At some point during its lifetime a service might need to be enhanced or modified as a result of an external or an internal stimulus. The Service Refactoring design pattern addresses this issue in a manner so that the existing service consumers are not affected by the required change.
This chapter explains the basics of process management and also introduces the basic synchronization operations and wait functions that will be important throughout the rest of the book.
Sometimes Ruby code is too cool to run on just one computer at a time. In this interview with Hal Fulton, Mark Bates explains how he defines distributed programming, reasonable concerns about Ruby performance, and how to choose Ruby libraries.
In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey about his early life and formative experiences. In part 3, Humphrey discusses his work at Sylvania and teaching computer programming at Northeastern University -- in 1954.
IronRuby is Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby language on top of the DLR. Its main goal is to provide seamless interoperability between Ruby and the .NET Framework. Shay Friedman gives you your first taste of IronRuby.
This chapter is all about making your own objects as useful and versatile as possible. In many cases, this means implementing the standard interfaces that .NET provides or simply overriding base class methods.
There are many tools you can use to troubleshoot data failures. David Prowse focuses on the Windows Vista built-in Memory Diagnostic Tool for testing RAM, and the chkdsk and SFC commands for checking the hard drive.
In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey about his early life and formative experiences. In part 2, Humphrey talks about his stint in the Navy during World War II, the college years, his first job, and wrestling.
Scott Seely explains when developers need to create a new endpoint versus just adding data. This higher level, non-language specific article explains how to version REST services and when each choice makes sense.
In this chapter, learn how HTML can be used in the WordPress.com environment. This is useful whether you just want to do a few simple things with your blog postings and the Text widget, or if you want to go much further.
Concluding his series on the responsibilities of the Agile product manager, Dean Leffingwell explores the necessity for the product manager to work closely with the product owner to build the strongest possible product teams.
What's so great about C# 4.0? Troy Magennis looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources.