ASP.NET finally having the first beta release…

Almost a year of community tech preview, the first true beta of the ASP.NET MVC framework has been released. It is a radical departure from the WebForms that has been promoted in the past, returning to mainstream web programming. The MVC pattern used in most of the current framework such as Ruby on Rails and [...]

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MS Arch Journal 17

Journal 17: Distributed Computing.
Welcome to the 17th issue of The Architecture Journal! In this issue, we focus on Distributed Computing. We are approaching an inflection point with today’s hardware and technologies where a vision from only a few years ago is becoming reality—from deploying applications on microscopic devices in our environment through to football-sized datacenters [...]

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NHibernate 2.0 is here…

NHibernate 2.0 was made official with the announcement of its general availability by Ayende Rahien. You can download the latest build here. The announcement follows months of alphas and release candidates and now matches the features of Hibernate 3.2.

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Gate’s last Microsoft Keynote to Developers in TechEd

Full of bells-and-whistles of Velocity, Oslo, Sync Framework and .NET parallel extension. Gates also disclosed that UML will be part of Visual Studio 10, which I asked for years… The reappearance of the general-purpose industry standard UML for modeling in the flagship products in Microsoft’s developer line comes after several years of emphasis on special-purpose Microsoft-brewed DSLs, or [...]

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EF Debate…

As the new VS2008 SP1 is coming out the door, Scott have a great post for all the improvements… One of the data development improvement is ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Danny Simmons, a Microsoft developer for ADO.NET Entity Framework project, has recently written a blog post comparing the Entity Framework with other data access solutions, which create [...]

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I believe every architects/developers have similar experience…

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ASP.NET MVC Real projects & resource pointers

Since the second tech preview relaese of ASP.NET MVC in MIX08 on March, there is a lot of activities in the community to start using it for real application now… Besides Scott’s formal detail about the ASP.NET MVC, there is a few good resource to help us up to speed…
Rob Conery has been used the MVC Framework [...]

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MS Architecture Joural 15

Journal 15: THE ROLE OF AN ARCHITECT.Welcome to the 15th issue of The Architecture Journal! In this issue, we wanted to kick start a discussion about our emerging profession. We’ve assembled a wide variety of perspectives from architects throughout the industry and at organizations like IASA and the Open Group. Download your electronic copy HERE.

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 Videos

Day 2`s Session Videos
You can check my notes on the sessions that I’ve attended here
Keynote (Day 2) – Enterprise Architecture at the Government of Canada
The Government of Canada has started to apply EA in innovative ways and they are getting results in ways (and places) you will not expect. Come learn how Canada’s Chief Architect [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 My Notes

Day 2 in general is interesting… but when I found that Simon Guest won`t come tomorrow, a bit disappointed. For the full list of sessions videos, click here
KeyNote: EA – Everything Aligned
Gary Doucet from Government of Canada shared his insight in EA implementation. He emphasised that the enterprise architecture already exist in the enterprise… just [...]

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