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• New and Notable 176

  TGIF!! I am super busy right now designing a multi-CPU/multi-threaded Parallel Calculation Engine and diving into the science of Parallel Computing. I'll have some links when I get a chance. Windows Workflow Tomas talks about Silver , the integration of WF + WCF. The marriage is sorely needed because, as I have posted here , the current situation well, sucks. Silver uses Queues and bypasses EDS completely, which is what anyone needs to do to have any real success of communication into Workflows. Because we could not use Orcas here, we actually implemented our own version of the mechanism to avoid the hell that is EDS. Jon Flanders , the guy that helped me with the above, also worked on the PageFlow Sample that has been updated to V1.1 Even more interesting is that he has working on this project for hosting Workflows inside of BizTalk. This is very interesting as developing your own host is so not trivial, but I totally challenge Paul's assertion that " No BizTalk Experience Required ." Architecture Steve Jones has a post YAGNI, Requirements and why scaling isn't always important that I totally agree with and is in-line with what I try to do as an " Agile Architect ": "Split information exchange from the business services, and worry about the scaling that is appropriate for your information exchange. Don't worry about technical purity and some "wonder" architectural approach. Don't over engineer because if you do X (or R) then it will scale to 100,000 users, but your requirements say "6". Software Design/Agile/XP/Design Patterns/CAB Number 11 for Jeremy in his continuing excellent series on UI Design Patterns in Build your own CAB #11 - Event Aggregator Jeremy has another big AMEN post for me in his Design for Testability , which really goes with my Writing Maintainable Code post, "" Done, done, done " isn't just writing code. It's writing code and verifying that that code works correctly. Read More... Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 1:14 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF/Indigo | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, LINQ and OR/M, New and Notable, Data, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile, Agile and Extreme Programming, CAB, Agile Development, Smart Clients, Windows Workflow, Workflow, BizTalk Server, Orcas, .NET Framework 3, Software Design, Agile Programming, Dependency Injection, Design, Design Patterns, YAGNI, LINQ to SQL

• New and Notable 129

  Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling the Synchronization Process LINQ and Family/CLR PLINQ, which I blogged about some time ago has surfaced again with this post from DonXML where he does some clever reading of Microsoft job posts! to make some educated speculations on the growing importance of Concurrency and Parallellism in the CLR as well as PLINQ . And yes, Don, "the cool kids [ALREADY] realize that WPF, WCF and WF are yesterday's news, and LINQ is where it is at ;)" Speaking of LINQ, see the XMLTeam blog for the announcement of the LINQ to XSD Preview and these links: Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Also from Joe Duffy, see Vista SRWLock acquires during shutdown Architecture Validation Application Block: Revealed! [via Mike ] Technorati Tags: Software Development , Software Architecture , WF , Workflow , BPM , LINQ , PLINQ , SOA , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , CLR , Windows Vista , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:08 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, CLR, Software Architecture, SOA, LINQ and OR/M, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, LINQ, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Workflow, BizTalk Server,  Software Development, PLINQ,  WF, BPM