Developing .NET/C# Applications with VoltDB
Tune in as VoltDB demonstrates our “mini SQL Management Studio” for VoltDB built entirely in C#. During this webinar the presentation will include: • A primer on the basics of building C# WinForm...
View ArticleIntegrate Your Enterprise Apps 'Like a Boss'
Integrating applications and making them play nice is something developers and architects struggle with on a daily basis. There's a plethora of ways to do it, but it's hard to know which way best...
View ArticleFull-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive
If you have ever had to migrate data from any system that contains lots of data and especially history then you will have run into this problem. Effectively you have two choices: Upgrade with full...
View ArticleArchitecture and Conway’s Law
“…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” —Melvin Conway Preview Text: “…organizations which...
View ArticleHiring Programmers
Curator's Note: Originally from Dec. '10 Preview Text: 99+% of good programmers are not actively looking for a job. 99+% of the rest don’t know about your company. Of those who know, many won’t apply...
View ArticleNew MissionKit Raises the Bar for Modeling Tools
Any developer who is working with significant amounts of XML and doing data modeling or UML needs to be aware of Altova and the MissionKit. The 2012 MissionKit was just released today and it has...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Cynicism in Coding
We had no reasons to be anxious about this component. It has been running for about an year now. It used to handle around 1000 messages per day and email out a automated report twice every day. The...
View ArticleDoes the Builder Design Pattern Stand the Test of Time?
The intent of the Builder design pattern is to separate the construction of a complex object from its representation. By doing so, the same construction process can create different...
View ArticleDoes The Factory Method Stand the Test of Time?
Define an interface for creating an object, but let the classes that implement the interface decide which class to instantiate. The Factory method lets a class defer instantiation to subclasses.More on...
View ArticleCollaborative Filtering at Scale
Sean Owen from the Mahout project (& Pentech VC,) at the 2nd BigData London meetup. URL: http://vimeo.com/25178722 Download Button: filtering-at-scale.png Thumbnail Image: fast-cassandra.png ...
View ArticleCassandra in the Netflix Architecture
A talk from Denis Sheahan on Netflix's Cassandra Architecture and Open Source efforts. Presented on 28 March 2012 in Cassandra Europe. This presentation will cover: - Netflix in the Cloud - Why...
View ArticleDesign Patterns in the Test of Time: Façade
A façade is an object that provides a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library. More about this pattern. The intent of the façade was good: to wrap APIs that are poorly...
View ArticleWCF Data Services 5.1
First and most importantly, on November 7th we uploaded WCF Data Services 5.1 to NuGet. "5.1" is a deceptive version number - this release of WCF Data Services is arguably one of the most important...
View ArticleGet your UML on! in VS 2012
Are you a .NET person in need of some Unified Modeling Language design patterns. Well, it may have gone unnoticed, but Microsoft recently updated their patterns with the October release of Visual...
View ArticleRabbitMQ, Subscription, and Bouncing Servers in EasyNetQ
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that I’m currently working on a .NET friendly API for RabbitMQ, EasyNetQ. EasyNetQ is opinionated software. It takes away much of the complexity of...
View ArticleAn Action Cache
Do you ever find yourself in a loop calling a method that expects an Action or a Func as an argument? Here’s an example from an EasyNetQ test method where I’m doing just that: Preview Text: Do you...
View ArticleActuateOne for OEMs
"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet customer demand for interactivity, rich data...
View ArticleUpcoming RavenDB Webinars
The last RavenDB Webinar was really nice, so I decided to make this a bi weekly event. I hope this will give us even closer relationship with our user group. Also, this will allow us to generate some...
View ArticleModeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio
Udi Dahan - Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio from NDCOslo on Vimeo. Preview Text: As developers build larger and more distributed systems than ever before, many questions come up...
View ArticleState of the RavenDB
Here's a demo of RavenDB SQL replication and periodic backups. Preview Text: Here's a demo of RavenDB SQL replication and periodic backups. Legacy Sponsored: unsponsored
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