The Freak Parade - Latest Comments

Re: Evaluating Expressions at Runtime in .NET (C#)

adslviettelvietteladsl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:40:31 -0000

Thanks man, just what I was looking for. Worked like a charm Thanks so much…

Re: So you want to learn IronRuby? – Chapter 1 – “The Back Story”

nstults — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:21:10 -0000

Good point. That is a big benefit of Ruby in almost any usage scenario, but particularly one where you are doing what we were doing and adding scripting to your application. I don't know what metaprogramming mojo Python has, but Ruby makes it absolutely trivial to throw together a relatively elegant, expressive DSL.

Re: So you want to learn IronRuby? – Chapter 1 – “The Back Story”

Pat Gannon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:52 -0000

Another motivation for using IronRuby instead of IronPython, in addition to preferring jewels to snakes, is that it provided us the option to iteratively evolve our UI automation logic into an internal DSL, ostensibly speeding up the development of similar UI automation logic in the future, at least for that particular external application (although we never quite got to that point before the aforementioned client loss).

Re: Evaluating Expressions at Runtime in .NET (C#)

spikuenak — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:35 -0000

thanks a lot bos, but still i don't get it yet. :)

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

nstults — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:17:31 -0000

Dan, I'm glad you like it. However, I would be careful about skipping over a careful review of NServiceBus because of my descriptions here - this post is quite old, and NServiceBus is now maintained by a team, evolves rapidly, and has a very active community. Many of the shortcomings in this post have been overcome in recent versions of NSB. I'm not steering you away from SSB, I'm just cautioning that NSB also deserves your time in a thorough evaluation, because the very active development team and thriving community are huge assets that SSB simply does not possess.

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

danvanderboom — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:48 -0000

Great work, Nathan. I'm glad I found SimpleServiceBus before diving too deeply into nServiceBus. I want the fastest path to swapping out MSMQ for Windows Azure Queue Storage for cloud compute components, and SimpleServiceBus sounds easier to customize in this way. You've made a lot of design choices I would have made, so it's nice to know our styles are similar. I especially like the replaceable subsystems, message pipeline pattern, polymorphic message handling, lack of third-party dependencies, and I agree that requiring a reference to a service bus assembly in a message contracts assembly is silly.

Re: To (ASP.NET)MVC or not to MVC (or, ASP.NET MVC Hyperlink Acupuncture)

r4 games — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:14:52 -0000

Thanx for the valuable information. Can you please provide information over MVC? I was looking for it. I couldn't understand what I got from Internet. Please provide links to related topics if possible.

Re: ESB’s for the Microsoft (.NET) Platform

vludy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:35:34 -0000

Personally, I like ESB.NET.
- Ability to use all power of VS.NET - nice!
- WF Orchestrations - nice!
- WCF, HTTP, WSE3 !
- Service Federation, multiple service virtualization options
- Web based management console, logging - web view across instances!, resubmit etc. Lots of nice little things.
- Not the best looking Web UI interface, but very functional & snappy/responsive!
- Hot-update configuration
- Nice and fast once cache's kick in
- Very scalable/flexible

I love the thing!
As others have said, there's a little bit of a learning curve, but well worth the time investment.
- Has some nuances, but quickly get used to them.

Vlud.

Re: Simple ASP.NET MVC Ajax Proxy

chris — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:13:45 -0000

I did some research after reading your post. You are correct. The resource on the other end of the XSS call needs to be aware of the JSONP arrangement. It must "pad" the response with the call to the callback function. Rick Strahl has a good write up on the subject.

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/107136.aspx

Re: Simple ASP.NET MVC Ajax Proxy

nstults — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:04:08 -0000

My understanding of JSONP is that the script that wants to access remote data (which is expected to be javascript, I presume, whereas in this example the payload is a binary (png) stream) needs to be aware of the JSONP arrangement, whereas in this case the goal is allow a third party component (OpenLayers) interact with a map server on a different domain without having to write and specific client side or server side glue code to make it happen, we can just give the OpenLayers control a url to a WMS server and everything works as expected. Also with JSONP (as I understand it) the cross-domain resource needs to be aware of the protocol, whereas with a proxy, the cross-domain resource does not need any modification whatsoever. But I only briefly looked at JSONP at your mention, so I have a very light understanding of its capabilities.

Re: Simple ASP.NET MVC Ajax Proxy

chris patterson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:37:02 -0000

Nice.

When does a method like this need to be implemented versus taking advantage of something like JSONP?

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 1 - The Problem

Andrew O — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:31 -0000

You are a genius. Custom Headers for REST-ful WCF services!

Following your blog now.

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

CM — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:27:45 -0000

You totally missed mojoPortal

Re: Just add "Crazy" to your adjectives, and be done with it.

nstults — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:46:39 -0000

That's good news, I look forward to reading your posts. Congratulations on the kid cranking. People say things like "I cranked out a few kids" as if it was just another thing, when really we should be using language like "I plunged into a terrifying and beautiful portal of insanity in which human life emerged from nothing whatsoever and my perception of reality and depth of feeling were permanently and dramatically expanded beyond anything words can describe" Of course, that only works for the first kid, the cranking metaphor works well enough for subsequent children.

Re: Just add "Crazy" to your adjectives, and be done with it.

Mike Duncan — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:03:42 -0000

Thanks so much for the mention, super-flattering of you to say such kind things. Recently I've switched jobs and cranked out some kids, but as of today am back on the blogging bandwagon again!

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

nstults — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:11:25 -0000

I keep a loose eye on NSB to see if parts of what I've done can be reused as NSB components, but in reality while this project started out life as a fork, it really ended up being a nearly total rewrite. I'm not sure there is any nServiceBus code left, although the overall architecture remains vaguely the same, so a "merge" is certainly no longer possible. Even if it were it is extraordinarily unlikely Udi would accept my changes, our styles are just too different.

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

Colin Jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:30:51 -0000

Have you thought about merging your changes in with what Udi has done now 1.9 is out the door?

Re: About The Freak Parade

nstults — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:00:13 -0000

I'm flattered, but I'm having the time of my life where I'm at :) I've heard great things about Neuron though, I hope to take it for a spin someday.

Re: About The Freak Parade

Pete Klein — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:36:12 -0000

I bet you get asked this all the time, but are you interested in product development opportunities? I ask because we are always looking for strong developers like yourself who clearly have a deep understanding of SOA and the technologies under the SOA umbrella. I am naturally interested in your work on SimpleServiceBus, but would like to discuss more if you are so inclined.

Please let me know if you'd like to talk.

Thank you,

Pete Klein
pete.klein@neudesic.com

Re: Sense/Net 6.0 CMS/Enterprise Portal Beta 1 Released

cmsnewsman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:10:50 -0000

Sensenet is a pretty decent system, I've examined it a few times and found it quite good.

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 1 - The Problem

Graham — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:40:40 -0000

Your link at the bottom actually points to this same post, when it should point to http://www.thefreakparade.com/2008/09/flowing-i... :)

Re: Rule Based Access Control using an Expression Evaluator

Ashwani — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:32:40 -0000

Hi,
This is really a nice concept and we are currently using the similar approach with Zermatt Claims based Identity framework.
However; I see some some articles on .Net which says XACML is the best way of implementing Authorization; I don't have much experience in XACML; but could you provide some thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Ashwani

Re: Identity’s new Identity - Part 3, The Technology

Richers Blog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:09:24 -0000

nowadays technology is in everywhere, nice topics

Re: ESB’s for the Microsoft (.NET) Platform

sandra — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:12:24 -0000

ESB.NET

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

nstults — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:54:23 -0000

ASP.NET MVC :)