Scott Weinstein on .Net

Over the winter break I wanted to learn more about a few technologies:

I had a WCF service where I wanted to be able to support over a hundred concurrent users, and while most of the service methods had small payloads which returned quickly, the startup sequence needed to pull down 200,000 records. The out of the box WCF service had no ability to support this scenario, but with some effort I was able to squeeze orders of magnitude performance increases out of the service and hit the performance goal.

If you've every had to add more then two users to a distribution list in outlook you know just how painful the modal dialogs can be.

Coral8 provides a custom language dedicated to event stream processing/complex event processing class/continuous intelligence. As clichéd as it may be, Coral8's strength is also its weakness, in that once you start working in ccl, you give up all the tools ( compilers, code generators, static analysis, profilers, debuggers, etc.) of a general-purpose language. As a result, every so often I start musing about how much effort it would take to re-create some of its stream based processing capabilities in C#

Have you every wanted to use Windows Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell script on a frequent schedule, but hated how the console window would flash on the screen every time the script ran? Yeah, me too.

I've released updates for the Coral8 PowerShell provider.

At the last New York .Net Meetup, Luke Hoban presented an overview of F#. Like everyone else who's catching the F# bug I was quite impressed with its succinctness, sequences, forward pipes, and support for asynchronous programming (called workflows).

In nearly every bit of WPF training material or weblog there is some reference to the "ah-ha" moment. The point at which all the new concepts you've been learning gel into a cohesive unit.