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• Dan.G how to install several programs in farm

  I am beginning in a project which is a total disaster. The company has done a lot of things that I don't like so much, but I am an analyst-programmer, so I have not voice for changing anything. One issue is that all the modules of the different programs are in all the machines of the farm (>100 servers). So the load is balanced between all of them. I think that this works but isn't a good policy: 1) Perhaps if a program fails It c ...Show All

• Tom Craig Architecture Meetings

  I last joined the Patterns and Practices summit in Redmond , and I think that is a great meeting for software architects to meet other architects and to learn some new patterns and best practices from Microsoft. Patterns is a must know for a software architect.   Does anybody know other meetings and has an opinion about it, I think that there are a few which you must join, one of them is the patterns summit, the other i ...Show All

• KIV rule->Code generation

  there is a rule engine ILOG rules for.net which can create c# code from the rule created in it to improve the performance at runtime. Do we have some other rule engine which has this kind of feature. Also do workflow engines (like K2 etc) has the same kind of feature.If yes ,please name a few Tic Hi Arnon, Thanks for your suggestions.I will definitily use the simulation to get the resutls for a sam ...Show All

• BasL 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. I haven't read this one - but I really disliked his other book (Service-Oriented Architecture : A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services) ...Show All

• beedub the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. We evaluated a series of ORM tools, and ended up with Codus http://www.adapdev.com/codus/index.aspx It's based on NVelocity, a template based code generator.  We chose Codus because it matched our thinking best, which is more in the domain camp than in the table driven camp.  NHibernate and LLBLGen Pro was also serious candidate ...Show All

• aburri Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks TadAnderson wrote: A good architect remains a good developer, but a good developer doesn't make a good architect. Just like a software engineer is a good software craftsman (a.k.a. software developer), but a good software craftsman doesn't make a good software engineer. There are a ton of debates on ...Show All

• Gary Carlson %TEMP% Env Variable

  Is there a need for having multiple values for the System's %TEMP% variable From a design point of view, is it safe to assume it as a single valued variable Incase it is a multi-entry variable is there a registry entry or some reference that separates the %TEMP% value created by Windows and %TEMP% value created by a 3rd party program How can I make sure that I use the one that is defaulted/created by Windows Thanks in advance! whe ...Show All

• pratty Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• stayfitsoftware Software Development Processs Question

  Hey, i am doing an assingment on Software Development/Engineering Process. My question: Is evolutionary prototyping a process of the Prototypical Model or is it a model. like, the waterfall is a process of the Linear Model If its not a process, could you please tell me a few processess of the Prototypical Model and also process that use evolutionary prototyping. cheers I tend to see Evolutionary Pr ...Show All

• Anders E. Aabakken Entity Aggregation in the BLL/DAL world

  Hi all, I've started to read the paper about entity aggregation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dngrfSOAChallenges-EntityAggregation.asp ) and I've started to wonder - In layered service programming, where you have the service interface, the business process, business components and data components, we sometimes want to do an aggregation of entities (for example - an order might contains the order ...Show All

• Szilard Who is the appserver in .NET?...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server?

  Some days ago, a coworker ask me the following question: Who is the appserver in .NET ...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server ...after thinking for 5 seconds, I decided to anwser...well...it depends...could we all of them or neither. What do you think about From software engineering point of view, there are several services that an application server should offer. Moreover, today's business environment add some ...Show All

• Marcio DTP SOA and the next achritecture?

  Hello, are there any meanings or researches what comes after SOA Regards, Jens Hibbeler Jens, I can't give you a real serious answer. I'm sure something will always come next, but what the next hot architecture topics is I can't say. The funniest thing I have heard lately is that SOA is on its way out and the Web 2.0 is the thing. I find this funny because it is like comparing apples to ...Show All

• nathan koterba Advantages of OOP ?

  Hello, Im a fun of OOP designs. I design my bussiness classes when I start a new project. Then maybe I will write mapper classes for bussiness classes to map DB tables or using an O/RM tool or an ODBMS . Think that this project is big one and it has long deadline. You will develop it 2 or 3 years. Requirements will be changed. To develop this project with OOP designs and n-Tier application design is good idea. But I am asking myself ...Show All

• Rob314159 Top Down or Bottom Up SOA?

  This question has been plauquing me for a while. When attempting to deliver to an enterprise service-oriented strategy is it better to do bottom up governance or top down Here's what I mean by this. 1. With bottom up design governance you work to have any line of business application deliver services at the time they deliver their application. Through the conceptual design and envisioning of this application discrete business functions are f ...Show All

• PatAzzarello windows scheduler - who gets the CPU?

  Can anyone point me to a good whitepaper on the windows scheduler I am not looking for the task scheduler applet in control panel, but the internals of how the kernel does the job scheduling, prioritization or jobs, priority boosts, context switching, etc. I am looking at this from a QoS perspective, and want to better understand the internals of how the windows kernel decides who gets the CPU. Any information would be greatly appreci ...Show All