Convertible Tablet: HP Envy x2

Finally some competition to Microsoft’s Surface hybrid!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHroxzEZfIY] <p>This goes in another direction (compared to Surface).</p> <p>This means the paradigm one-OS multiple hardware vendor is still good for consumers!</p>

A Hitchhiker's Guide to StreamInsight 2.1 Queries

Microsoft has released a very interesting tutorial (in PDF format) with an accompanying VS Solution.

Microsoft Surface Keynote

Have a look at the Microsoft Surface Keynote from last Monday night.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpltjgXMTf8] <p>…  Wow!</p>

Applied SOA: Part 9–Service Versioning

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition
• System Consistency
• Security

In this article, I’ll cover Service Versioning.

In SOA a Service...

Mocking Dependencies != IoC (or at least it doesn’t have to)

Since I met the concept of Inversion of Control (IoC) I’ve been a big fan!  What an elegant way to externalize dependencies and decouple a component from all the components it depends on.  No longer is a component initializing a dependency initially coupling itself in a hard way.

A nice side-effect is that an IoC-compliant component is easier to...