In part 3 of our series "Ten Questions - Filipino Developer Edition", I was able to talk to Melvin Dave Vivas, founder of PinoyJUG, developer, technopreneur and part-time fashion photojounalist(Heheh! I bet he wants me to include this on his intro :P).
Read more about this interview here.
My friend Marlon Ribunal who is a developer and an avid SQL Server blogger needs your help... Her mother who is in the Philippines got diagnose with Leukemia yesterday and he needs financial help to get her mother decent medical treatment. Below is his message posted on his blog:
God Bless You!
I am in need of financial help for my mother who has been diagnosed with Leukemia. She is in the Philippines right now. She is only 55 years old.
I am sending this email to people who, in one way or another, might be willing to help. Our primary need is Financial, but a sincere Prayer for the recovery of my mother is likewise important.
If you know groups of people or organizations who are doing Charitable works toward families in need of financial help, please send me information on how to contact them.
Few years ago (2002), I came here in America through my wife's petition. But all through out these years we've been struggling financially. My wife got laid off from her work because their company can no longer support their business and decided to close down. Our family's financial resources are not enough to put our mother under decent medication.
If you know anyone who can help us financially, please contact me immediately. My information is below.
Sincerely,
Marlon Ribunal
US Info:
Marlon Ribunal
(562) 989-5406 [ Home ]
(562) 786-2889 [Celphone ]
Philippines Info:
Mario Ribunal, Jr.
09215102848
Please help Marlon. Thanks and God Bless!
Just in case you are studying WCF.. You might want to check out the .NET StockTrader Sample Application.
The .NET StockTrader Sample Application is an end-to-end sample application illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0) and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative technologies within .NET and their relative performance.
The application offers full interoperability with J2EE and IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 sample application. As such, the application offers an excellent opportunity for developers to learn about .NET and building interoperable, service-oriented applications.
Read more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx
I've been diving into WCF lately and I have found this sample application as a great blueprint on how to develop applications using WCF & ASP.NET. The sample includes a smart client and an ASP.NET application that you can jump on and play that showcases as huge list of technologies and approaches when developing an SOA app via WCF and .NET
Below is a list of technologies that's demonstrated in this sample application:
- Service-oriented, n-tier design with ASP.NET and WCF
- Clean separation of UI, business services and DB access
- Design and tuning for performance
- Horizontally scalable via dynamic clustering
- Centralized configuration management of clustered service nodes
- .NET 3.5 with Windows Communication Foundation
- Interoperability with J2EE/WebSphere Trade 6.1
- Incorporates alternative designs for performance comparisons
- Loosely-coupled, message-oriented design with WCF and MSMQ
- Achieving assured message delivery with transactions
- Self-hosting WCF Services
- Custom WCF Behaviors
- Service host failure detection and automatic restarts
- .NET Enterprise Application Server Technologies
- ASP.NET 2.0
- ADO.NET 2.0
- .NET Transactions
- MSMQ 3.5 (Windows XP/Windows Server 2003)
- MSMQ 4.0 (Windows Vista/"Longhorn Server CTP")
- Transaction batching with WCF and MSMQ
Try and see for yourself ;) I bet you will enjoy it too!
Do you want to use LINQ but you are still stuck with .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0? Are you still waiting for your company to upgrade to VS 2008 to get a hold of LINQ? Then wait no more because the good guys who wrote the book C# 3.0 In A Nutshell have created a .NET library that implements all the standard LINQ operators so that you can enjoy the goodness of LINQ in .NET 2.0 and 3.0.
LINQBridge is a reimplementation of all the standard query operators in Framework 3.5's Enumerable class. It's designed to work with the C# 3.0 compiler, as used by Visual Studio 2008. LINQBridge comprises a "LINQ to Objects" API for running local queries. (It doesn't include an implementation of LINQ to SQL, nor LINQ to XML; a good compromise can be to force Framework 3.5 out to just the server machines, allowing LINQ to SQL to be used where it's needed most).
LINQBridge also includes Framework 3.5's generic Func and Action delegates, as well as ExtensionAttribute, allowing you to use C# 3.0's extension methods in Framework 2.0.
In fact LINQBridge lets you use nearly all of the features in C# 3.0 with Framework 2.0—including extension methods, lambda functions and query comprehensions. The only feature it does not support is compiling lambdas to expression trees (i.e., Expression<TDelegate>).
Awesome huh?! Get this goodie here: http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/linqbridge.html
I saw this post from Mahesh today and it taught me something that I know I'll put in good use in years to come...
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum , Philadelphia, United States March 22,2008)
Question: Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure?
Kalam: Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people worked together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal.
By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything worked fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan, had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India]. Prof. Dhawan, the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had worked very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization.
The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite -- and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today."
I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience….
Thanks Mahesh for sharing such a wonderful inspiration to us...
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