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December 2006 - Posts

Architecture of EBay

"15,000 application servers, all J2EE. About 100 groups of functionality aka "apps". Notion of a "pool": "all the machines that deal with selling"... Well over 200 databases.Everything is planned with the question "what if load increases by 10x". Read More
posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:32 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Architecture Astronaut Redux

"The Corporate Framework Guru:Keep Your Filthy Problem Domains Away From Me"We have a well-established seniority structure here. The new programmers work on customer-facing code: printed output, reports, user-interfaces. The intermediate programmers Read More
posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:57 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Technology Blindside - Dave Winer discovers JSON

"I've been hearing, off in the distance, about something called JSON, that proposes to solve a problem that was neatly solved by XML-RPC in 1998, the encoding of arrays and structs in a format that could easily be processed by all programming languages. Read More
posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:32 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Unconference Ideas for SKDD2 session

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posted Friday, December 15, 2006 9:56 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

VRM Part Deux

"Yes, except I also think it's important not to understand VRM (Vendor Relationship Management — the reciprocal of CRM, or Customer Relationship Management) as the reciprocal of advertising. Or the opposite of advertising. Or even the opposite of Read More
posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:52 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

VSTS Roadmap

This is the roadmap for Visual Studio Team Server.I got my first impression of VSTS today and I think it's an extremely closed and limited system compared to the 2K+ price for the version of VS 2005 and the 500 dollars each for CAL license.But we will Read More
posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:10 AM by dodyg | 0 Comments

LINQ for XSD Alpha

Go really really cutting edge. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:06 AM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Watch this space - VRM

"That something would be VRM — Vendor Relationship Management. This is something more, and different, than an way of managing one's identities. VRM should equip the customer to actually relate to vendors, and not just to buy stuff from them. In order Read More
posted Monday, December 04, 2006 2:26 AM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Market is conversations

"A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter Read More
posted Monday, December 04, 2006 1:31 AM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Custom Expression Builders

"One of the hidden gems in ASP.NET 2.0 is the new expression syntax. For example, to display the value of a setting in the AppSettings section of your web.config, you can do this: <asp:Label Text="<%$ AppSettings:AnotherSetting %>" ID="setting" Read More
posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:10 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments
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GUUI

Guuui.net is a site dedicated to solving the issue of interaction design. Read More
posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:08 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments

Path less travelled

We had a meeting yesterday about SKDD 2 and had to make a decision whether to follow the same pattern of SKDD2 but just better and bigger or going to another path trying new format.Following the same pattern has the benefit of comfort, that we have done Read More
posted Friday, December 01, 2006 8:37 PM by dodyg | 0 Comments