Brian Ritchie

Content-centric networking is a fundamental change in how communication is handled between distributed devices.  It is PARC's vision for taking the next step in data communication — a change in network architecture to make content retrieval by name, not location, the fundamental operation of the network. Their approach replaces the machine-oriented IP model with a named content model as the basis for the central protocol that connects networks.

Thanks to those who were able to make my presentation at the Jax Arc SIG last night.  I hope you found it increased your interest in learning more about the NOSQL movement and document databases. Other than the fire alarm testing, it was a good time. 

I'll be speaking on the NoSQL movement, document databases and RavenDB tomorrow at the Jacksonville Architecture Special Interest Group.  Our September meeting will be this Tuesday, September 28th at 6:30PM at the Bank of America Building 500.  Pizza and networking will be at 6:00 PM.

Up until now, the only option for running always on/long running processes was to build a Windows Services.  While .NET made building Windows Services easier, they still come with their own set of headaches.  Windows Server AppFabric adds an Auto-Start/Always-Running feature which allows IIS hosted services to behave more like traditional Windows Services.  Services will automatically start when the computer boots, an application pool is started, or an IISRESET is performed.

Jason Gerard and I were talking about document databases the other day, and he said "Have you heard about CQRS?"  This was news to me, so I started doing some research.  Wikipedia, which usually provides good information, said the following "CQRS is simply the creation of two objects where there was previously only one. The separation occurs based upon whether the methods are a command or a query (the same definition that is used by Meyer in Command and Query Separation, a command is any method that mutates state and a query is any method that returns a value)."

It's here!  Netflix has brought their awesome instant streaming technology to the iPhone & iPod touch.  I've tried it over WiFi and it is awesome.  Apparently it works over 3G too.

This Saturday is the 6th Annual Jacksonville .NET Code Camp!   It's an all day geek fest focusing on code and not marketing fluff.