Greg Young convened an interesting fishbowl about moving architectures into the future. A number of "-ilities" are brought up in the course of this varied and good discussion. Watching this I wonder if there is an architectural future or if it's the case that we're only in the ever...

Previously: Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 7 Tiers A layer, such as we discussed Part 2 , in is not a tier. A layer is a logical unit of division; a tier is a physical unit of division. The two need not be the same. Software may be layered within a single process running on one machine or...

I did a quick streaming video today with the Separated Interface design pattern as our topic du jour. I wanted to see if the whiteboard would show up on video and if this was something people thought was valuable. It's certainly easy to pick a design pattern and talk about it fairly loosely with...

Joe Healy just called me to see if Thursday the 21st was a good day for the Day of Ajax. He just found out that the room was double booked, so we had to change our time. Hopefully, all of you who were coming can make it a day later. If not I'll plan on re-doing my presentation for the Tampa CodeCamp...

[I'm starting the buzz as early as I can...] I am in the process of putting together a free fullday training in Tampa called "A Day of Ajax" with Joe Healy (my Blog Daddy), Jim Zimmerman , and Jon Goodyear (and ASPSOFT ). The presenter list has not been finalized yet (please, Joe, please get that special...

This is just a quick post to point out an excellent one by my friend (and former co-worker) DevPrime. He writes about a technique for Using SQL Server Files for Unit Testing in VS2005 TS . Not to blow the article too much, but his idea is to create SQL Server Compact Edition files with your tests. I...

[out of date post... this deals with MS Atlas CTP... which has been change drastically and is now MS Ajax Extensions] I started a post yesterday (and I will complete it) about my experiences wiring up Atlas to a site that has multiple MasterPages (actually the site I’m working on is a portal that...

This post is a quick warning to my fellow programmers. I have 2 machine’s that I primarily use for development: An Avaratec C3500 TabletPC (which has an Athlon 2200+ XP-M CPU), and a custom built (by me) desktop (which has an Athlon 64x2 processor). I’m not a dedicated AMD fan… in...

So this week had a painful technology ending… I’m preparing a site for a beta launch. My check list for Friday had an item on the list.: Test Ajax on the Mac (using Safari). We had been testing the Mac all through our dev cycle, but somehow I managed to not test the couple of places I’m using jaajax...

[small update... I added the links to Nemerle and Boo]. No, I'm not dreaming of Halloween. I have been fooling with SharpDevelop and discovered that there are bindings for Nemerle and Boo . Since I hadn't played with either (but have heard about both via Miguel de Icaza's Blog -- the lead on Mono). Languages...