Monday, April 28, 2008

AquaLogic® BPM

AquaLogic® BPM seems to be way more advanced workflow engine than Microsoft WF. In particular it is designed to work for human workflow, which Microsoft WF is not.

Typemock

If you have $450 per developer to spare consider buying TypeMock Isolator. It is especially useful when writing unit tests for a legacy system that is not well-designed. It is interesting to see how you can make sense of the spaghetti code by mocking everything: public methods, private methods, etc. Of course before that you should get ReSharper for much cheaper...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

How to avoid session expiration

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001100.html

Create a background JavaScript process in the browser that sends regular heartbeats to the server. Regenerate a new cookie with timed expiration, say, every 5 or 10 minutes.

Monday, April 14, 2008

VS2008

How is Visual Studio 2008 improving developer's productivity if it is twice slower than Visual Studio 2005?

Monday, April 07, 2008

VS2008 web projects

I was so happy when in VS2005 the web projects did not require any virtual directory to be set up. This allowed me to be working on multiple branches of the same web applications. In VS2008 we are back to the old stuff of requiring that the physical directory should match the virtual directory specified in the project file. WHY? This thing does not make any sense to me!

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Web Client Software Factory

http://www.codeplex.com/websf

I have an impression that this was called something like "Composite application block" or something, because I tried it a year ago. At that time it impressed me with complexity. Did not quite fit into what Microsoft is trying to sell as "Software Factories". We'll see if some of the shortcomings are addressed in this incarnation.