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January 2004 - Posts

Reporting is just a Service
Jan Tielens presents some ideas on how to do reporting in a SOA world and poses the question whether or not there are any other know solutions or products: In the "good old days" of pure two-tier Client/Server programming it was quite simple: the Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:37 PM (Comments Off)

Starting the conference season
The 2004 conference season is about to start. Tomorrow: OOP 2004 in Munich, then .NET Day in Vienna (Jan 28), then DevDays in Belgium (Feb 10-11), then dot.net konferenz and Basta!2004 in Frankfurt (Feb 9-12), then DevWeek 2004 in London (Feb 23-27) Read More
posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:16 AM (Comments Off)

Thank you for not verifying your input parameters
Normally it's the worst possible idea to create a program which doesn't check its input parameters. No matter if this takes the form of a data file, network buffer, command line parameter, registry setting, or user input: you should never trust it, and Read More
posted Friday, January 16, 2004 3:40 PM (Comments Off)

TheServerside.NET
While you've been out: TheServerSide.NET. Read More
posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:09 PM (Comments Off)

SoapScope 3.0
The one and only true help in Web Services world has just been released: SoapScope hits version 3.0. Congrats for shipping! I've been a SoapSope customer since the early days (which in this business admittedly weren't much more than a year ago) and Read More
posted Friday, January 09, 2004 6:41 PM (Comments Off)

Hitting 32bits
In preparations for a talk about .NET and Java interoperability at OOP 2004, I'm currently running a complete interoperability environment on my laptop. I can - theoretically at least - communicate using .NET 1.1, Indigo (in VM), BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Read More
posted Friday, January 09, 2004 5:10 PM (Comments Off)

Bare Bones SQL the Way our Fathers did
Thanks for the great feedback on my previous article on O/R Mappers. I just wanted to add some more of my 2 cents to the issue of scalability with O/R Mappers (or DataAdapters) compared to using a tasty dose of raw, handcrafted SQL in all its beauty. Read More
posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:11 PM (Comments Off)

Longhorn Application Demo
Wow - this concept video's application is massive! Read More
posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:35 AM (Comments Off)

Map This!
I'm guilty. I don't believe in O/R Mappers as general purpose solution for all applications. I think that they have some place in this world but wouldn't necessarily see them as the centerpiece of data access in most software architectures. For me Read More
posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:45 AM (Comments Off)

Emergency Landing on Field - No, not me!
Glad that I haven't been travelling today: the pilot of an Austrian Airlines flight from Vienna to Munich had to bring the Fokker 70 down in an emergency landing on a snow-covered field. (Only three injured. Great pilot, by the way!) Personal sidenote: Read More
posted Monday, January 05, 2004 1:32 PM (Comments Off)


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