Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
I am planning to take the Certified ScrumMaster Training By Carlton Nettleton in Irvine,CA offered by Conscires Agile Practices in next couple of weeks. In lieu of reading up to it, a friend and co-worker David Lazar recently shared his links of all things agile and here it is as a public service announcement. An Agile Adoption and…
I had a great time last night speaking to OWASP Los Angeles November Monthly Meeting on the topic of WCF Security – Securing your Service Oriented Architecture. The abstract of the talk, presentation slides and code follows. Abstract: Any Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) needs to support security features that provide auditing, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity for the messages exchanged between the client and the…
Big Data Event @ Caltech Event Abstract: It’s raining data. Actually, it’s more like a hurricane. Every website, email, SMS text, mouse click, download and online purchase generates data, a lot of data. This data is being assembled into massive data sets and used by scientists, researchers, companies and the government to develop new products,…
I like to think that we all agree that effective commenting is important; Code Tells You How, Comments Tell You Why. Comments should say things about the code that the code can't say about itself — at the summary level or the intent level even with intention revealing names. An example by coding horror is…
Ebook: 31 Days of Refactoring (Sean Chambers) http://lostechies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/31DaysRefactoring.pdf http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/sean_chambers/archive/2009/07/31/31-days-of-refactoring.aspx Presentation: Refactoring Tactics and Strategies http://lens.cos.ufrj.br/sugarloafplop/2002/download/refactoring-tutorial.pdf Site: SourceMaking’s Refactorings Catalog http://sourcemaking.com/refactoring Book: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, et. al.) http://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html Book: Refactoring To Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky) http://www.industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/ Site: Martin Fowler’s Refactorings Catalog http://refactoring.com/catalog/index.html Site:…
Having listened to Marty Abbot and Michael Fisher methodically dissect scalability bottlenecks and hash out fault isolation in large scale enterprise systems, I decided to pick up "50 Principles for Scaling websites" with high hopes and wasn't disappointed. These fifty rules, some of them seemingly obvious and others with specific details serve as a…
The terms Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are colloquially used interchangeably and numerous times, the distinction is lost. In one of the DI must read books, Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seeman, the particularity of these entities are explained quite well. Following is the excerpt. The term Inversion of Control (IoC) originally meant any sort of programming style where an…
Thanks to coding-architect-extraordinaire colleague and friend David Lazar, following are some links to a few excellent decks from Simon Brown's "Coding The Architecture". Documenting Your Software Architecture: Why? and How? -- Big Architecture Documents are BAD. http://static.codingthearchitecture.com/presentations/sa2009-documenting-your-software-architecture-why-and-how.pdf How Much Up-Front Design Is Just Enough? Be a JEDI: do Just Enough Design Initially http://static.codingthearchitecture.com/presentations/skillsmatter2012-just-enough.pdf Master Builder…
With the release of .NET Framework 4.5 last week, there has been several questions regarding the upgrade path as well as what OS is supported. .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade and you can read more about it in Scott Hanselman's detailed post here. Hopefully the following points would make the versioning and support issues more…
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric provides caching capabilities to facilitate high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data. Also, for composite applications, AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage services built using Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. It also provides amazing monitoring capabilities for your existing WCF services. After dabbling early with…