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August 2003 - Posts

Closing Words of Chapter Three
I just finished the third chapter of my next book. The final paragraph is Location transparency is a Siren as it lures people into making bad software design decisions. If you want to improve your application's scalability and robustness, you should Read More
posted Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:30 AM (Comments Off)

Don on Indian restaurants and working at Microsoft
Don: Since nearly everyone working in XML and web services will soon work for Microsoft, ... Must .... be .... strong ..... Read More
posted Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:44 AM (Comments Off)

Larry on Airline Reservation Systems
Larry comments on my previous criticism of using airline reservation systems as a perfect example of a distributed application. That's great because he has actually spent some time implemeting this kind of system and it's even worse than it appears. Read More
posted Monday, August 25, 2003 7:45 PM (Comments Off)

Airline Reservation System
I just read up on the assignments for Monash University's CSE5000 - Distributed Object Technology. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the certain feeling that two of the most common samples for two of the most important technologies are somewhat flawed: Banking Read More
posted Monday, August 25, 2003 7:33 AM (Comments Off)

Greatings to Students of CSE5000 at Monash University
It seems as if there might be some folks from Monash University's CSE5000 class visiting this web site in the next couple of days. At least when looking at this week's required reading: Week 6 Reading .NET Remoting Use-Cases and Best Practices. Ingo Read More
posted Monday, August 25, 2003 7:17 AM (Comments Off)

US Work Permit - Any Friends Of Lawyers Around?
Update (08/24/2003, 8:40 pm): I received a lot of positive email from people sharing their experiences. Just a couple of minutes ago, I got in touch with a lawyer who is specialized on these matter. Thank you all for helping me and sharing your experiences! Read More
posted Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:28 PM (Comments Off)

Starting a New Book
During the last 16 months, I received (and mostly answered) roughly 3,000 emails from developers around the world. Most of them dealt with .NET Remoting related stuff, but a large percentage also asked questions which were just too difficult to explain Read More
posted Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:54 AM (Comments Off)

Microsoft Regional Director
As you probably know, a number of popular .NET related weblogs are published by Microsoft Regional Directors. On last Friday, Eileen - Program Manager for this small group - invited me to join them! Woohoo! Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're Read More
posted Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:51 AM (Comments Off)

Hey, it's cool to
Hey, it's cool to see that Sam is back again. He'll be at the PDC. So will I. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:33 PM (Comments Off)

We're Moving
Prologue: Right now, I'm sitting in my flat in downtown, Vienna/Austria in the hottest summer for the last 100 years. Downtown means that I'm literally living about a five minute walk away from all the beauty (aka "sightseer's must visit") in Vienna. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:31 PM (Comments Off)

Shingle, sidewalk, and such
It's time to put my shingle on the side walk again: I'm available for consulting work for the next couple of weeks. To see how I can help your project with architecture, design, and implementation please check out my newly updated consulting section Read More
posted Monday, August 04, 2003 3:44 PM (Comments Off)


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