Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

Although JQuery provides a very good support for caching responses from AJAX calls in the browser, it is always good to know how you can use http as protocol for making an effective use of it.

Another important milestone in my career started three years ago when I joined Tellago. I convinced my friend Jesus to hire me, and I would eventually move to the United States with my family to work in the company.  That never occurred for some personal things, but I fortunately had a chance to create an excellent team of very talented people in Argentina. I started myself working remotely from Argentina, and the things went so well for the company that we end up hiring more than 15 great architects down here in Argentina.  Creating this team was a very interesting and completely new challenge in my career.

Limited connectivity is one of the main challenges in web mobile. The stateless nature of http causes that  content  and associated static files like scripts or images be transmitted over the wire every time a page is fully refreshed (assuming http caching is not implemented correctly). Diverse techniques have emerged over the years to solve part of that problem by using the browser AJAX support. One of these techniques, which drastically changed the way we develop web applications is know as single page applications.

One common problem with the naming convention and default routing mechanism in ASP.NET MVC is that we tend to group actions in a controller for sharing an URL space.  This basically leads to complex controllers with a lot of unrelated methods that break the SOLID principles.  Too many responsibilities in a simple class affects maintainability in the long run and causes secondary effects that complicates unit testing. For example, we usually end up with class constructors that receives too many dependencies as it is discussed here in SO.

Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently started a new project whose codename is “Liike” (pronounced as LEEE-keh) for delivering guidance and a reference application in the mobile web space. As many of the recent initiatives started by different teams in Microsoft, this project will also be hosted in GitHub under http://liike.github.com/. All the artifacts, patterns and code generated during the project will be shared as part of that project.

Faye is a simple Http Pub/Sub server initially implemented by John Coglan in Ruby, and also later ported by himself to Node.js. The version for Node.js implements the Bayeux protocol, which at first glace, many of us known as http long polling.

If you are using SQL Azure nowadays, you probably know that there are only a few alternatives for making backups of your existing data.

We have been working a lot lately with PowerShell as part of our star product at Tellago Studios, “Moesion”. One of the main features we provide in Moesion is the ability to execute PowerShell commands remotely in a given server using a web mobile interface (You can read more in my previous post about Moesion).