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Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:51 PM

End to end demo of LitwareHR on SSDS

Here's an end-to-end demo of LitwareHR using SSDS. The total demo lasts about 11 min and you will see: Tenant Provisioning and customization (takes the first 5 min approximately). I show the initial tenant provisioning (creation of a new tenant in LitwareHR,
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:31 PM

LitwareHR on SSDS - Part V - Searching across Containers

In SQL Server Data Services, the scope of a query is bound to a Container , but in LitwareHR we had a requirement of searching entities across multiple tenants, and because in our implementation each tenant gets its own Container, we had to create a way
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:43 PM

LitwareHR on SSDS - Part IV - Data access enhancements 2: developing offline

SQL Server Data Service is well...an online service. That means that you have to be connected to the network 100% of the time if you are using it. What if you are not connected? well...you know the whole story. Our goal while developing LitwareHR was
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Monday, March 24, 2008 4:50 PM

LitwareHR on SSDS - Part III - Data access enhancements 1: caching

In most applications, the distance (in terms of bandwidth and latency) between the store (the database) and the application logic (like the web servers and web services) is usually very small. The connectivity between these two components is usually very
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:05 AM

LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - The data access layer

The heart of LitwareHR implementation on SSDS is in it's data access layer of course. In fact, we created two different, but functionally equivalent implementations: one runs against SQL (LitwareHR's original implementation) and a second stack that runs
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:32 PM

SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR

Today, in his keynote, Ray Ozzie announced a new "cloud service" available from Microsoft: SQL Server Data Services (code name: Stika). It's a good that he announced it, because now I'm out of quarantine and I can talk about it :-). For the last 2 months
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:03 PM

Northwind Hosting Concept Demo

For the last months our team has invested a lot of time exploring and researching the relationship between ISVs and Hosters. I shared some of the early thoughts and findings in a series of posts in this blog: Part I - The Scenario Part II - On-Boarding
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:52 PM

Integration with Silverlight Streaming in LitwareHR

One feature demonstrated in LitwareHR is the ability to augment LitwareHR's capabilities by leveraging a "building block" service provided by a 3rd party. In our fictitious scenario the ISV (Litware), neither wants to become an expert on media
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Friday, December 14, 2007 10:44 AM

LitwareHR v2.0 and the Database Performance Guide

Those of you who follow our community web site ( www.codeplex.com/litwarehr ) must have noticed that we released two new pieces of guidance: LitwareHR V2.0 - an enhanced version of LitwareHR Multitenant Database Performance Guide How to get the docs and
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:12 PM

LitwareHR - Smart Client - Architecture Overview - Part II - Use of LitwareHR On-Line Services

One of the reasons building LitwareHR-SC was fairly easy to do, was because of the Non-Functional On-Line Services. By non-functional services, I mainly mean the metadata API exposed by LitwareHR that allows anybody to introspect into the customized details
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Monday, July 30, 2007 11:01 AM

LitwareHR-Smart Client - Architecture Overview - Part I

The implementation of LitwareHR-SC is fairly straight forward. Especially if you are familiar with CAB and SC-SF . When you open LitwareHR-SC solution you will see a number of projects: Infrastructure.Interface (to share common definitions like command
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Friday, July 27, 2007 4:03 PM

Test Post - LitwareHR Smart Client - End to end demo

function CreateSilverlight(){ Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({ source: "streaming:/5721/livewriterapp0",parentElement: Wrapper_livewriterapp0}); } I'm still working on the audio, but I wanted to share the video at least of an end-to-end demo of
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Friday, July 27, 2007 2:11 PM

LitwareHR Smart Client beta released!

Update: I just posted the release bits with minor things adjusted. The first release of LitwareHR Smart Client is available for download from CodePlex here . We are calling it a "beta" because there are still a few things we are working on, but I believe
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:57 AM

Microsoft Silverlight Streaming - An example of a specialized Service Delivery Platform

During my presentation in the SaaS Summit in Dublin last week, I mentioned two examples of a "Service Delivery Platform" and their characteristics (especially around application compliance and its consequences and benefits). One was LitwareHR & Northwind
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Monday, July 02, 2007 7:31 PM

SaaS Summit 2007 - Dublin - Go raibh míle maith agat!

It was an honor to present last week at the SaaS Summit in Dublin, organized by Enterprise Ireland , an agency that promotes Ireland's industry. I was very impressed by the whole event and especially by Benjamin Mosse and Naomi McMahon from Enterprise
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