David Strommer

Migrating Winforms to WPF (links to Info)

David Strommer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:08:58 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2009/09/30/migrating-winforms-to-wpf-links-to-info.aspx

Design debt economics

dstrommer — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:58:00 GMT

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/edge/09/jun09/designdebteconomics/index.html

A good post on technical debt - " Design debt economics: A vocabulary for describing the causes, costs, and cures for software maintainability problems"

The author recommends the book - Clean Code; A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. (http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882)

Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education » EA CMM Revisited and Reviewed

dstrommer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:23:17 GMT

Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education » EA CMM Revisited and Reviewed

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Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage

dstrommer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:50:18 GMT

Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage

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Gianpaolo's blog : Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!

dstrommer — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:38:09 GMT

Gianpaolo's blog : Nephologist: The Hottest Job in the Software Industry!

I want to be a Nephologist Architect.

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Oslo and OMG by Charles Young

dstrommer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:45:59 GMT

http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/01/05/128369.aspx

Nice post by Charles Young.

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Rozlog’s top 10 software development predictions for 2009 and Amiga

dstrommer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:53:23 GMT

I owned an Amiga 500 and loved it. It was a great computer and unfortunate Commodore wasn’t able to compete with IBM-PC or Apple. During the mid-80’s, Amiga was far ahead of its competitors.

While I don’t agree with all of Rozlog’s predictions. Prediction #7 - specialized or task oriented chips becomes standard on motherboards reminds me of the Amiga architecture. In addition to a main processor, the Amiga had three specialized chips to handle graphics (Denise), sound (Paula) and a chipset for routine operations (Agnus) - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Original_chipset).

Rozlog’s Top 10 Software Development predictions for 2009

“7. Specialized chips (task oriented) will become standard on mother boards in an effort to move green. We are starting to see this trend with Graphics chips, where the manufacturer will put a light-weight graphics chip on the mother board and for normal use (email, browsing the web, etc) the on board graphics chip will be utilized. Then when the user wants to use PhotoShop or play the latest Game on the market, the real graphics boards kick in and do the work. Thus, when in general use the machine takes up much fewer resources and then on-demand can increase the resource consumption to fit the task at hand. This approach will be applied to other various other areas of the PC.”

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Cloud Computing in plain English

dstrommer — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:59:24 GMT

http://www.rpath.com/corp/

Great explanation of Cloud Computing by RPath.

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Uncanny Valley: User Interface anti-pattern

dstrommer — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:43:59 GMT

http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/davidstrommer/archive/2006/11/25/_2200_bukimi-no-tani_2200_-or-_2200_uncanny-valley_2200_.aspx

A couple of years ago, I blogged about an phenomenon called Bukimi no tani or Uncanny Valley. Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror posted a blog expanding on Bill Higgins description of a User Interface anti-pattern. The anti-pattern is where users experience Uncanny Valley expecting a web application and instead are given a desktop application.

“A web app that apes the conventions of a desktop application is attempting to cross the uncanny valley of user interface design. This is a bad idea for all the same reasons; the tiny flaws and imperfections of the simulation will be grossly magnified for users.”

Coding Horror: Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

The Uncanny Valley of user interface design

All too often, I’ve seen corporate line of business applications fail to cross the uncanny valley by simulating a desktop application using JavaScript, Async requests and HTML. Yes, I agree that AJAX frameworks have made things easier but they’ve not come close to jumping the uncanny valley.

If you plan to create a rich desktop application use Adobe Flex, SilverLight, or Smart Client Architecture.

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WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ

dstrommer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:38:08 GMT

Interesting book coming out from one of my favorite publishers – PACKT Publishing.

WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ

Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform in this hands-on guide

Master WCF and LINQ concepts by completing practical examples and apply them to your real-world assignments
First book to combine WCF and LINQ in a multi-tier real-world WCF service
Ideal for beginners who want to build scalable, powerful, easy-to-maintain WCF services
Rich with example code, clear explanations, interesting examples, and practical advice – a truly hands-on book for C++ and C# developers

Author’s Bio - http://www.packtpub.com/author_view_profile/id/272

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