Thoughts from a Train

The last few weeks have been hectic so say the least. The current project is ambitious from multiple viewpoints, which means finding cycles to blog is currently challenging, but things should get easier in the near future.

January 2008 appears to have been a Redmond. A colleague has just returned from one event, and now I see that Never In Doubt has been over at Microsoft looking at Prism - Composite WPF.

I see DWT has an article about Lehman and its quest to share its grid. Lehman uses Platform’s Symphony grid management software, unlike many other banks that have DataSynapse. One of the many challenges of sharing a grid and migrating from the usual silo usage mode is the ability to support SLA’s, offer sensible monitor and introduce a data fabric. Appears Lehman’s has also looked at virtual file systems (Ibrix Fusion, IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS) and NetApp’s SpinFS) in its quest to gridify its trading applications.

Pretty good read of what is happening Lang.NET over a IronPython URL’s blog.

The Moth has a good posting on native threading API’s in Vista/Windows Server 2008.

~ by mdavey on January 29, 2008.