Monthly Archives: April 2011

Efficient transactional processing

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Ayende had a post on how to handle race conditions and unbounded result sets, describing a problem where you needed to perform transactional work against a set of entities. A bad solution would be: var subscriptions = session.Query<Subscription>().Where(s=>s.NextCharge < DateTime.Now); … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | 12 Comments

Experiences with REST

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Every system I’ve ever integrated with that refers to itself as “RESTful” is not REST. It’s RPC over HTTP. Every system I’ve ever built that I called “RESTful” is not REST. It’s RPC over HTTP. One of those dawning, sad … Continue reading →

Posted in REST | 13 Comments

Drawing boundaries

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

For the last nine months, I’ve primarily worked on an integration systems project, where my “User Interface” are things like flat files deposited on various SFTP servers, calls to web services, “RESTful” web services and so on. If there’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain-Driven Design | 6 Comments

Distributed Podcast episode live

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Check it out on the Distributed Podcast site here. We cover quite a wide variety of topics, from DTC, testing NServiceBus, migrating legacy systems and more. Thanks to the two Jonathans, Andreas and Rinat for inviting me on, and to … Continue reading →

Posted in NServiceBus | 1 Comment

Gawker sites breaking the web

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Another baffling feature of the new Gawker sites re-design is that it appears that they’ve broken the browser’s Back button. Starting at http://gizmodo.com, I’ll click a link for an article: That brings up the Web 3.0 Frames magic and replaces … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant | 13 Comments

Not an April Fool’s post

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Today I plan on writing a stored procedure. Not because I’m being forced to, but because the problem, as far as I can determine, requires a set-based solution. It’s a once-a-month process, doing bulk import, update and export of up … Continue reading →

Posted in Design | 6 Comments