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• Ibrahim Khaleel Microsoft Certifications- Good, Bad, or Ugly?

  I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right.  I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the blog. I want to know how off base or on base the architecture community feels my opinion is. Har ...Show All

• jitendra badkas MSMQ vs Event/Delegate model as foundation for flexible application architechture?

  While architecting a framework for an application that is being developed, for which we plan to use 'messaging' as the primary data/information exchange mechanism, use we came across this dilemma: To use MSMQ or Event/Delegate model of .NET To elaborate a little further, the system would consist of User Data Management, Video Capture, Printing, UI, Remote UI and Remote Control interfaces etc. ALL interactions between these modules wo ...Show All

• blange scalability implies using web services?

  Hi everyone I am an analyst- programmer here in Spain(I don't know what is the difference with a programmer, i usually do the same things) I am studying a lot about architecture right now because i am in a very big project in the company that recently has hire me, perhaps the biggest project of Spain. Because i am a computer engineer I like the big vision, not the fight with the vb6, this just pay my bills. We use a lot of com+ components, ...Show All

• D.Ware Database Bytes per LOC

  In a project estimation program, an input for the database bytes per LOC was required. I searched the web for this term and I couldn't find an explanation for it. can any one help me thanks You'd find that in sites that talk about COCOMO (and its derivatives) That is how many bytes do you have per Lines Of Code (LOC) - divide the estimated database size by the estimated lines of code (sometimes you'd find that as SLOC source LO ...Show All

• izm_ka General best practices for .NET development

  Hello, I'm an ex Java developer now working for a young and fairly naive company that is largely .NET oriented. I, and really the company as a whole, feel very much "thrown into the thick of things" and I'm positive there are better methods and techniques to accomplish my goals. I just find myself often with general questions about .NET and writing .NET applications. Ideal versioning techniques, sharing libraries we have written ...Show All

• Sidharth M Sujir A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. DDD is a good book - however it deals with a certain narrow aspect of architecture. I would recommend reading "Software Architecture in Practice& ...Show All

• XVID passing lookup values out and into services

  Hi all, This time I want you opinion on the following scenario: I have a service which returns info about an entity. Some of the information is based on lookup values (lookup=code/decode, such as "male/female", "small/medium/large" etc.) My options to output these values from the service are: 1. output them as the coded integers (male=1, female=2) - this is a problem because I shouldn't expose my inner data to the ...Show All

• Grote Oerk Why use an application server?

  My boss wants me to explain to him the advantages of having an application server in our web app. Currently our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application --SY There are two different concerns that you have to consider answering this question. #1 is whether or not it is advantageous to have a 3-layered logic ...Show All

• Mr S A good second book about architecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. Hello Jimmy, My view on XP is summarized in the first paragraph of this blog . Good luck with your upcoming release!!!  Hope you do well, a ...Show All

• Savvy Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All

• jboss UML/XMI Compatibilities : Highly Important

  Hello there, I am in a high pressure project where I have to synthesize the differences and compatibilites of different UML versions and different XMI versions and what is included in what. I have to therefore formulize to tables 1 for UML versions and its features & the other one for XMI versions and its features. and the third table for UML and XMI. Its been very difficult to do it. DO you have some idea on where i can find ...Show All

• Valery Tolkov Biztalk server 2004 Data Access

  Can I use a Data Access tier without writing a adapter in biztalk 2004 for a receive location looks difficult, perhaps another one could help more... Is there any way to activate your Receive location from a .net assembly's class or to point your rececive port to a .net class I think it should be possible, but if you really want it You are building something around Biztalk that you must test and build TDD ;-) and with perfor ...Show All

• PaterPeter Design Patterns

  What is the usage of common GoF design patterns in daily coding I ask this because as a developer I'm constantly trying to improve both my code and my overall design, to create software that's easy to maintain and easy to extend--- hopefully easy to change without effecting the 'client' aspect through the use of interfaces etc--- Is there a more straight forward application of certain design patterns For example, does anyone sit down and actu ...Show All

• Tapan Datasets as the DAL?

  I was wondering if using datasets/adapters/datatables is a good way to manage my data access layer, or if I should keeping using this generic database library one of my friend wrote. Thanks, John Well, since I don't know anything about the "generic database library" your friend wrote - I can't comment about it There are two major schools of thoughts when it comes to business logic. There are those that fav ...Show All

• angel1610 Lookup table architecture

  I come across the situation where there are many lookup tables with simple look up table structure in general. In database design I am anticipating each table with type and status looup along with some more lookups. In total if I have 250 data tables, it will take 500 lookup tables which will have 1500 DAL stored procedures and 1500 ins/upd/del triggers. I came across a way to simplfy this architecture by putting code and codeoption tables using ...Show All