SBC DotNet Weblog
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Collaboration in software development
Last night I attended a presentation by Drew Showers (Borland) - the subject of was 'collaboration in software development'. He spent a good deal of time reviewing RUP, UML and the software development process and less time on his company's product CaliberRM. That's good! Drew has a rich software development experience in (Lockheed-Martin, IBM etc) and his emphasis on requirements management & iterative development hit the right note. The CaliberRM (Requirements Management)demonstration was very interesting - found out that it as an API that can be made to integrate it with Visual SourceSafe!
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No Reservations About .NET
Larry O'Brien, one of the high priests of software development has an excellent article stating why he has 'No Reservations About .NET'. “What I found was that, like the apocryphal frog that sat without complaining in the pan of water slowly heated to boiling, I had been scalded by J2EE.” A must-read!
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Which OS are you?
I took the OS Personality test - I can't say I agree with it. They don't even have the Windows 98 Second Edition version... :-)
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Custom XML Schema Generator & Validator
Dan Wahlin as a great little tool that generates schemas from XML documents using DataSet schema. To complement it, there is a Schema Validator also.
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Free book chapters on SharePoint 2003 development
The supplemental chapters (Appx E, F & G) of Tom Rizzo's book, Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange 2003 (3rd ed) are about SharePoint 2003 development.
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'Feedable' Gear
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Three-day week-end (Columbus Day)
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Comparison of SQL Server 2000 with MySQL v4.1
Fairly comprehensive comparison of SQL Server 2000 with MySQL v4.1. I do a lot of work in *Data Warehousing (Biz Intelligence) and I see no provisions for *DW & Analysis Services, etc in MySQL...
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Microsoft's Project Green - this is BIG
A posting from my blog at Userland:
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The Flowchart Lie (a comment on Ingo Rammer's technote)
Ingo Rammer's current newsletter has an excellent technote on 'The Flowchart Lie'. The subject is about transactional business processes and how they are deployed. Ingo emphasizes the need for messaging systems to communicate between web services. (I call it 'musical conducting' :-) I am grappling with a similar issue while building collaboration systems (e.g., Groove & SharePoint). Collaboration processes are non-linear in nature and its context must be maintained in its entirety - call it 'gestalt' and slicing it as series of 'transactions' does not work.