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My Book on WCF is now available on Google Books - perfect for those of you who don't want to buy the book to support a few starving authors .
My article on P2P programming with WCF and .NET v3.5 was finally published on MSDN . This was written a few months ago and has been going through the internal process at MS to get published- finally it is up there - better late than never I guess. I discuss the new features for P2P programming in WCF and .NET 3.5 and how things have moved up the stack in...
I was pleasantly surprised to see the appearance of my book, Pro WCF on Books24x7 today. Below is the screen shot from the email
You can download the first chapter for free from Addison-Wesley's intro book on DSL . If you are new to DSL's (Domain Specific Language) this this is a good read. Here is a abstract from the publisher: Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software...
One of the MSDN Webcasts that I along with Shawn, Dennis, and Chris did on the following topics with some samples from the WCF Pro book. This is a Level 300 Webcast, and there is a lot of material to cover! If you would like us to do a Webcast on any specific topic from WCF let us know - we will see what we can do. Hosting Options COM+ Integration Peer to...
I alongwith some of my co-authors are going to be hosting a couple of MSDN Webcasts next month - the details for both are listed below. Webcast 1 - “How to build an SOA application with WCF” Webcast 2 - "How WCF impacts on Enterprise scale applications"
The first of three articles entitled " Hosting and Consuming WCF Services" which is essentially one of the chapters from the book is now published on MSDN at the . NET home page . The article directly can be found via this link . The other two should follow soon. Excellent job guys!
APress, the publisher of my book entitled "Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation" is giving away the first Chapter for free - you can get it from here . The table of contents is also published and can be downloaded from here .
Dennis earlier was responsible for collating the code from us for the book, and he just informed us it is available online! Sweet! You can get the code from here and have a play. You will of course need .NET 3.0 RTM and preferably Visual Studio 2005. It is good to see some reviews starting to come along, if you have any questions feel free to ping any of...
I think the WCF Book that I recently finished is out earlier than a week and should be available on Jan 15th instead of the 22nd, however Amazon still shows the availability of Jan 22nd.
A number of you have pinged me asking the Table of Contents (TOC) for the Book that I recently finished . I don't know why it does not show up on Amazon or even on the publishers site , but here are a high level TOC. If you want the detailed TOC's then let me know and I can dig those out as well. PART 1 Introducing Windows Communication Foundation CHAPTER...
As some of you are aware the book I was writing titled Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is finally finished - w00t! It is right now being set and indexed and it will be off to the press in about three weeks or so. This is published by APress and it should be available by January 22nd - a little longer than usual because of the holiday season...
NeoSmart highlights about the fact that there is a possibility that .NET 3.0 might RTM in a couple of months. What would this mean? Well a couple of things. One, hopefully MS has gotten their act together and stop making huge breaking changes in every public drop. While I understand that every CTP is still early in beta and with the nature of these things...
You probably know that I am co-authoring a book along with a few other fellow Avanader’s and ex-Avanader’s who I call the Indigo Amigos. Who are these crazy people you ask? Brave enough to hang out with me. In addition to reading their names on APress or Amazon , but here are the links to their blogs/sites in ascending order: Aftab Chopra Chris...
I wanted to find out if anyone out there has read The Connection Machine - which essentially is a PhD thesis of the author's (W. Danny Hillis) and seems to be something I would be interested in. The question I have is, has anyone read it and if so what do they think of it? And if you have it, can I borrow it to read it?
Well I suppose I can talk a little about it now - after all it seems like happening. For the last few months I and a few other colleagues of mine are writing a book on Indigo, now called WCF (Windows Communication Framework). I personally am quite fascinated by communication and all the challenges that brings to the table. The book is titled "Pro WCF: Practical...
I have been eyeing the CLR via C#, Second Edition , I don't have the first edition, can anyone comment on how good/bad would it be? Of course it will be published next month, and I suppose I can get more reviews then.
I have been thinking of a couple of books and would like to know if anyone actually have bought them and what their perspective on those are? Thanks to Murty for pointing out the CLR one.... Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, & Coding: Reverse Engineering Exploits And Tool Coding For Security Professionals Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language...
Picked this story up on slashdot , so you might have already seen it there. Well I can speak of this first hand, though the write-up is intriguing, this is something I would get and read up and only then provide my perspective. Have any of you read this, if so what are your thoughts? The H1-B visa program allows many thousands of non-American technical workers...
Addison-Wesley and Developmentor have provided TheServerSide.NET with the entire book of Essential XML Quick Reference for free download. Essential XML Quick Reference is for anyone working with today's mainstream XML technologies. It was specifically designed to serve as a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical...
This morning with nothing better to do I was browsing (as usual) and came across an interesting site called All Consuming . What are they? Well I asked the same question. Turns out that they watch all weblogs for books that are being discussed and displays the popular ones on an hourly basis. I was surprised to find that they had these entries about this...
First of all, if you don't know what the hell am I talking about, jeez, where have you been buddy? If you do but have not read the book, then please do yourself a favour and do so. You can buy it from here . Once you do finish reading the book, then come back here and we can talk about it. The crux of the book relies on the golden ratio also known as the...
PAG group just released the new library . If you have been playing with the beta of this, you know there is lots of good stuff. A excellent reference to keep near you! Now that this is “public” I will be posting some of the things I find here - watch this space, and till then, read up and enjoy!
There has been a very interesting (imho) multi-part interview with the author of Beyond Software Architecture where he discussing various aspects like the relationship between Architecture, Culture and Goodness. Also goes on to discuss the social role of an architect, conceptual integrity and the importance of domain knowledge.