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Wiley has lately published a book titled "Software Factories", written by Greenfield and Short. Having just finished the book, I must say it is interesting reading.
If you are interested in concepts like Model Driven Development (MDD), Model Driven Architectures (MDAs), this book is something for you. It also contains good introductions to these topics.
However, the main idea of the book is to establish a way to make the science of software development more mature, but without forgetting the RAD development fashion.
Although the book stays in a rather abstract level (this is the idea), one can find many practical tips and ideas from this book.
Also interesting is the book's view that UML isn't well suited for being the blueprint of software.
Recommended reading. Next, I'm going to focus on Microsoft Press' book about writing secure code.
The US based Visual Studio .NET Developer magazine has my latest article about Borland's Delphi 2005 development environment.
It is interesting to see what kind of feedback the article generates, for I think it is the first time a Borland product gets mentioned in this magazine in this extent.
The article is titled "Out on a Date with Delphi".
Also, just yeaterday I finished my article about the System.Diagnostics namespace for the same magazine. It might appear in the May issue.
It seems I've been busy with my forthcoming development article, for I haven't been writing anything to my blog for a week.
But nonetheless, today I found time to read Keith Brown's good introduction to Code Access Security (CAS) in .NET.
This article is good reading, but it could be a just little bit longer. Now it ends in just the most interesting part. :-)
Security is surely on the spotlight these days. MSDN has again two good articles about web application security in the ASP.NET world.
The first article is Dino's trademark quality, and it is titled "Take Advantage of ASP.NET Built-in Features to Fend Off Web Attacks". It is available here.
The second article is about the Patterns & Practices guidance. It also contains some code, which is good for studies. The article can be found here.
My pile of books next to my bed had dimished, and so I found myself at the Akateeminen bookstore on a busy Saturday afternoon.
It's a habitual thing to visit the "Classics" bookself, and pick some books from there. This time, my selection was the following:
At 3 euros each, I guess this is quite the best of what one can find from a bookstore. And no, these books weren't on discount! :-)
Brad Abrams from the WinFx team had a fun blog post regarding the "best" method names ever.
I've seen many funny method names (sometimes, I've even designed my own), but there's also one special type of nerd humor I like: hexadecimal wording. This is the art of have funny constant values, much like these:
const uint LEGACY_VALUE = 0xDEADBEEF; const uint THUMBS_UP = 0xB00BBABE; const uint ERROR_TOTAL_FAILURE = 0xFACE0FF; const bool FALSE_FLAG = (0xCE0 == 0xDEAF); const bool DEBUG_STATE = (0xDECAF + 0xC0FFEE == 0xBAD);
To help you a bit, here's a (partial) word list you can use in your hexadecimal word plays:
0B0E 0DD 0FF ABBA AD0 AD0BE ADA ADD B00 B00B B0A B0B BABA BABE BAD BE BE BED BEE BEEF BEEFCACE C00 C0C0A C0CA C0DA C0DE C0DEC C0ED C0FFEE CAB CAD CE0 D0 DAD DAD DAFF0 DEAD DEAD DEAF DEC0 DEC0DE DECADE DECAF DEED DEFACE EA EBB ED0 F00 F00D F0E FAB FACADE FACE FACE0FF FADE FED FEE FEED
Late night fun, eh? Remember to eat yer "BEEFCACE".
Last week, Kontakti.Net arranged the yearly 3S Symposium for software development here in Helsinki. My company was present there with Microsoft and Borland and our other tool offerings.
I had a 45 minute session regarding distributed application integration on the Windows platform, and it was a success with over 100 attendees.
Sampo was very kind to give me two programming books after the show: "Writing Secure Code" from Microsoft Press, and "Software Factories" from Wiley.
I'm waiting to get my hands on these two books. But first I need to finish a book about ASP.NET server controls.
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