My previous article was focused on Linux monitoring. Often, you’ll have in your datacenter at least a few Windows machines. SQL Server is one of the best excuses these days to get a Microsoft machine in your server room - and you know what, it’s a decent database - well, at least for medium-sized companies [...]
The Servlet 2.3 specifications introduced the notion of servlet filters, powerful tools but unfortunately used in quite unimaginative ways. Let’s take for instance this ONJava article (”Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have”) written by one of the coauthors to Servlets and JavaServer Pages; the J2EE Web Tier (a well-known servlets and JSP book [...]
Having recently stumbled upon this thread on Sitepoint community forums, I found a certain Mr. Selkirk advocating page controllers instead of front controller - meaning that the state machine logic is distributed in each page/state. I have some pragmatic problems with the approach since this means that a large (hundreds of pages) site would imply [...]
“More and more pressure is on Microsoft to rush Longhorn. Apparently, a number of Microsoft licensees will get some sort of massive refund if the product isn't delivered in 2006, and the word on the street is that the code keeps breaking. My guess is that at the last minute the company will kludge together [...]
… at least that's what Mr. David Gristwood says in this (otherwise excellent) entry ('21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft develops its Software') on his MSDN weblog. Davis thinks that :
Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While clever QA management can [...]
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