Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
During my recent Borders’s-browsing, I came across Richard Monson-Haefel’s book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know with the tag line, “Collective Wisdom from the Experts”. The book is interesting and even though it falls short in providing details, gives a good overview of architectural principles. Mind you, this is not a book with case…
Last night I spoke to Orange County SQL user group on SQL Azure, Microsoft’s cloud based relational database. SQL Azure, dubbed as re-launch of SQL Data Services (SDS) (and later SQL Services) is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data storage capabilities for Azure Services Platform. In the talk I discussed the challenges of putting…
A while ago I did a blog post on WCF-ASMX interoperability which came out from an experience I had in service collaboration with a partner. In a recent conversation with Jeff Bergman, a friend and co-worker, there was a question of WCF or not to WCF on a project which requires similar service interop and…
The Large Hadron Collider was created to help unlock the secrets of the universe. And also to create a working SOA implementation. (SOAFacts.com) In a recent all-things-technology dinner conversation with a friend and developer extraordinaire Rashid, we talked about his recent purchase, Thomas Erl’s Service-oriented architecture: concepts, technology, and design. During this discussion he rightfully…
At PDC08 keynote, Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft has just announced the CTP launch of Windows Azure - The Cloud Computing Platform. In his words, its the 'World of parallel computing and world of horizontal scale" and Azure is the answer to cloud computing needs for the service age. It's a hosted 'app-engine'…
Photos from the ACM KDD 2008 Conference. KDD 2008 Day 1 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 KDD 2008 Day 2 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 KDD 2008 Day 3 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 KDD 2008 Day 4 Set 1 Set 2
ACM's KDD 2008 is the annual premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. This year this event was held in Loews Lake Las Vegas resort where Jeff Bergman and I attended it. Details of the program can be found here…
Testing web services is a pivotal part of contemporary enterprise project life cycle; developers, QA and even system guys do it to validate different aspects of the middleware. This testing comes with its own set of challenges; Aside from being ineffective, testing complex types is not possible via the default browser based test client and…
While reading up on outlier cohesion analysis in collaborative social networks, I came across this article which I found pretty interesting in the security niche; “Structural Analysis and Destabilizing Terrorist Networks” by N. Memon et al. The article discusses key areas in network analysis such as (i) cohesion analysis (such as cliques, ncliques, n-clans and…
Aspect Oriented Programming: Radical Research in Modularity Video: Aspect-Oriented Modeling - what it is and what it's good for Video: Anurag Mendhekar: Aspect-Oriented Programming (Dan Friedman) PointCut Doctor IDE Support for Understanding and Diagnosing AspectJ Pointcuts Aspect.NET 2.1 An aspect-oriented programming tool for Microsoft.NET Loom.NET The LOOM .NET project aims to investigate and promote…