Ken Brubaker

Yukon: Managed DTS and Unified Dimension Model

Stephan Forte shares from VSLive that DTS will be fully managed in Yukon. This is great news. No more coding with one arm tied behind your back. I can't wait to see what possibilities it opens up at the deployment/architectural level.

Stephan is also pushing the Unified Dimension Model as OLAP for the Masses. This is also intriguing for the possibilities it may open up. Here's his post.

posted Friday, March 26, 2004 10:01 AM by kenbrubaker with 1 Comments

CLR: .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 Finally ships

Brad Abrams introduces us to the FCL annotated reference with a bombshell. There is agreement among the BCL folks that ApplicationException was a mistake. Here's Brad's take on the issue. Here's a listing of the classes referenced in the book.

posted Friday, March 26, 2004 4:46 AM by kenbrubaker with 0 Comments

Indigo: The MessageBus divorces IIS

Like Barbie without Ken, the Indigo team has divorced the MessageBus architecture from IIS. This was alluded to in the .NET Show episode on Indigo. Don Box makes it quite plain here.

posted Friday, March 26, 2004 3:23 AM by kenbrubaker with 0 Comments

Miguel de Icaza dumps Linux!

In an open reply to a Linux open source developer, Miguel, who was the lead programmer for the popular Gnome Linux desktop environment, and now heads up the open source cross platform CLI implementation Mono, is finally pushing the open source community out of it's Linux nest. It helps, of course, that Mono, itself, works on several platforms. However, here he's gunning for implementing much of the Longhorn platform as well. Don't put it past him. Several fine cross-platform products are already implemented on Mono, even before it's release. It may be to everyone's benefit that Don is not persuasive.

posted Friday, March 26, 2004 3:17 AM by kenbrubaker with 1 Comments