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| 2. |  | Foundations: Usability  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Despite what some applications display, the UI does not exist to show the user how the code works under the hood, what the data structures are that store the user's information, nor the graphical embodiment of the organizational structure for the team working on the project. The User Interface exists for the benefit of the user, and should be designed around the user. Novel concepts, huh.
Full article ==> Foundations: Usability
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Is anyone really buying this? - Captured: 6-1-2005 22:34:00
A data layer is all about abstracting the explicit boundary between the application/ domain model and the persistence datasource. Although this boundary can never be totally transparent, the data layer does its best to expose the persistence data in a way which can be easily and suitably utilized by domain model. A simple example is accessing a file through a reader interface which abstracts the user from the underlying details of reading a file from disk. A more compl...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 4. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 5. | | Responding to feedback - Auto Position feature has been added to the designer - Captured: 28-9-2004 16:22:00
After hearing a lot of support for the idea of automatically positioning controls, I got the go ahead to implement the feature. The fact that we are able to respond to what customers ask for is very encouraging - I hope that this and other examples (such as Mikhail's) will help to create a positive feedback loop where we implement more suggestions, so people are more likely to communicate with us, and therefore we get more data, which allows us to even better implement suggestions, and so on. He...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 6. | | Searching Through Video and Audio Content - Even With MSN - Captured: 29-1-2005 18:47:05
Video search engines have been getting quite the hype this week as Yahoo! and Google introduced
a video search engine to the public. But wait, only Google truely searches in video
content. Yahoo! only searches through images names and basic meta data. But if you
think they are pioneering anything at all, you are quite wrong. At least HP
has been providing the same service long before.
So audio mining has been around since some time, even for your own use,&...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 8. | | Kickboxing through molasses, or, the ancient curse - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:06:00
First, I'd like to offer my sincere apologies as program manager for Gotdotnet - the only one left standing I might add, except for Texas Ops Ranger Clayton - for the fact that both the site and Workspaces was down today. I know that Workspaces started acting, well, tetchy over the weekend. I was actually online on Sunday and saw it happen, and started flagging the Microsoft.com ops folks at that point. Little did I know what would await for me (and you) this morning. So, we had a hardware...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 9. | | ASP.NET 2.0 product design changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Captured: 15-11-2004 19:07:00
Today the Web Platform and Tools Team is proud to announce two product design changes made directly in response and in conjunction with community feedback. The changes, detailed below are focused around two key areas. First, in September, we announced changes to the special private ASP.NET 2.0 directory naming. Based on feedback, we are revising these names. Second, we are making changes to the compilation model in order to enable ASP.NET 1.x like behavior where the .asp...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 10. | | Can a Service have Tiers? - Captured: 4-2-2005 6:32:50
One last post on SOA from my coffee-buzzed,
Chicago-traffic-addled mind.
Can a Service have Tiers?
Certainly a Service can have layers.
Any good software will have layers. In the case of a Service these layers will likely
be:
1. Interface
2. Business
3. Data
access...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 11. | | Remoting vs Web Services vs ES/COM+/DCOM - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:11:20
I’ve hashed and rehashed this topic
numerous times. In particular, read this and this.
But the debate rages on, paralyzing otherwise perfectly normal development teams in
a frenzy of analysis paralysis over something that is basically not all that critical
in a good architecture.
I mean really. If you do a decent
job of architecting, it really doesn’t matter a whole hell of a lot which RPC protocol
you use, because you can alwa...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 12. | | Web services, DataSets and now...Business Objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:10:21
Sahil has some interesting
thoughts on the web service/DataSet question as well.
He spends some time discussing whether
“business objects” should be sent via a web service. His definition of
“business object” doesn’t match mine, and is closer to Fowler’s
data transfer object (DTO) I think.
It is important to remember that
web services only move boring data. No
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 13. | | More on web services and DataSet objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 16:13:49
OK, so Shawn has some good
points about the use
of a DataSet for the purpose of establishing a formal contract for your web service
messages. This is in response to my previous
entry about not using
DataSets across web services.
The really
big distinction between using web services for SO vs n-tier remains.
If you are doing SO, you need to
clearly define your message schema, and that schema m...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 14. | | Thoughts on passing DataSet objects via web services - Captured: 24-1-2005 4:06:20
Every now and then the question
comes up about whether to pass DataSet or DataTable objects through a web service.
I agree with Ted
Neward that the short
answer is NO!!
However, nothing is ever black and
white…
For the remainder of this discussion
remember that a DataSet is just a collection of DataTable objects. There’s no
real difference between a...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 15. | | 20 Year Usenet Timeline - Captured: 10-1-2005 16:45:59
Google has released a 20
year timeline of usenet newsgroup history, highlighting notable events along the
way.
I find it very interesting to see the history of the “world's largest BBS“.
Personally I got involved in usenet in 1989 or 1990. I was working for a bio-medical
manufacturing company, and managed to convince a local defense contractor to allow
us to tap a usenet feed off them. The feed came through our 1200 baud modem, with
us dialing...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 16. | | Not for the fainthearted or symbol-minded - Captured: 2-2-2005 20:10:22
I
never really got into the whole conspiracy theory thing. For
instance, I’ve never seen even a single full episode of The X-Files. For
one thing, I already had enough T.V. to watch, for another, David Duchovney (or however
you spell it) always seemed like kind of a dick. And
I found it annoying how every other woman on the planet seemed to think he was hot,
when I looked and looked, and just saw a scrawny, too-full-of...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 17. | | My service to Humanity - Captured: 27-1-2005 17:02:11
Here’s
a site that let’s you know how a particular company scored on human rights and
environmental concerns in the U.S as well as globally You can also compare them
with their competitors, and make certain that your dollars are going to support the
kinds of things that are important to you and your community. Also...they list
known subsidieries and allied companies, to help you untangle the maze:
&n...
From: Anomalous Data |
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