Monthly Archive
Browsing all posts from April, 2009.
October 28th, 2008
If we push the idea further that technology is the least important aspect of your next startup, then we can extend further to consider that “social networking”, the phenomenon that it is, is misinterpreted to mean a subset of web application features that have become standard and required in your projects.
While it might be obvious to most, we can start by making a distinction between three terms that more or less overlap in every conversation about building a modern web application where there is a entrepreneurial and social spirit behind the scenes.
Web 2.0
The concept of Web 2.0 (October 2004…
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October 25th, 2008
1. You must run it successfully with a handful of people, possibly just one
One myth about startups is that they take a lot of people to create. The opposite is closer to the truth. You need a small number of talented people to keep the noise down, to avoid dilution, and to solve the hard problem of making something simple.
On the web you need someone with peerless graphic design sensitivities, one great developer, and possibly someone leading you and the idea. This can be three people, two people that can finish each other’s sentences, or one uncommon individual with…
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October 9th, 2008
Our final task is to facilitate the use of our services layer within the Silverlight client sitting in the browser. In Visual Studio we can add ‘Service References’ in Silverlight like we add any other application dependency. When we do, Visual Studio will auto-generate the ‘ServiceReferences.ClientConfig’ file which contains information specific to our services and bindings. Make sure you check this file prior to deploying to ensure that it was generated using a Silverlight-compatible binding (basicHttpBinding is the only choice today) and that you have appropriate size limits and security in place for your needs.
Use Visual Studio to add a…
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October 6th, 2008
Last time we discussed the concept of a single-operation WCF service contract that provided a message base that we could employ to send one or many application-specific requests to the server and back to the client through a generic implementation. What we didn’t consider was how our application could use something like a GetCustomerInfoRequest message once it is received; after all, we haven’t written code to do any “work” with this message.
To implement message handling, we’ll define an interface that provides the groundwork for our message handling. This basic interface hints at a message lifecycle with before, during, and after…
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