I’ve recently been doing a lot more reading and wanted to recommend two excellent books. First is Release It!, put simply I think every developer should read it as it’s full of good patterns/advice/anti-patterns related to ensuring your software behaves … Continue reading
I’ve just gotten through reading the SOA Manifesto and reactions from (among others) Jim Webber and Stefan Tilkov and I can’t help feeling the whole thing is a missed opportunity. In particular you’ll notice is that the manifesto doesn’t deal … Continue reading
I’ve just finished reading the rough cut of RESTful Web Services Cookbook by Subbu Allamaraju and Mike Amundsen and thought I’d write a very quick review. Ultimately the book fills a gap in the market by providing practical advice on … Continue reading
I’m on a project that was using WCF and we’ve managed to make the transition to using REST (well, to be honest so far its just POX). REST is a joy and I really find it such a pleasant experience … Continue reading
Jan has already posted about it but we have a new E-VAN blog which includes links to the recording of the excellent presentation Alan Dean gave on REST and a link to the next one that Ian Robinson and Jim … Continue reading
First off if you didn’t watch Udi Dahan talk on the SOA then you missed a treat, a real pro speaking on a topic that he and a very few others in the .NET space are way ahead of the … Continue reading
I’ll cut straight to the chase, I definitely recommend SOA Patterns to anyone interested in SOA. Even though its currently only available in MEAP, and is a bit rough and ready, and isn’t complete, it’s still great stuff and well … Continue reading
Udi Dahan has been kind enough to agree to do the next Europe VAN and suggested that we all put forward our questions for him to answer. Its a great chance to ask him about DDD/SOA/CQS/messaging/NServiceBus, or any other topic, … Continue reading
Since we are using REST on top of WCF on my current project I was glad to see that this book had been written as I was hoping it would answer some questions I had. However my first issue with … Continue reading
Just to remind people that Jan has put the videos for the first two E-VAN presentations online: http://www.vimeo.com/user1286822 Mark Nijhof’s excellent presentation on FubuMVC will be up as soon as its available and we’ll announce the next presentation as soon … Continue reading
