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Twitter's problems are the result of architecture, XMPP may be the answer

The problem with scaling Twitter is not the choice of framework, but the choice of architecture. In other words, abandoning Ruby On Rails probably isn't going to solve all of their problems. At the same time, I'm not sure that decentralization is necessary and comes with its own set of challenges...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-05-2008
The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
Creating a better 404

Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff lays out 5 ways to make the 404...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-31-2007
Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2007
What exactly is an iPhone application?

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
Microsoft Silverlight

A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007
OpenID gaining momentum

On the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it will support OpenID in CardSpace , AOL has become the latest major player to support OpenID . "Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI". This is big news. We made the decision to use OpenID as the sole authentication mechanism on a product we...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-17-2007
SQL Server installation problems on Vista? (Failed to compile the Managed Object Format)

I've been having issues installing SQL Server 2005 tools (i.e., Management Studio) on Vista. I know it works because I was able to get it installed on my tablet also running Vista - I just couldn't get it on my desktop. I thought it might be related to SQLEXPRESS installed as part of the VS.NET 2005...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
SubSonic

We've been using SubSonic lately, which I first bookmarked from Scott's post . Essentially, the project is an implementation of the ActiveRecords pattern from Ruby on Rails in .NET. Or as the authors describe it, , "a toolset that helps a website build itself". I'm using it on a project I'm working on...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
Managing IP Issues with Software

Black Duck's software sounds like an interesting product. As John explains it , protextIP "analyzes your source code, determines where every line of it came from, identifies and summarizes licensing issues affecting every scrap, and identifies areas of potential exposure." They also recently introduced...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-18-2007

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