wsdac

WSDAC#18 - V8 Chrome and the future of the web

Coding the Architecture Blog -Discussion from the May 2008 user group building a high volume, low latency system in Java

Dare Obasanjo - Fixing the HTTP Polling Problem: Some Thoughts on FriendFeed’s Simple Update Protocol (SUP)

Bob McIlree -Why Always Having a “Plan B” Matters, interesting anecdote

Camp Sean - Interview with Joe Brockmeier - openSUSE Community Manager at Novell

J.D. Meier

• My Favorite Software Books
• patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Project
• SourcesOfInsight.com is Now Live

Jack van Hoof -Then these criteria may be of any help to you come up with easy design decisions

Jon Udell -Activating the web: One programming language or many? on the V8 javscript VM from Google

Matthew Podwysocki -

• Functional Programming Notables #1
• F# Releases September 2008 CTP!

Nicholas Allen - Composing Compression and Encryption

Surekha Durvasula

• Architecture tenets of High Cohesion and Loose Coupling
• Business Architecture – Process Architecture and Information Architecture!

Raymond Lewallen -An entry into lean

Todd Hoff

• Some Facebook Secrets to Better Operations
• Product: ScaleOut StateServer is Memcached on Steroids

Harry Pierson - Morning Coffee 173 F# language related news and links

WSDAC#17 - 97 Things Every Architect Should Know!

Dare Obasanjo

• How Facebook Keeps Memcached Consistent Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers
• Best Practices for Web Sites Seeking to Prevent Service Degradation due to 3rd Party Widgets

Phil Haack - Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET

Jeff Atwood - Deadlocked! On deadlock issues in SQL Server

Jon Udell - Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax

NickMalik - Traceability, the Solution Model, and Metamodeling

Phillipe Destoop

• Burton Group: Open Source Software - Risks and Rewards
• Businesslink: Pricing your product or service
• Enterprise Architects finally value Infrastructure Architects

Simon Guest - Architecture Journal Issue 16 Released, and Issue 18 Call For Papers

Ted Neward - Rotor v2 book draft available, book on the open sources SLR implementation

Todd Hoff

• Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
• A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture

Via Stefan Tilkov

• Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
• How To Launch Software
• 97 Things Every Architect Should Know
• Features of Common Lisp

Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 - [Rough Cut]

WSDAC#16 - Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Via Harry Pierson - Monads through pictures

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Evolving Architectures: Architecture Retrospective

Ayende Rahien

• Multi Tenancy - Keep It Simple, REALLY Simple
• DSL Patterns - Multi File DSLs
• DSL Patterns - User Extensible Language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #11 - August 15, 2008 - Interesting architecture links

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

J.D. Meier

• Software Methodologies at a Glance
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs

Matthew Podwysocki

• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Redux
• Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Robert Scoble

• The most important Google Tool for businesses (that you probably have never used)
• Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Steve Vinoski - You Have to Experience It - on having strong opinions without experience using a particular technology/methodology…

Ted Neward - The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Todd Hoff - Strategy: Serve Pre-generated Static Files Instead Of Dynamic Pages for performance

Via Stefan Tilkov - Interesting anecdote on Availability Enlightenment

Hanselminutes Podcast - jQuery with John Resig

WSDAC#15 - Art of gathering business requirements

Steve Yegge - Business Requirements are BS! - very interesting read

Dare Obasanjo

• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy
  

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Dave Linthicum - A good enterprise architect should see blurry

High scalability site

• The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
• Distributed Computing & Google Infrastructure

Harry Pierson -IronPython Beta 4 Released

Microsoft JobsBlog - Advice from technical leaders

Nick Malik -Merging EA Frameworks

Shivprasad Koirala

• UML Interview Questions Part 1
• Software Architecture Interview Questions Part 3 State Pattern, Stratergy pattern,Visitor pattern, Adapter and fly weight

Software Engineering Radio -Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

Todd Hoff

• Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
• Strategy: Let Google and Yahoo Host Your Ajax Library - For Free

wsdac#14 - Monads for imperative language programmers

Dare Obasanjo

• Paul Graham, Changing the World and “Built to Flip” Startups
• Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development

Simon Brown

• Mind the gap again, on the difference between a technical manager and technical lead
• On why architect experience should guide, not constrain technology solutions

Martin Fowler- Dsl Book Roadmap, more on the DSL boook

Ayende Rahien -Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo: Chapter 9 - Versioning

Sean Campbell - Interview with Gabor Cselle - VP of Engineering at Xobni

Haacked - What Integrated Circuits Say About Testing Your Code

Harry Pierson

• Series on monads, [if you are] coming from the object/imperative world of languages like C# [or java], [and] had a hard time wrapping my head around this concept…
• IPy Post 2.0 Roadmap Clarifications

J.D. Meier -On the Lessons Learned from his mentor

Jeff Atwood -On Our Project, We’re Always 90% Done

Jon Udell - How Microsoft’s External Research Division works with a new breed of e-scientists

Mike Taulty - Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline ( Part 2 )

