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Venn-like View of Software Quality Attributes
Two days ago I posted Non-Functional Requirements for the Software Architect in which I suggested that quality attributes or non-functional requirements could be categorized into a two by two grid,...
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The 4+1 Architectural View Model v2
You can find the well written brief on Phillippe Kruchten’s 4+1 architectural view model on Wikipedia along with a link to the original white paper published nearly 20 years ago. Kruchten worked for...
View ArticleRun Single Instance of Process Using Mutex
Recently I needed to assure that a process could not be started for a second time on the same machine. I had done this before with a mutex but rather than rummaging through old code on my own personal...
View ArticlePriority Queue with Heap Algorithms in C#
Continuing with my C# Algorithms series, I’ve just completed a rather lengthy effort to implement and test min and max heap algorithms, including heap sort, along with a priority queue, something not...
View ArticleHow to Rescue Distressed Projects and Teams
If you have worked in the software development world long enough, it has likely been your privilege (tongue firmly in cheek) to work on a project and with a team that has been taken to or even driven...
View ArticleServiceWire Wiki Code Samples
I finally got around to fixing the code samples on the ServiceWire wiki on GitHub. If you don’t know what ServiceWire is, please check it out and give it a try—download the NuGet package today. Be sure...
View ArticlePriorityQueue in C# Using Heap
Today I had occasion to use in a work project the PriorityQueue<T> and Heap code that I had written and blogged about recently. In doing so, I discovered a couple of bugs and fixed them and added...
View ArticleBroadcast Added to ServiceMq
I have added a Broadcast method to distribute in guaranteed order a single message to multiple destinations. If one of those destinations is down, message delivery will resume when it becomes available...
View ArticleServiceWire and ServiceMq Improvements
Over the past several days, I’ve been working on a day-job project that may be using ServiceMq which uses ServiceWire under the covers. I say “may” because it depends on whether the prototype proves to...
View ArticleServiceMock a New ServiceWire Based Project
I know. There are some really great mocking libraries. The one I’ve used the most is Moq 4. While I’ve not been a regular user of mock libraries. I am fascinated with their usefulness and I’ve recently...
View ArticleAgile and Architecture
One of the most misunderstood and misrepresented documents in the history of software development is the Agile Manifesto. This may be due to many of its readers overlooking the phrase “there is value...
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ServiceMq Hits 10,000 Downloads
I am pleased to see this milestone of 10,000 downloads in the short history of ServiceMq and its underlying communication library ServiceWire, a faster and simpler alternative to WCF .NET to .NET RPC....
View ArticleVery Large Pseudo Random Number Generator in C#
Thanks to a friend of mine, over the past few weeks the idea of zero knowledge authentication, which has been around for a long time but to which I’d never paid any attention, has been percolating in...
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Git and PowerShell Environment Setup Notes
As a visually oriented developer, I remain command-line challenged. And yet there are some things that seem to be more productive in command-line form, and git seems to be one of them. I’ve not tried...
View ArticleBlog Vacation is Over
It's been seven months and two job changes and crazy busy with family, work and life. Vacation is over.List of things to blog about.Microsoft's Graph EngineRolling your own OAuth with refresh with...
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Microsoft Graph Engine
This tweet from Scott Hanselman caught my eye because I spent nearly all of 2014 working on a graph solution for my employer that had it’s genesis in my study of Neo4J but primarily in my reading of...
View ArticleMongoDB C# Driver 2.0 AsQueryable Alternative
I’m a fan of LINQ and the IQueryable<T> interface power to compose dynamic queries based on input parameters. So when I needed to compose just such a query in a repository for a MongoDB...
View ArticleHiberfile.sys Removal Note to Self
A very large portion of my system drive, a 250GB SSD, seemed to be gobbled up with my fresh Windows 8.1 install and after install all my tools, I was fast running out of disk space on the C: drive. A...
View ArticleA Software Development Allegory
Farmer Brown has a tractor. Farmer Jones has a tractor. Both tractors break down every Monday. Farmer Brown spends every Monday afternoon fixing his tractor and then gets a good five days of work in...
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Upgrade to Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core Tooling
Yesterday I installed the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and began playing with a new ASP.NET Core API project. But the NuGet packages needed to be updated and when I tried to update them, they could not...
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