March 2007 - Posts

WS-Duck Typing
27 March 07 05:11 AM | andersnoras | 4 Comments   
Arjen Poutsma , who is the man behind Spring-WS has written about a more flexible way to do web services which is in-line with my earlier posts on evolving services and transparent web service proxies . The "lets pretend that we're doing RPC and not messaging" Read More...
This is disturbing
27 March 07 03:16 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Kathy Sierra , who is one of the authors of the Head First series has canceled her speaking engagements and withdrawn from blogging because of death and sexual abuse threats being posted to her blog and other blogs. Many of us have experienced that online Read More...
Taking CAPTCHA too far
26 March 07 05:46 PM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
When I introduced the Turing test to keep the spambots at bay, I chose a simple CAPTCHA verification to keep the user experience good. Earlier today I registered a new account at the Norwegian JUG forum and was met by this CAPTCHA verification - yellow Read More...
Guess What I'm Up To...
23 March 07 05:18 AM | andersnoras | 7 Comments   
I mentioned in a recent post that I would be doing more Java-related work in the days to come. Its been a while since last I did any serious Java-stuff, so I felt that I needed to play around a little to catch up with new features and idioms. I did a Read More...
An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie
22 March 07 05:57 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
David Starr has written an open letter to Scott Guthrie on Microsoft's relation to the .NET open source community. "When you rolling something from the community and into the .Net platform or tools, please add value above that of the original community Read More...
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I've Got a New Job!
20 March 07 07:39 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
This Monday I started to work as an enterprise architect for Storebrand , and my days as a consultant came to an end. The last ten years I have been in the consulting business - now I'm in the insurance and banking business. My reason for changing grounds Read More...
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CAPTCHA
17 March 07 11:15 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
After moving my blog I have managed to hide from the dreaded spambots . But as I suspected when I posted this , I would need to introduce some sort of CAPTCHA verification on this blog. I used Michael's simple CAPTCHA control which can be downloaded from Read More...
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Packing light
17 March 07 09:53 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
I recently got a new laptop and I made it an opportunity to be very conscious about which tools I would install rather than reimaging my laptop with the same configuration as I had before. This post gives you the what and whys of my new setup. This list Read More...
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Service Model Attribute Defaults
12 March 07 05:40 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Yesterday I did a spike to enable injection of WCF service model declarations. This is the type of adventure that is both painful and fun at the same time. One of the pains was how the various service model attributes such as ServiceContractAttribute Read More...
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What Else Is New?
12 March 07 06:50 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
The March 2007 CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" has been in the wild for some time, and we've all had our chance to play around with all the new C# 3.0 features. I know I'm a geek, but I found this kind of funny; the startup page still touts the "What's new Read More...
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Found: The day I tried to learn Spring and Hibernate
06 March 07 03:53 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
In the wake of the big discussion on designing for testability and average developers , I stumbled across this toon : /--[ The day I tried to learn Spring and Hibernate ]---------------------------\ | | | | | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | | ( ) | | ( Read More...
Balancing maintainability, readability and testability
04 March 07 08:09 PM | andersnoras | 10 Comments   
There is an interesting discussion going on between Eli Lopian , Roy Osherove and Oren Eini on whether or not you should design your code for testability. Eli ended one of his posts with a question about an example Oren gave in one of his posts . Oren’s Read More...
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NHibernate: Mapping a Class to Several Tables
01 March 07 11:41 PM | andersnoras | 8 Comments   
In wake of the recent discussion on Microsoft's Entity Framework , mapping types to more than one table was an issue that came up. One of the central features in EDM is that you can map a type to any number of tables. If you're creating a new application, Read More...
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