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The past two years or so I’ve been working with a rather large team of developers on the latest incarnation of our bespoke web site platform here at Thomas Cook NE. We decided early on to use Unity and the Interception Extension at pretty much all layers across the entire site. One page view will trigger...
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I know, I know.. I've been extremely lazy lately, at least when it comes to sharing knowledge with you guys. I guess the main reason for that is that I'm currently on parental leave which means that my days are not really spent researching, architecting and developing as much as they are spent...
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I've just looked through a part of the preview of the coming online course from 2xSundblad called Architecting Service Oriented Systems – Overview. It's Flash-based with a mix of video, audio and slides. Looks very promising and it will be available for a very reasonable $399 (if you register...
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One of my favorite developer sites, Worse Than Failure (used to be called The Daily WTF), just published an article about Agile methodologies and why they suck. While I don't agree with Alex it's always fun when an analogy is turned upside down... The problem here is that the Pyramid analogy...
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It's pretty clear that there are two basic kinds of developers; those that write code only to get the job done, and those that write code which in addition to getting the job done also looks good. I'm definitely part of the latter group and I have to say that sometimes I get frustrated when working...
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I know, I know.. I'm very late to this game, but I just looked through a webcast about the Web Service Software Factory and it really looks pretty interesting. I say this much because, well, the basic architecture that their recipes produce looks very similar to the one I started to implement almost...
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På samma tema som Adminklient till entitetstjänster , dvs förenkling av utveckling i en SOA-miljö, kommer här en liten beskrivning av hur vi försöker göra det lättare att konsumera våra interna webbtjänster. Observera att samma "disclaimers"...
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Måste bara berätta att jag i torsdags (äntligen!) blev certifierad i 2xSundblads utbildning i .NET-arkitektur. Kan inte annat än rekommendera den varmt! Det har varit 12 väldigt roliga och lärorika dagar. Dessutom riktigt kul att få ägna så mycket tid åt att diskutera arkitekturfrågor med en hel drös...
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Innan jag ens börjar måste jag först dra några små "disclaimers". Det jag skriver nedan bryter mot minst en av grundpelarna i SOA (fler än så om man är lite petig). Det bör alltså användas med stor försiktighet och med en god...
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Yesterday I spent more or less the entire day trying to figure out how to add references between projects while unfolding a solution template. Turns out it was wasn't that tricky once you get the hang of GAT... Here's a step-by-step instruction: Add new arguments for the complete name of each project...
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I'm telling you, writing guidance packages using GAT can be infinitely frustrating! At least on my rather slow laptop with a measly 1 Gb of RAM. Why is that, you might ask yourself? Well, here's the process you use when finding errors in a package: Rebuild your package (about 45 seconds) Register...
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My last post was about the Guidance Automation Toolkit from the P&P team. Well, I've spent a couple of hours trying to wrap my head around it and I have to admit I'm quite overwhelmed. It is very well structured and the possibilities are endless, but the amount of XML files and other stuff is equally...
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Wow, these days it's not easy keeping up with the latest stuff from Microsoft, especially if you're an architect..! The latest thing to be released from the Pattern & Practices team is the Guidance Automation Toolkit . In short, it's a set of tools that simplifies the process of creating templates and...
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The guys at thinktecture have released a quite interesting email conversation about Interface design in distributed solutions . A rather interesting read which deals with some of the problems that tend to be ignored when discussing SOA solutions. In particular, how to map service interfaces to the underlying...
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Usually, I am very much a strict SOA advocate. I really do believe in the principles of having loosely coupled, interface-based, self-contained services. But, that doesn't mean that you're not allowed to cut some corners once in awhile! One of the problems with doing SOA based development in .NET is...