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Bit short notice for a blog post but eminent WPF expert Paul Stovell will be presenting on WPF Architecture at the Sydney Architecture User Group on thursday 25th February. (Full details here ) Here is the abstract: .NET 4.0 will mark the fourth release
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This blog has been super quiet lately. This is mainly because I have been hard at work writing a book around .Net Performance Testing and optimisation. Well, I am happy to say that part 1 of this book is available as a free download from here . The full
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With the increasing popularity of Silverlight as an application development framework the discussion of patterns has grown louder and louder. Fortunately the majority of developers building Silverlight applications have agreed on a pattern that fits well
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I’m in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections conference and wanted to get the slides and code posted for the talks as I give them. This time around I’m talking about Silverlight (including a full-day workshop), the new Microsoft Ajax Library
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The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also
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There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET.
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The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they
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Its been a long time since I wrote a blog post but I have been a very busy boy. This week I have been at TechEd Australia on the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland. I have been keeping a pretty low profile this year but I did participate in 2 interviews that
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On a previous project that utilised WCF and Silverlight 2, I began implementing an error handling strategy that was going to rely on certain FaultExceptions being propagated to the Silverlight client. Well it turned out that Silverlight 2 does not
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Need to figure out which technology to choose for your presentation tier? Here’s a useful cheat-sheet from the Patterns & Practices folks, from their Application Architecture Guide v2.0 . Includes benefits and considerations for the Microsoft technology
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Excellent article by Werner Vogels on how to achieve eventual consistency. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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While I can’t claim to be a huge adherent of any particular set of development principles (I admire others’ passion in this area, but I’m very pragmatic when it comes to getting a given task done…there are lots of ways to do it, many of which can be “right”
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It’s lengthy, and I haven’t had the time to read through the whole thing, but this is a delightful look at the most common pattern in application architecture, the Big Ball of Mud : Abstract While much attention has been focused on high-level software
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So its been ages since my last post on this pet project of mine. Its time to get down to the nitty gritty on this and see if it is actually working the way I want it to. Hopefully, you have read parts one , two and three in previous posts to get a good
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