Was reading some more about AOP here on Natty Gur’s advice. I can’t say I’m all that impressed. This article mainly describes using AOP to optimize performance. But at the moment, the AOP tools carry extra performance overhead. I thought the point was to help write clearer code, and “untangle the […]
What web apps cannot do.
1) Provide rich, responsive UI’s
2) Support instant notification.
3) Execute complex domain logic on the client-side (Supporting #1)
4) Store data on the client-side, either on disk or in memory. (This would allow disconnected use.)
What web apps can do, that smart clients cannot.
1) Accessible over the public internet without client deployment.
2) Anyone […]
I’ve been reading a lot of blogs by programmers lately who have lukewarm feelings about exceptions. I don’t understand this. I have always loved exceptions because I don’t have do all of that error code checking. Not only is it a lot of work, it makes code hard to read, ugly and […]
One note upfront, this is all stuff I have been thinking about and doing for a while now, and this is the first time I have attempted to document. As a result I have a huge backlog of thoughts and ideas that are competing to get onto the screen. I will probably have […]
Went to the Stamford .Net users Group tonight, and got a lot little better idea of what’s coming up in the newer Microsoft technologies. I can’t say I’m that impressed, and the reason is this; nobody is talking about Business Events yet. Found some research from gartner on the topic though.
I’ve been doing a little reading on the Law of Demeter. This concept has a certain resonance with me, and I can imagine it being difficult to follow using pure oo methods. Indeed, it says on the page that the LoD is best followed using AOP tools. It also appears from this […]
*) Note - these are some preliminary notes, I am attempting to document an implementation of the Hexagonal Architecture as a design pattern.
When building a system using hexagonal architecture, you want to acheive symmetry of the various external subsystems (transformers). Lets suppose, as in most cases, that you have three external subsystems (UI, Network, […]
When thinking about the hexagonal architecture, it is important to make a clear distinction between the compile-time, and runtime views of the software. The layered architecture looks similar at compile time and runtime. In both cases, the ui depends upon the network, which depends on the business layer, which depends upon the data […]
My experience is that the Hexagonal approach is the best way to develop smart client applications, or applications that want to have a smart client interface. Typically, you choose a smart client for one or more of the following three reasons.
1) To acheive a more responsive, richer […]