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April 2006 Entries
WinForms to the Web - AJAX style - now Open Source - Visual WebGui Platform

This is a compelling platform, if it works, and it’s now going open source in hope of garnering a greater number of developers contributing and using.  The DotNetNuke folks have built a DNN administration console based upon this. - CORRECTION - Someone has built an Admin Console; not the DNN folks....

WinForms Over Web (the WOW model) is a revolutionary development & deployment platform made possible by a unique, patented, server based RIA paradigm. The WOW model enables development of rich web applications with WinForms functionality and interactivity using Visual Studio's rich design, coding and debugging features. The technology extends the .NET object model to incorporate AJAX aware WinForms GUI components that are delivered to the browser via Visual WebGui's Empty Client. Visual WebGui's Empty Client approach is similar to Server Based Computing (SBC) models meaning the AJAX client only handles the rendering of the viewable GUI while the server handles the rest. The result is an extremely secure web application with a bandwidth footprint only 1/100th of comparable AJAX/RIA solutions.

Visual WebGui Platform > Home ( DNN 3.1.1 ).

posted @ Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:27 AM | Feedback (1)
Download details: Microsoft ActiveX Analyzer Tool

Here’s a tool that will help out those webmasters that haven’t updated their pages to conform to the mandated change to IE’s handling of Object tags.  Mind you that the plaintiff in this could care less that they’ve only hurt webmasters and users in this silly patent suit. 

The ActiveX Analyzer Tool is designed to scan for and identify object, applet, and embed tags in code. The utility will output the complete file path, line number, and literal script that the tag(s) reside in so that the user can easily open the file and locate the code. Also, a total count of matches will be displayed to the user.

For more information about inactive objects in Internet Explorer, please click here

For information on activating objects in Internet Explorer, please see the MSDN article

Download details: Microsoft ActiveX Analyzer Tool.

posted @ Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:49 PM | Feedback (0)
Good example of application that leverages WinFX (WPF - aka Avalon)

Here’s a good example of great use of what’s to come in WinFX (part of Vista; add-on to XP/2003).  It’s an application that provides online/offline access to NY Times online.  Not only using WPF, but WCF (I think) for synchronization.

The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience With Times Reader: New application uses Microsoft software to benefit readers..

posted @ Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:32 PM | Feedback (0)
A terrabyte of storage for the home - no big deal anymore

It’s amazing how much storage you can have for relatively inexpensive cost with these new perpendicular storage drives.  I’m thinking how I paid just as much for 10 MBs (that’s megabytes) that I can now get 75,000 times as much storage back around 1987.  Wow, that’s a long time ago.

Seagate Technology News Release Seagate Expands Desktop Hard Drive Lead with 750GB Monster Built on Perpendicular Recording Technology.

With the introduction of Barracuda 7200.10 family, Seagate now leverages perpendicular recording technology across its desktop, notebook, enterprise, consumer electronics and retail hard drives

 

 

 

posted @ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:30 PM | Feedback (0)
NDepend has really been spiffed up!!

NDepend has been around for a while.  The author of the tool has really done a great job with the 2.0 (in beta now) release.  Very cool looking graphs, navigation panel, and query capabilities. 

If you’ve ever had to take someone elses crap code and need to figure out what’s going on, this is definitely a great aid.

How does NDepend help me have a better understanding and control over my .NET code?

NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates reports containing design quality metrics, warnings and diagrams. More on reports in the Sample Reports section.

The VisualNDepend tool allows analysing all these data thanks to an interactive view. Such view can be tuned according to numerous software metrics. Here are some screenshots of VisualNDepend. The sample analyzed application is the 15 main assemblies of the .NET Framework 2.0 (2.8M IL instructions):

NDepend.

posted @ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:20 PM | Feedback (0)
Agile and the Jelling of Teams - Reminiscient of Peopleware

Only Passionate People Win : Make sure your team is jelled before starting Agile.

This post is reminiscent of what the book Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams emphasizes, and this goes back 7+ years with this edition (I don’t know when the 1st edition was published).

Team dynamics is the foundation of longterm success.  Sure on short projects you can beat the hell out of people to get it done; but, if you looking for something beyond that, you won’t get it unless you have a well jelled team.

Demarco and Lister to me set the foundation for human oriented methods of managing software projects, people, and teams.  I was given this book back when I worked for a company in NYC called MicroModeling – which became Plural, then swallowed up by Dell, then finally this year shut completely.

To many leaders, including those in my current organization, don’t have a clue on how to jell teams and wring success from average resources.  I strongly suggest getting a copy, at least for the informational aspect.

If you’ve heard of Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software), you can also read his review on Amazon of Peopleware.

posted @ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:02 AM | Feedback (0)
Why Limited NY/NJ Metro Code Camps

Code Camp Schedule.

For being the most populated region in the country, it never ceases to amaze me the limited communal aspect of developers and things like code camps.  It seems as if the NY/NJ metro region falls short in both hosting and providing .NET related conferences, etc.

Honestly, coming from the state where the lightbulb was invented, AT&T labs, and all the high-tech over the years, It’s amazing.

It’s time to start looking to move….  Preferably to a warmer climate.

 

posted @ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:42 PM | Feedback (1)
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