbersome to do without a tool. At least if you want to do it along the beaten path of object orientation. But things become much more easy, when you switch your thinking to a different paradigm at least during high level design. -
Event-Based Components – For Easier Software Design Say Goodbye to the Usual Object Orientation
Have come to feel very uneasy with the usual object orientation. It simply does not deliver on its promises. That´s of course not the fault of object oriented languages like C# or Java or C++. It´s the fault of those who use them in a way that leads their code straight into a brownfield. And it´s the fault of those who cannot provide easy enough guidance in using these languages.
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Doing asynchronous distributed request/response service calls without WCF
In my previous blog post I hopefully was able to demonstrate how low the entry barrier is to asynchronous remote communication. It´s as easy as hosting a service like this
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Easy remote communication without WCF
If you´ve read my previous posts about why I deem WCF more of a problem than a solution and how I think we should switch to asynchronous only communication in distributed application, you might be wondering, how this could be done in an easy way.
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Conscious Incompetence - The need to transcend conventions
In his recent blog posting Seth Godin once again questions the value of competence. Sure, he does not want to people dumber. He just argues that sole reliance on competence as a compass to navigate the future can - well - be a hindrance. He´s written about it already in 1999 and made clear, that competence is about accomplishing something on the basis of existing knowledge - and thus is different from finding new ways of doing stuff. Whoever is competent is not necessarily innovative or imaginative. But that´s what we need in the face of constant change.
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What´s in a Book?
As I read Kevin Kelly´s "Fate of the Book" I come to wonder what this debate he´s referring to is all about? Is it about form or content? Is is about texts as opposed to video or audio? Is it about texts of a certain minimum length and/or structure as opposed to text snippets? Or is it about a certain physical container for texts as opposed to digital texts? Or is it about certain types of physical containers?
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New blog on software architecture - The Architect´s Napkin
Since I´m mostly concerned with software architecture and my clients are asking again and again when I´m going to write a book about the topic, I finally decided to set out and compile the material to go into the book. And I decided to do it publicly, in a new blog.
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Software Architect 2008 Sample Code
Please find the sample code for my presentations at Software Architect 2008 on Aspect Oriented Programming with PostSharp and Software Transactional Memory with NSTM here for download: -
Component orientation explained - Modern software development viewed from a musical perspective
You´re fluent in object oriented programming. But now and again you´re wondering what the fuzz about component orientation is? There is supposed to be more to it than just using 3rd party controls in your user interfaces. But, what and how?
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NSimpleDB - Use Amazon´s SimpleDB data model in your applications now - Part 4
As explained in my previous postings, I implemented a local/embeddable version of the Amazon SimpleDB data model and API in C#. You can download the sources from my NSimpleDB Google Code Project and build the tuple space engine yourself, or you download the demo application which includes the engine as a single assembly: NSimpleDB.dll.