Todd Hoff - A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together

Videos and Podcasts

Hanselminutes podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) - Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2

WSDAC#13 - SCRUM resources

Greg Duncan - An excellent compendium of Scrum Resources

Stefan Tilkov - Blaine Cook on Scalability

Niall Kennedy - Writing Flash for search engines

Dare Obasanjo - What You Can Learn from the Facebook Redesign

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz -[Agile] Software Development: By the People, For the People*

Ayende Rahien -Impedance Mismatch and System Evolution

Haacked -Unit Test Boundaries

Harry Pierson -News of F# and Ruby, Python for the CLR from the microsoft camp

J.D. Meier -Agile Guidance

Jeff Atwood -Coding Without Comments

Via Serverside.com Nagarjun Kandukuru - ThoughtWorks releases Cruise, Continuous Integration System

NickMalik - On Clarifying the Use Case

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 256

Ted Neward - Comments on Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last

Todd Hoff -Google’s Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective

Other interesting articles

Dustin Wax -How to Ask for (and Get) a Raise

Via Channel9 a video of Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

WSDAC#12 - On Scalability

Stefan Tilkov - Resurrecting libxml-ruby, On talking intelligently about scaling different technologies
All about interop -What is Scalability? Do I have Extreme Requirements?

Simon Brown - Practicality vs Following the specification to the T

Ayende Rahien -Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Locking

Charles - John Sheehan: Inside Application Virtualization

Gina Trapani -How to Hack a Technical Job Interview [Weekend Watching]

Harry Pierson -Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170, IronPython Post 2.0 Roadmap

Jeff Atwood -Web Development as Tag Soup - mixing code and tags using templates, Dealing With Bad Apples

Nicholas Allen -XQuery 1.1 Draft

NickMalik -Using Business Process Models as the source for software requirements

Matthew Podwysocki -Recursing into List Processing, Learning Erlang - Erlang Gaining Momentum

Scott Hanselman -Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser’s Search Box

Simon Guest -Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) 2008

Stu Charleton -The freedom to use crap - on open, open source and open source based platforms

Todd Hoff -The Mother of All Database Normalization Debates on Coding Horror

WSDAC#10 - VB Futures

Simon Brown asks Who should own the non-functional tests?

From Microsoft TechEd  -Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future

Greg - Continues the series on scrm Scrum Sprint 1 - Week 3 - Reevaluating “Done”

Ryan Carson - How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000

Kirk Evans - Joe DeCarlo on The Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Michael Arrington - Links to two overview videos are below, including an interview with Digg Lead Scientist Anton Kast. Digg Recommendation Engine

NickMalik - Preventing Ownerless Activities — the “Blame the Computer” process modeling antipattern - part 2

Scott Hanselman - In the Back to Basics series,  This is not the object you’re looking…wait, oh, it is the object

Steve Jones - Why people matter more in architecture than technology
Todd Hoff - Five Ways to Stop Framework Fixation from Crashing Your Scaling Strategy

Interesting software development and architecture links

Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for June 30, 2008

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #10 - July 1, 2008

WSDAC#9 - Command line DSL the ultimate!

Martin Fowler -Agile Versus Lean

Microsoft Research -Tool: Pex - Program EXploration a white-box test generation tool
Greg Duncan - Scrum Sprint 1, Week 2 in the scrum series, Free - Foundations of Programming eBook
Jeff Atwood - Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems
Nick Malik -Phillippe Krutchen ‘reinterpretation’ the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects,  Blame the Computer: A Business Process Modeling Anti-pattern
Software Engieering Radio -Episode 102: Relational Databases
Ted Neward - The ultimate thin client

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa

WSDAC#8 - MVP MVC and everything in-between

Stefan Tilkov Fan, Niclas Nilsson on Scala and Erlang, Ruby: DSL for Writing Programs

Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 29 - Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus

Martin Fowler on Caching and segmentation, Refactoring HTML is published

Software Engineering Radio - Episode 101: Andreas Zeller on Debugging

Nick Malik asks Common vocabulary: Blessing or Curse?, The Usefulness of the Use Case?

Jeff Atwood on The Ultimate Code Kata, Don’t Go Dark

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Code Readability: Documentation vs. Refactoring

Dare Obasanjo on Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation: Testing the Scalability of New Features on your Web Site, Functional Programming in C# 3.0: How Map/Reduce/Filter can Rock your World

Steve Yegge - Done, and Gets Things Smart

Simon Guest on  Open Source and Interoperability, ArCast.TV - Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft

Via Chris Alcock

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) at a Glance - Sidar Ok explores the Managed Extensibility Framework CTP, working through the initial stages of getting things working as intended.

Immutability and Concurrency – Part II – A Review of F#’s Immutable Data Structures - Rob Pickering looks at the support in F# for working with Immutable data in part two of his series on Immutability and concurrency.

Phil Haack Everything You Wanted To Know About MVC and MVP But Were Afraid To Ask

Technorati tags: softwaredevelopment, soa, architecture