Living in the US, Canada, or even much of Europe you’d be excused for thinking the story about electric vehicles (EVs) is largely about passenger cars. Our media seems to promote this belief, publishing mostly stories about automakers and passenger cars. This enthusiasm is well placed, of course, as in 2022 Bloomberg NEF estimated the …
In a previous post, I wrote about making a simple web back using ServiceStack back end that could serve up information about upcoming events. We automatically got SOAP, JSON, CSV and other end points. In today’s post, we’re going to look at a technique to consume them. Want more on ServiceStack? ServiceStack 4 Cookbook contains … Continue reading
I’ve been working with the Service Stack framework recently. Service Stack is a great SOA framework for building REST (and RPC) based web services – lots of the great things about WCF are in there – but they fixed lots of the problems. The thing that initially attracted me to it, is that it does … Continue reading
A fellow Programmer asked: A lot of bad practices were being committed at the beginning of a project, and I recognized them and fought against all of them. Since I didn’t pick and choose my battles, my boss now assumes anything out of my mouth is an over complicated response, and spends a lot of … Continue reading
Make sure that the specification is broken down in to user stories. Estimate each user story individually. Give each user story a 1 day, 2 day, or 3 day estimate. If you think a story will take more than three days, break it in to smaller pieces. Even if you think it will take only … Continue reading
By leveraging the Windows Communications Foundation framework, you can create services over a number of different network protocols. This includes HTTP, HTTPS, MSMQ, and even TCP/IP sockets. In addition to these, it also support Named Pipes for connections between two processes on the same machine. IIS can host applications developed for WCF, even if they aren’t HTTP … Continue reading
Having known people in the sciences who attempted to transition to software, some of them at least had trouble focusing on making code maintainable and understanding what its like to work in a team setting. It might be worthwhile to focus on this, somehow. Its as though in this case, they were so interested in … Continue reading
Maybe you’re resistant to unit testing because you believe its not worth the effort to wrap your legacy code in tests. “It was all written before this test driven development nonsense was popular – it just wasn’t designed to be tested”. Perhaps this is compounded by the fact that most of your new features are … Continue reading
This blog entry is a repost of an answer I wrote at programmers.stackexchange.com. SignalR has a JavaScript API. SignalR helps build asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections. Scott Hanselman wrote a great blog post about this. If that’s not your speed, you may be looking for something more like WCF Support for jQuery, which seems to … Continue reading
This blog entry is a repost of an answer I wrote at programmers.stackexchange.com. The book “Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It” takes a novel approach for a technology book. Instead of reading an industry veterans opinions of what works and why*, it decides instead to review currently available computer science to analyze many popular … Continue reading
This blog entry is a repost of an answer I wrote at programmers.stackexchange.com. If I am building an application from scratch, should I start with the OO model or the ER model? You might want to try to observe the principle of delaying architectural decisions as long as possible. The thought goes, that you will know … Continue reading
Kyle Hodgson 