Windows Server AppFabric – 10K ft View

After a quite while, I’d a chance to start looking into Windows Server AppFabric.  This is one my long pending middler tier component from Windows/.NET combo. What is AppFabric? A set of components provide service hosting, in-memory caching, stateful services persistence and management services, management consoles and API to access these services.  The following figure shows the major responsibilities of [...]

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C# 4.0 Crash Course: Optional and Named Parameter

Parameters with default value. Hence, explicit values not specified in the calling place, default value has been taken. p is the optional parameter here. By default Power does calculate square of v, if p value provided explicitly, does calculate v to the power of p. Actually, two parameter target attributes help to make this feature [...]

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.NET Caching Solutions – A Pre-Velocity Review

Caching is one of the vital aspect for enterprise applications.  ASP.NET Cache is not enough and even not suitable for service layer which is now more predominantly occupied by WCF. A robustic and scalable memory caching solution is required to cache different types of data.  I’m the beliver of “RAM is disk” for service layer.  [...]

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Finally, Google makes its contribution apart from “www” after its yet another linux distro Google Chrome OS.  This time in language space.  Its name is “Go”. Its released for Linux and Mac only.  After downloading the source from https://go.googlecode.com/hg, building the packages and set some environment variables (guide @ http://golang.org/doc/install.html), tried a small sample which [...]

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