It took a while, but my “ CRUD, Only When You Can Afford It ” article has finally been published. I’ve been working with Jon Tobey on my articles to make them more readable and more consistent. I can tell you, when he returned my first draft (the blog I wrote earlier) there were so many questions in...

Razorbills What and How of Service Consumption Why did the razorbill raise her bill? Because the sea urchin would see her chin! Less than five years ago, I read a Microsoft internal memo called “ Sea Urchins ”. This paper pushed for using XML as the communication mechanism between services. Since the...

So, I did a little more work on it and I hope I addressed the feedback in it. I don't think I'll be providing code anywhere soon though. I hope that the project that David Hill and I are doing together with msdn “Patterns and Practices”, we'll get to good examples for offlining and offline...

Maarten’s theorem Not knowing your dependencies is the tightest form of coupling Maarten’s corollary Reducing your dependencies is important; however, knowing and understanding your dependencies is far more important.

After my article on Dealing with Concurrency: Designing Interaction Between Services and Their Agents (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/concurev4M.asp) and my talks at the TechEd in Amsterdam , I thought I needed to express my thoughts on CRUD. Here's my thinking in progress ... ...