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Posted on March 2nd, 2010 under Disconnected rants. Tags: database project, Visual Studio. Comments

ShareMicrosoft’s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“.
I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people seem [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2010 under Architecture, The Business of Software. Tags: .Net, Apple, C#, iPhone, Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Silverlight, Visual Studio. Comments

ShareWe have met the enemy, and it is Complexity.
About a year ago, the media was flooded with debate about financial institutions that were deemed “too big to fail” by industry analysts, financial experts, and government representatives.  A failure by one of these institutions, these experts told us, would have catastrophic effects on our economy, and [...]

Posted on November 6th, 2009 under Architecture, Disconnected rants. Tags: Architecture, complexity, Software Architecture, software design, too big to fail, Visual Studio. Comments

ShareAlmost a year and a half ago, I read something somewhere about a Microsoft Research project called Pex.  They were working on ways to supercharge unit testing within Visual Studio, but very little information was available at the time.  They had a site with an RSS feed, though, so I added them to my reader, [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 under .Net Development. Tags: Microsoft, Pex, Unit Testing, Visual Studio. Comments