April 2004 - Posts

• Time to start coding on 'my' provider

  Well no one has agreed with me that the current provider model is flawed and an anti-pattern when viewed through the eyes of a good SOA design, but that's not stopping me from charging forward. I've also been thinking about my intended design and static Read More... Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 3:30 PM by pmurphy | 1 Comments

• Yukon Included with March Whidbey Bits

  That's right. I was just stumbling around the DVD and lo and behold /wcu/sse contains SQL Server Express Edition. Did I find this first? The hickup here is that you can't install it on the same computer as VS.NET because they depend on different versions Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:48 AM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Interesting news from IBM & Provider Update.

  I saw this today on Rationals website. It's very, very interesting. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=48989 About the provider thing. I am about to start writing some code on it (hopefully), but here's what I'm thinking. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:29 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Provider Model II

  I'm on some private lists with Andy Smith of MetBuilders fame. Some discussion came up on those lists that spilled into the blogs. Andy posted this link in a email he sent to the list, so it's appropriate to respond here. First off let me say that the Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:28 AM by pmurphy | 2 Comments

• The Provider Model and ASP.NET

  I'm reading a lot of hype about 'The Provider Model' and I'd like to rant against it for a bit. I would argue that ‘Provider Model’ is really ‘Abstract Base Class’ and nothing new. Let's take a look at some refactorings. (If you Read More... Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:43 AM by pmurphy | 0 Comments