| 1. |  | 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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| 2. | | Note enough commute time - Captured: 5-1-2005 11:14:00
About a 1 ½ years ago, I decided to purchase an iPod and get a membership with audible.com (which I highly recommend) in an effort to “read� more. Since the birth of my second child in mid-2003, my amount of free leisure time had been drastically cut and hence my reading time had become almost non-existence. I am pleased to announce that this experiment has been quite successful, and in fact – I am basically stopped listening to the radio during my 70 minutes of total commute...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 3. | | Creating a Business Logo - Captured: 2-2-2005 16:27:00
Ian Landsman from UserScape posted an article on his weblog about the process of creating a logo for his small software company and his product. Interesting reading for anyone running a MicroISV.
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 4. | | Envisioning blogging without er, throwing up - Captured: 10-1-2005 15:39:00
Next week I get to do yet another presentation with Robert Scoble, Blogger at Large. It's always a pleasure because Robert is so darn sunny in his personality and he's a natural presenter - he digs that evangelism thing and can wing it on notes taped to his sleeve. I am of course more terrified and methodical, especially when ( as with the Webcast we did together) the audience is people who do evangelism for a living and present all the time. I live and die by the Powerpoint. Oh and Advil, never...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 5. | | no source? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:27
Sorry 'bout the lack of a source code yesterday. Life got in the way
again. I went up to Blackbushe airport to get all the info on obtaining
my fixed-wing add-on. I thought I was pretty much immune to getting
lost with my Audi's fabulous gps/route planner. Unfortunately many
addresses in the UK are really only trackable by postcode. Many houses
don't have numbers, just names. The airport is in Camberly. No street
name. Unfortunately the Audi system doesn't 'do' postcodes, so I saw a
lot o...
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 6. | | 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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| 7. | | April Reagan is Blogging - Captured: 5-2-2005 1:45:00
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here (rss). Here's a link to her first post, be sure to stop by and say hi!
Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Box PM
A box program manager is basically a project manager without any direct reports (unless, of course you are a box PM lead). In other words, ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 8. | | Visual C++ Developer Center - Captured: 3-2-2005 14:38:00
We made some tweaks to the Visual C++ Developer Center today. We added the top five threads from three different newsgroups to the home page. This will make it easy to see what people are talking about around Visual C++ in the newsgroups. For now, I've added the following groups:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc
microsoft.public.vc.language
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
This is sort of an experiment. Add a reply to this thread to let me know...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 9. | | 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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| 10. | | From VAX to Windows - Captured: 19-1-2005 17:29:50
When I first got involved with Microsoft
it was around 1990 or ’91. The world of the time was dominated by IBM, with
DEC a close second. If you wanted to network PCs you used Novell or Banyan. All PC
programs were DOS programs. “Windows” was just one of many graphical libraries
being used by software to handle drawing on the screen. And if you wanted to do real
work you used a mainframe or minicomputer.
At the time, M...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 11. | | Less choice leads to better results? - Captured: 8-1-2005 5:23:13
Less choice leads to better results.
Higher level languages and frameworks
restrict choice.
Thus, higher level languages and
frameworks should lead to better results.
The “less choice” statement
flows from this article entitled Choice
Cuts. Ignore the politics
and focus on the research beneath the statement. That’s what is valuable in
this context.
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 12. | | A is for Academic Excellence - Captured: 30-1-2005 22:17:22
Like many compellingly outrageous
topics on education I’ve had brought to my attention, this one was found at Ernie’s
3-D Pancakes.
Here is an article
on the subject…and another.
The thrust of the story is, this
17-year-old kid wanted to get into an honors math course at his high school, and as
a condition of admission into this class he has to complete three very difficult calculus
problems over th...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 13. | | Drill Sergeant Voice - Captured: 28-1-2005 20:15:11
Oh Lordy!
I had to use my drill sergeant voice today.
Now, normally, I am into the whole pro-active discipline thing. My kids are
very sensitive and spirited, so I try to minimize disruption, stick to a
schedule, keep things predictable and consistent...use reminders and
re-direction...etc.
&nb
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 14. | | 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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| 15. | | Test drive of new Google Maps - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Google recently launched a beta version of Google Maps:
"Google Maps is an online service that allows users in the U.S. to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions quickly and easily."Includes features for viewing maps, local search within the displayed map area and driving directions. For example, I entered in my city/state and Google Maps quickly showed a map of
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 16. | | Yahoo to launch search tool Y!Q - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
MercuryNews.com ran a short article today announcing that Yahoo is launching a new search tool (Y!Q tool). Yahoo boasts that it's the first contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading. You can test it out on Yahoo News
Tags: Yahoo, Y!Q, Search Engine, Search
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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