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Love it or hate it UML is important for anyone involved (Architect/Developer/Whoever) - either you need to create designs based on UML and you need to understand that someone else has. Sure it has its challenges and for some specific things there are better solutions (DSL's - more on that some other...
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As Mr. Kale so eloquently puts it (and of course 100% correct): If you think you need multi-threading, you're wrong If your specification says "you need threading", see Rule 1 (For advanced users only) If you think you need multi-threading, you're probably wrong.
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I had the opportunity to present on .NET 3.0 in the Enterprise at the Architect Insight Conference hosted by Microsoft earlier this month. All the presentations from the conference are available for download and of course including my presentation (13.6 mb).
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Microsoft hosts an annual event in the UK called the Architect Insight Conference . I am one of the speakers this year and will be presenting on ".NET 3.0 in the Enterprise". This is a pretty good event and I would recommend it if you have not been to one of these. You can check out the Agenda here and...
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Firstly this is not a Java bashing and I don't preach to say .NET/C++, etc is faster. However, based on what I have seen it sure is slow - slow like a snail. Maybe its the time that takes to load the VM or maybe it Swing - gurk! I like how Andy puts it - "One man's feature is another man's bloat". He...
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The CLR team has a couple of slides from their roadshow where they talk about two tracks, one discusses what happens insight the CLR, if you have some of the books recommended in the presentation, none of this would be new to you. It covers things like the IL which is the abstract representation of an...
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There are two options when it comes to encoding in the context of webservices, e.g. .NET and Weblogic use document literal encoding while IBM and other vendors (Java) use RPC encoding. What is the difference and which one is better for which scenarios? Also, how easy is it to switch between the two?...
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Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon.com has an article which was published a few months ago where we talks about the misconception of how most people think that web services are distributed objects. Here is an excerpt from the article. The hype surrounding Web services has generated many common misconceptions...
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You might have seen this already, if not, MSDN has a six-part article extensively examining the data structures in .NET 2.0 covering the usual suspects and then some not-so-usual unless you have written some compilers such as BST’s, graphs, red-back trees, etc. Quite an interesting read when you have...
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Microsoft released the Enterprise Library based on ACA.NET which our engineering guys here at Avanade, work their butts off! Enterprise Library features new and updated versions of application blocks that were previously available as stand-alone application blocks. All Enterprise Library application...