Recently I put my mind towards developing a fairly light rules based utility for applying various logical patterns on top of some linear business data. Honestly, my initial thoughts were “oh no, not another boring rules based implementation” because we (ought to) know how boring that can be – and […]
Yearly archives: 2010
74 posts
Thursday morning started pretty well the same as every weekday. I’m sure you know how it goes; you go through the motions to get yourself prepared for the day, shower, dress, eat breakfast and so on. On my way out the door I get an SMS – “Janet (not her […]
Just when you thought it was safe to talk about mobile phones again – the hyper-marketing(tm) machine (a.k.a the Microsoft Marketing department) is back and this time they’re trumpeting the Windows Phone 7 (is it just me, or is that a stupid name?). Whilst Microsoft is no stranger to the […]
Well, it is about that time of the year when TechEd Australia kicks off; this year it is being held on the Gold Coast in Queensland. As usual the location doesn’t vary much, TechEd has alternated between Sydney and the Gold Coast over the past half decade, which leaves me […]
Introduction Now if you are like me, you’ve probably had some interest in POCO (plain old CLR objects) objects for at least some time. They are an invaluable tool in the distributed systems and service oriented architecture areas, but up until now they’ve been inaccessible for those designs. In a […]
Recently I answered a question on Stack Overflow where someone was interested in mapping a character to an Enum value. Obviously this isn’t something naturally possible with Enums, so I proposed the following solution. I’ve previously blogged about a generic approach to working with Strings and Enums here. If we […]
Hi Everyone, Well, I said I’d do it, and I will be – I’ve spent several hours putting together a sample DB and solution which demonstrates how to support Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects serialized in and out of WCF Services. In a word, it’s going to be a lengthy […]
You might find this information handy if you work with Windows Services, and wish to grant some basic permissions to user accounts. In my scenario, I wanted to be able to list the status of several key Windows Services used in my overall architecture (for a diagnostic website/control panel) and […]
Someone kindly posted this excellent flowchart in Stack Overflow which helps to identify the most appropriate WCF Service bindings to use in a solution. There’s another version located here: http://architectopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/wcf-binding-decision-chart.html Not a bad little reference chart!
Just a quick word to point out that the most recent version of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 4 was released recently (on the 13th of July) and is worth a look if you are using the Entity Framework in any meaningful fashion. Check back soon, we’ll […]
<Professor Farnsworth>Good news everyone</Professor Farnsworth> We’ve successfully migrated away from Live Spaces (well, almost) and are now nice and happy in the new home at Sanders Technology. There are still a bunch of links in the various articles which refer to the file storage at Live Spaces, and a few […]
As it turns out, the idea of filtering the Internet is hardly a new one. In the mid 90s, the CSIRO was asked to investigate the feasibility of filtering Australia’s Internet traffic. The final report is available for reading here. You may be surprised (or not) to learn that the […]
Well, we’re slowly getting a new home set up. Live Spaces has been a convenient, albeit very restrictive, home for the past four and a half years but it has proven to be just too damned restrictive. With the recent removal of the stats tab, and the fact we can’t […]
Well this is my first post to the new site from Live Writer. Hopefully, if all goes well, you will be reading this without any hassles. I’ve got to say that configuring IIS 6, PHP 5.2 and WordPress 3.0 has been a very time consuming and sometimes baffling process for […]
Hi There! As I mentioned in my “regular” blog – on live spaces – I’m going to be moving all that content over to this site. Please be patient, it’s going to be a lengthy migration I fear. Obviously this is a WordPress site, so I’m hoping to use all […]