September, 2010

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Tutorial: Implementing Facebook's BigPipe Using ASP.Net MVC - Part 1

Jos

Parts of the tutorial. Introduction to BigPipe. How ASP.Net MVC fits in the model. Registering and generating pagelets. Browser implementation of BigPipe. Loading pagelets and their resources effectively. Check out the demo Visual Studio solution. Through a series of posts I will explain how we can implement BigPipe Facebook using ASP.Net MVC. In this first post I will describe what BigPipe is and sketch how we can make a similar implementation using ASP.Net MVC.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Around the World in 28 Days. By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). On Monday I will leave Seattle for 4 weeks of meeting existing and future customers of the Amazon Web Services. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better.

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Effective Concurrency: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex

Sutter's Mill

This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex,” is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Let’s say that your program has a shared log file object. The log file is likely to be a popular object; lots of different threads must be able to write to the file; and to avoid corruption, we need to ensure that only one thread may be writing to the file at any given time.

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Restructuring IT: Guiding Principles

The Agile Manager

This is a continuation of a series I left off in December 2009 on Restructuring IT. This post presents a few guiding principles to understand before undertaking a restructuring exercise. First, don't fool yourself about your ambitions. Come to grips with what you think you want to be: a demonstrably world-class organization, or just less bad at what you do.

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Intuition and Intimacy in Design

Tim Kadlec

In an old, but still relevant, article from Wired , Brian Eno talks about the value of designing with limited options: Designers struggle endlessly with a problem that is almost nonexistent for users: “How do we pack the maximum number of options into the minimum space and price?” In my experience, the instruments and tools that endure (because they are loved by their users) have limited options.

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Tutorial: Implementing Facebook's BigPipe Using ASP.Net MVC - Part 1

Jos

Parts of the tutorial Introduction to BigPipe How ASP.Net MVC fits in the model. Registering and generating pagelets Browser implementation of BigPipe. Loading pagelets and their resources effectively Check out the demo Visual Studio solution Through a series of posts I will explain how we can implement BigPipe Facebook using ASP.Net MVC. In this first post I will describe what BigPipe is and sketch how we can make a similar implementation using ASP.Net MVC.

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Reboot - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Reboot. By Werner Vogels on 29 September 2010 07:50 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Like many folks who started down the path of using real-time micro-blogging services (read: twitter ) the convenience of those platforms has made that sharing happens there instead of on the blogs we (used to) keep.

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Teach A Man To Fish

Tim Kadlec

Twitter is abuzz (and not in a good way) over an article that was posted yesterday at econsultancy.com on HTML5. The issue is that the article is passing around inaccurate information about what HTML5 actually is. Like this little tidbit: Those cool bouncing Google homepage balls everyone was talking about last week were an example of HTML5, but if you want to see an example of what the format can really do, take a look at this.