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Write your own web server in less than 40 lines
I've recently been toying with the System.Net.Sockets namespace... and this is how easy it is to write your own web server: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.IO; using System.Net.Sockets;...
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 5
1. John De Vos, David Hill & Ajoy Krishnamoorthy - P&P Looking ahead : These guys are the P&P architects and they wanted to know how we felt about the current set of Enterprise Library tools. They also did a bit of horn blowing by providing...
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 4
1. Keynote - David Treadwell: This talk focused on cloud computing and David gave a demonsration of the how a "mesh" application would work. 2. David Hill & Kyle Huntley - Composition and presentation patterns : What a brilliant talk! David...
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 3
1. Keynote - Pat Helland : Pat gave a brilliant speech on the energy consumption of data centers. He gave us insight into the setup of Microsofts data centers and the strategies Microsoft use to conserve energy and keep costs low. This was an unexpected...
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 2
1. Keynote - Kent Beck : - This guy is the father of XP programming. The talk he gave was about the philosopy behind problem solving, and a few key techniques we can use to tackle problems. They were. a) Have the guts to make the LEAP sometimes. b) Somtimes...
Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 1
1. Keynot Jeff Teper - This guy did an overview of sharepoint and the future of the product. 2. Functional programming - Erik Meijer : I've been looking forward to this talk for a while. Erik M. is one of the architects that works with Anders H. Erik...
Patterns & Practices Summit 2008
I will be attending the Patterns and Practices summit 2008, which starts next week. A list of speakers http://www.pnpsummit.com/west2008/west2008.aspx General topics http://www.pnpsummit.com/West2008/west2008sessions.aspx I attended the 2005 patterns...
SubSonic vs Nettiers
I've recently been working extensively with 2 ORMS. Subsonic and Nettiers. Both really good ORMS. My favourite though without a doubt is Subsonic written and designed by Rob Connery who just coincidentally now works for the ASP.NET team at Microsoft...
Log4PostSharp : How to set it up
After an hour of banging my head against the wall and much dissapointment at the amount of documentation out there on such a usefull tool as Log4PostSharp I've decided that it would be a good idea to get off my lazy .... and write a short blog post...
Generic type usage-constraints
Since the release of the .Net Framework 2.0 the amount of code I've had to write when building utility functions has diminished greatly. There is only one thing I enjoy more than writing code, and that is deleting code. :) I get to do that a lot nowadays...