Norwegian Visual Studio .NET 2003 launch event
I am on Norway today and I am sitting here blogging between two talks. "Say what you will say and listen to what you will listen to" was the first and now it's about Enterprise Services. It's going to take a day or two to wrap up the samples.
The final version of Steve's and my slides from the "Scalable Applications" tour is now available at www.thearchitectexchange.com. -- including all changes and tweaks that we put in during the tour. We're very happy with that content as it is now. Requests for re-runs at an event location near your house are accepted here ;)
Putting code and data into a single thing is a bad idea for distributed systems. Behavior is bound to the role that data plays in a functional scope. Presentation is a scope, calculation, combination, aggregation and validation are scopes, services and resource access is a scope. Having all code for all scopes on a single thing is bad. “Technology choice” causes inability to share implementation across organization boundaries. Mobile devices and web services are both like the “big bang”:...
newtelligence SDK for Enterprise Services 2.0 RC1
The newtelligence SDK for Enterprise Services is a set of classes and infrastructure extensions for the System.EnterpriseServices programming model to Windows Enterprise Services (COM+) in the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework. The extensions are designed to work with Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000.
The tools contained in this kit provide the following enhancements for Enterprise Services.
In the presence of significant latency or significant work to guard boundaries, throughput (read: appropriate architecture) matters, not performance (read: spending a week to shave off 50 CPU cycles).