Advice on how to overcome objections to agile methodologies.
The posted message queue vs the input queue vs the message queue
There are multiple ways of viewing the interaction between posted messages and input messages. MSDN prefers to view posted messages and input messages as part of one giant pool of messages in a message queue, with rules about which ones get processed first. I, on the other hand, prefer to think of posted messages and input messages as residing in different queues that are processed in sequence.
Using Amazon Login (and LinkedIn and …) with Windows Azure Access Control
One of the services provided by the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS). It is a service that provides federated authentication and rules-driven, claims-based authorization. It has some social providers like Microsoft Account, Google Account, Yahoo! and Facebook. But what about the other social identity providers out there? For example the newly introduced Login with Amazon, or LinkedIn? As they are OAuth2 implementations they don’t really fit into ACS.
The Decorator Pattern in .NET
The decorator pattern is a good way to add extensibility to an application, as it follows SOLID design principles. Learn how to use it by adding validation logic to a form.
