Stateless?!
Welcome back ;-)
On one of those flights last week I read a short article about Enterprise Services in a developer magazine (name withheld to protect the innocent). The “teaser” introduction of the article said: “Enterprise Services serviced components are scalable, because they are stateless.” That statement is of course an echo of the same claim found in many other articles about the topic and also in many write-ups about Web services....
Roots vs. Leafs: An observation about blogosphere
It's interesting that I get far more than 10000 unique daily unique page views on the site along with a similar number of aggregator views daily without even posting much. At least that was true for the last couple of months. Today is my "get back to blogging day". At the same time, the number of tracked direct referrals that I get when someone navigates to an entry via a link on another site is relatively low...
Our “I can’t send you email” mystery; or: Worm fallout; or: DNS sucks
Sometimes you’re trying to fix a problem for ages (months in our case) and while the solution is really simple, you only find it by complete accident and while looking for something completely different.
(And yes, I do think that we need to finally get a network admin to take care of those things)
For several months, our Exchange server “randomly” denied communicating with several of our partner’s mail...
Lightweight transactions (repost)
I talked about transactions on several events in the last few weeks and the sample that I use to illustrate that transactions are more than just a database technology is the little tile puzzle that I wrote a while back. For those interested who can't find it, here's the link again. The WorkSet class that is included in the puzzle is a fully functional, lightweight, in-memory 2 phase-commit transaction manager that's free for you to use.
...Chris Anderson’s Challenge
At the SDC conference in Arnhem (NL), Chris Anderson entered the following task into his Pocket Outlook: "Turn Clemens from a server developer into a smart client developer within the next 15 months." We'll see how that goes. Chris: For that to happen, you'll have to give me something that I can seriously fall in love with.