In preparation for the next public release of CSLA Light (CSLA .NET for Silverlight), I'm going to do a series of posts describing the basic process of creating a CSLA Light application. This first post will provide a high-level overview of the project structure and some concepts. First, it is important to realize that CSLA Light will support three primary physical architectures: a 3-tier (or SOA) model, a 3-tier mobile objects model and a 4-tier mobile objects model. At all times CSLA Light follows

I'm happy to announce our organization work is coming to fruition. BleedingEdge 2008 is taking the stage for the autumn season. Portorož, Slovenia, October 1 st , 9:00 Official site , Registration , Sponsors Go for the early bird registration (till September 12 th ). The time is now. Potential sponsor? Here 's the offering.

I've been engaged in a discussion around CSLA .NET on an MSDN architecture forum - you can see the thread here . I put quite a bit of time/effort into one of my replies, and I wanted to repost it here for broader distribution: I don’t think it is really fair to relate CSLA .NET to CSLA Classic. I totally rewrote the framework for .NET (at least 4 times actually – trying different approaches/concepts), and the only way in which CSLA .NET relates to CSLA Classic is through some of the high level architectural

I spent some time over the past few days using my prototype Silverlight serializer to build a prototype Silverlight data portal. It is still fairly far from complete, but at least I've proved out the basic concept and uncovered some interesting side-effects of living in Silverlight. The good news is that the basic concept of the data portal works. Defining objects that physically move between the Silverlight client and a .NET web server is practical, and works in a manner similar to the pure .NET

Someone on the CSLA .NET discussion forum recently asked what new .NET 3.5 features I used in CSLA .NET 3.5. The poster noted that there are a lot of new features in .NET 3.5, which is true. They also included some .NET 3.0 features as "new", though really those features have now been around for 15 months or so and were addressed in CSLA .NET 3.0. CSLA .NET 3.0 already added support for WCF, WPF and WF, so those technologies had very little impact on CSLA .NET 3.5. My philosophy is to use new technologies

I recently received this email: Thank you very much for your insightful articles concerning 2 vs. 3 tier models. It’s very refreshing to hear a view point that I’m aligned with. Here at work I’m dealing with network Nazi’s who believe there is no cost of a middle tier and that there is only huge security rewards to reap. I use your articles to support my point but I’m still not getting tremendously far. I have yet to have anyone explain to me exactly how that middle tier is going to really add a

MSR-TR-2007-112 - Niobe: A Practical Replication Protocol by John MacCormick; Chandramohan A. Thekkath; Marcus Jager; Kristof Roomp; Lidong Zhou http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=1355 The task of consistently and reliably replicating data is fundamental in distributed systems, and numerous existing protocols are able to achieve such replication efficiently. When called on to build a large-scale enterprise storage system with built-in replication, we were therefore surprised

You are in North America and not in Europe ? You want more content than what fits into a track at TechEd? No problem! Just come to the SOA and Business Process Conference that we're running October 29 - November 2 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. There'll be lots of very interesting new stuff from teams across our division here at Microsoft. And our boss speaks, too. If distributed systems and composite applications are your thing, you should be here for that conference. No debating,

Even though the TechEd Europe Developer Website doesn't yet clearly say so, Steve Swartz and myself will "of course!" be back with a new set of Steve & Clemens talks in Barcelona for TechEd Europe Developer (November 5-9). And for the first time we'll stay for another week and also give a talk at TechEd Europe ITForum (November 12-16) this year. What will we talk about? Last year we've started with a history lesson, did a broad and mostly technology agnostic overview of distributed systems architecture

Since I have been getting into a habit lately of posting videos etc.. over the last few weeks, I thought I would post some links to google Videos I found today, they are from the Google Scalability Conference that was held a while back. So here are the videos I found to date: Building a Scalable Resource Management VeriSign's Global DNS Infrastucture YouTube Scalability Lessons In Building Scalable Systems ms Scaling Google for Every User MapReduce Used on Large Data Sets Lustre File System SCTPs