Recently I have seen too many customers writing their own transaction, thread pooling, role based AuthZ…code when they should have just used COM+ to host their business components. Just because they are using managed code and they can do database transactions...

Upon some feedback about neglecting to mention Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon I will admit I have read it twice and listened to the abridged tape once. I do not recommend listening to the audio until you have read the book as it abridges some of the...

What a fitting book Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash ( http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=fm6qWx0ABO&isbn=0553380958&itm=6 ) is for those that grew up in the 80s slinging code on TRS-80s, TI-99 4As, Commodore 64...