April 2007 - Posts

Workflow, Part I

In the next series of posts I’m going to dig into a specific workflow example, showing how continuations can be used to support a process that moves forward by fits and starts, and how this can be considerably easier than you expect.  I’d Read More

Blog Examples and HelpMatch

Ruth Malan at Bredemeyer is enlisting help from architects and developers to define, design, and deploy (the 3 D’s) a system called HelpMatch, which would be used to create a decentralized system that could match people that wish to provide charitable Read More

The relationship between continuations and workflow

When it comes to resurrecting a continuation and returning to a prior flow of control, the most critical issue is the ability to accurately identify the continuation to be resumed based on an external event.  Any application beyond a simple example Read More

The Continuations Class

In this posting I am going to discuss the central class used to support continuations, the Continuation class.  The implementation I will discuss in this posting is minimalist in nature, providing the bare essentials to support continuations.  Read More

A 3D Browser Based Implementation of Conway's Life

A friend of mine at my clients, Tyler Maxwell, pointed me at a 3D version of Conway's Game of Life he did in Java as an undergrad.  I was suprised by it, as it's an older Java application, yet it's performance using an orthographic view of 3D Read More

Found article on interaction design, usability, related topics

Found this article on the web today -  it's a very good presentation of a lot of the issues surrounding information design, usability, etc. Read More

Introduction to Continuations

In this posting I am going to lay some of the groundwork for explaining what continuations are, why they are a ‘good thing’ and how .Net makes them easy.  Continuations are not new, they’ve been around for quite a while.  What is new is the Read More

An evolution in SOA architectures - Introduction

Introduction to a pattern for next generation SOA architectures on the .Net platform Read More