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September 2004 - Posts

Why deny COM+?
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 Read More...
Dungeon Master
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 Read More...
A Snow Crash
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/Vic Read More...
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