Steve in the house
Steve Swartz and myself have been preparing our "Scalable Applications" tour over the last three days, and in between things we spent some time at Patricia's and my families' houses for holiday lunches and afternoon coffee, opened the BBQ season on our balcony, watched the sunset at Düsseldorf's Rhein riverside over some Alt-beers and are now getting ready for travel. Tuesday we'll speak in Warsaw, Thursday in Bucarest, Friday in Moscow...
AspectServicedComponent, NETFX 1.1 and GC
This morning I had the first chance to compile my AOP framework for Enterprise Services on the RTM versions of VSNET 2003 and the Framework 1.1. At first sight, the stress tests showed that something was still leaking memory, but -- oh, wonder! -- about 10 minutes into the stress test run, it all seems to stabilize and the heap sizes in all GC generations including the critical Gen 2...
A search for "definately" yields "about 686.000" links on Google, but none in the dictionary. Last time I looked, it was definitively spelled "definitely".
Content Pipelines?
On the flight from Athens to Madrid this last week I had an idea that I'd like to float in order to see what other people think.
The weblog infrastructure that I am (still, due to little free time) building, has its own aggregation system that flows aggregated content though a pipeline until it's pushed into the storage system. So, what the system does is to pull content from RSS feeds, from Exchange public folders,...