• MIT OpenCourseWare | A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python

  This course will provide a gentle introduction to programming using Python™ for highly motivated students with little or no prior experience in programming computers. The course will focus on planning and organizing programs, as well as the grammar of the Python programming language. Lectures will be interactive featuring in-class exercises with lots of support from the course staff.

• Windows Azure Blob Whitepaper

  This document describes Windows Azure Blob, and how to use it. Windows Azure Blob enables applications to store large objects, up to 50GB each in the cloud. It supports massively scalable blob system, where hot blobs will be served from many servers to scale out and meet the traffic needs of your application.

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz – Sagas and Workflows The Saga provides a context for set of messages to allow manging an effort for distributed concensus. It does not “orchestrate” messages (that’s what workflows are for) – you can read more on Saga’s in an excerpt from my SOA patterns book:  Saga pattern.

Ayende Rahien

• Rhino Service Bus: Saga and State - On the implementation of Sagas in Rhino Service Bus
  
• Rhino Service Bus: Concurrency in a distributed world – One of them [ways to solve the concurrency problem] is to ensure that this cannot happen by locking on a shared resource when executing the saga (commonly done by opening a transaction on the saga’s row). That can significantly limit the system scalability. Another option is to persist the saga’s state in a way that ensure that we have no conflicts. One way of doing that is to persist the actual state change itself, which allow us to replay the object to a consistent state. Concurrent updates don’t bother us because we aren’t actually modifying the data.

Chris Sells -  ExtractM “Oslo” Sample a sample command-line tool for extracting M source code from compiled M images

Kirk Evans – Dynamically Invoking Web Services… With WCF This Time

Keith Brown – SslHelper – Get help running a partial SSL website in ASP.NET

Matthew.Podwysock

• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Using Type Classes
• How would the CLR Be Different? – Let’s go through just a few of them.
  • Void not treated as a generic argument type
  • Non-null references
  • Make immutability easier
  • Sheer complexity of Code Access Security
  • Pluggable JIT
  • Improved generics with higher kinded polymorphism

Nicholas Allen – Further Adventures of Aaron Skonnard Screencasts

SE-Radio Team – Episode 123: Microsoft OSLO with Don Box and Doug Purdy

Aaron Skonnard – Channel 9 Video on Cloud Services 101

Alvin Ashcraft – Web Developement Links

• Dew Drop – January 19, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 18, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 17, 2009

AWS Editor – 100% on Amazon Web Services: Soocial.com

Ayende Rahien – Discussion: OO 101 Solutions and the Open Close Principle at the architecture level

David Chappell – The Sixth Platform Mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, servers, mobile phones: That’s five,
Yet one is being born right now: The cloud is the sixth platform

High Scalability Blog

• Scalability Perspectives #5: Werner Vogels – The Amazon Technology Platform
• Messaging is not just for investment banks
• Alternative Memcache Usage: A Highly Scalable, Highly Available, In-Memory Shard Index
• How to Organize a Database Table’s Keys for Scalability
• Platform virtualization – top 25 providers (software, hardware, combined)

J.D. Meier – Grady Booch on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0

Mike Moore – Podcast on Ruby on Rails

Patrick Smacchia – Ship It Often vs. TDD

Phillipe Destoop – Birth of a brand-new architect paradigm shift: cloud computing

Steve Vinoski – More SHA in Erlang

Ted Neward – 2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

Todd Hoff – Strategy: Understanding Your Data Leads to the Best Scalability Solutions

Alvin Ashcraft – Design/Methodology links

• Dew Drop – January 6, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 5, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 5, 2009
• Dew Drop – January 1, 2009
• Dew Drop – December 30, 2008
• Dew Drop – December 29, 2008
• Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 27-28, 2008