.NET at 9.400 ft above sea level
Programming in Quito, 2.860 m above sea level
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Easy, elegant and powerful .NET
At the end of an introductory course on distributed application with .NET, a programmer made this question: "How can I use a VB 6 COM component from a remote .NET app?" Lucky me, just yesterday we were reviewing .NET Remoting (following Ingo Rammer's excellent Advanced .NET Remoting), so I proposed this solution:
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Nice reading
I am reading Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture and so far I like what I read. The title pretty much describes what the book tries to say, but aside of that I really like its high level dissection of the elements of a business application. It also tries to define a common vocabulary for discussing a system design issues. I guess many people have tried to do this, with varying degrees of success, what appeals me from Fowler is his no-frills, no-self-importance, down-to-earth terminology (for being a UML expert, his vocabulary is quite non-UML-ish ;-). It is also telling the fact altough most of the examples in the book are in Java, C# appears in a number of places and Fowler kind of sanctifies the use of the .NET platform (no small feat, Fowler is really admired in O-O circles). Right now, I have hardly got to one third of the book and probably it will take a while to get to the end (if ever, most of the chapters are use-as-needed reference material), but so far I feel compelled to recommend reading it.