Given: One Windows Service, written in C#, using SQL Reporting Services via the SSRS web services. MyApp.Service waits for work requests to come in, and when it finds them it uses SSRS to generate some PDFs (among a bunch of other stuff). The Windows Service code is in one project, “myapp.service,” and the code that […]
Read MoreI’ve got myself a geek that works from home, mostly. Sometimes he gets (has) to get on an airplane and gets (has) to spend a week working in a different location, eating out and meeting new people. My geek doesn’t really look forward to these weeks. He’d much rather be at home, working away all […]
Read MoreThis one was just too funny to not write down. The epitome of a Brain Fart. There sure seem to be quote a few posts lately talking about the Software (Crafts-Man/Woman/person/whatever); I may have many many more years of Craft practicum to study up on before I can truly consider myself a Craftsman. However, it’s […]
Read MoreSo the time finally came, TIVO had to go. No worries, Tivo had a good run – 6 years. But the analog to digital conversion was not kind to Tivo. The digital converter box I got to be friends with Tivo, but it just never worked out between them. Plus, I was wanting more than […]
Read MoreWhile the Elegant Code Cast is alive and well and now hosted by other Elegant Coders, I have been producing a new show for Pluralsight. This show, the Pluralcast is available at http://cast.pluralsight.com. I will start posting show updates to ElegantCode as well as my Pluralcast blog, because I think the content is something ElegantCode […]
Read MoreAfter the Kaizenconf of 2008, I wrote down a couple of things I wanted to learn throughout 2009. Looking back at that list for the past year, I think I did fairly well. Retrospective of 2009 I learned more about integration patterns and ESB?s. I also learned about NServiceBus and I?m going to take this […]
Read MoreAfter listening to the keynote of Monospace 2009, I got somewhat intrigued by the possibilities of SUSE Studio. Miguel de Icaza talked about this in his presentation and because its not that easy to follow a demo through an mp3 recording, I wanted to try it on my own. SUSE Studio lets you create your […]
Read MoreJimmy Bogard has an excellent post called “Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types” which he uses the StructureMap IOC container to connect messages to handlers. This is something I have been using in my codebase to handle domain events, as well as a publish/subscribe mechanism for WCF message handling. I learned about this […]
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