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by admin via Brendan Enrick on 1/25/2012 10:00:00 AM
Now that CodeMash is over, it’s about time that I deposited information about my experiences at CodeMash 2012 here. This was my third time at this event that always offers great sessions, workshops, discussions, fun, and bacon. I am honored to have again been given the chance to speak at CodeMash. I co-presented the Software Craftsmanship precompiler workshops with Steve Smith for the 3rd year running. This year, we broke our day-long workshop into 2 sections: one beginner session and one inte ...
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by admin via Brendan Enrick on 4/29/2011 2:43:39 PM
A Rock Paper Scissors tournament is being put on by the Windows Azure team. The competition is a fun challenge designed to be a fun way to compete against other developers for some bragging rights. If bragging rights aren’t enough for you, there are prizes also being given out. 1st: XBox 360 / Kinect bundle 2nd: Kinect 3rd: $50 Gift Card To join the competition, you just have to download the starting code and set up an Azure account to submit your code. They have detailed instructions o ...
by admin via Brendan Enrick on 10/12/2010 11:51:13 AM
Writing good code that can be trusted to work means unit testing your code. In order to effectively maintain these tests you will need to follow the same principles you would with any other code. This of course means that you extract logic to achieve code reuse, name methods and objects clearly, use composition, and use inheritance. In this post I am going to show how you can get some code reuse when you’re following another good testing practice. You should keep things well abstracted. I like ...
by benrick via Brendan Enrick on 8/1/2010 10:00:00 AM
Now that the dust has settled from the recent Software Engineering 101 event we put on in Cleveland, I figured I would repost some of the material I talked about. This means some of connections that I vocalized and supplement the material from the slides I used for Software Engineering 101. Object Oriented Principles, Practices, and Patterns My first talk of the day was on Object Oriented Principles, Practices, and Patterns in which I start by discussing some common principles of object oriented ...
by Brendan Enrick via Brendan Enrick on 5/21/2010 2:00:00 PM
If you’ve ever had a team responding to the needs of multiple stakeholders I am sure you’ve seen some interesting trends. Some stakeholders will sit quietly and have their requests ignored while others will always push their needs to the front. This of course happens in a lot of different fields. There are always the pushy people who want their stuff done first, because it’s “top priority”. Maybe it is, but that’s not for the team to decide. So how can you prevent problems from arising from thi ...
by Brendan Enrick via Brendan Enrick on 11/14/2008 8:18:00 PM
On a project I am currently working, we have some normalized data which we need all instances of our Worker Role to have access to. This data when denormalized for the table structure we use requires us to take each row and turn it into about 50,000 rows. Because of this we obviously don't want to denormalize it and store it in Azure's table storage. We eventually will be doing this, but we need to work with it before denormalizing it. The plan we came up with is to serialize the data and store ...
by Brendan via Brendan Enrick on 11/4/2008 6:30:02 PM
I've got some code I need to write for the company I work for which will will be putting on the cloud. Since I started working with Microsoft's cloud solution a couple of months ago, I've noticed one problem that is probably very common with early releases of technology. The samples they provide just don't cut it. Some of them are pretty good, and I've referenced them when trying to work with things. It really takes the community's involvement to really get a good bunch of articles and samples t ...
by Brendan via Brendan Enrick on 11/4/2008 2:33:25 PM
The cloud is nice and useful, but there is one feature which is vitally important to most applications in my opinion. The storage which is used in Azure pretty much will need to be used by every application. One of the reasons for this is because there is a little bit of management of processes which needs to be done. This I've noticed requires a combination of the Queues and the Tables. Queues are great because roles are able to queue up work which needs to be done. This helps make sure that al ...
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