FASTforward Blog – I’ve been having quite a series of discussions over at the ZDNet site (here and here and here) on the growing popularity of Web Oriented Architecture, versus the more dour image of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Everyone, even the most technophobic, seems to get what WOA means and how it works. SOA… well, even the best [...] read more

Jason’s ASP.NET Blog – In IIS7, there are two modes for ASP.NET application pools: classic mode (only mode available for IIS6) and integrated mode. Integrated Mode offers quite a bit with IIS7 and is the recommended mode for application pools (more details at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/244/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-iis7-integrated-pipeline/). One of the changes is that the Integrated mode does not have access to the HttpContext during the Application_Start method in the global.asax. It also [...] read more

iface thoughts – Desktop development, the game of the bygone era, and the Web, which is the default platform for new applications nowadays, differ in a lot of ways. To an extent that they can be considered to be opposites of each other in many ways. Naturally, desktop development and Web development too differ from each other radically.
Web [...] read more