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Jeromy Carriere's WebLogSoftware architecture and whatnothttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2005-02-08T07:38:00ZDeparted ...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/12/12/502708.aspx2005-12-12T17:15:00Z2005-12-12T17:15:00Z
I should have made this posting a few weeks back... I'm no longer with Microsoft; I've joined Fidelity Investments, here in Boston, as an architect in their Enterprise Application Architecture group. At this point, it seems unlikely that I'll have a public blog, at least on technical topics, due to constraints imposed by Fidelity. (Of course I have an internal blog.)

So long for now, and thanks for reading!

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxFrom Burton Group: "The Microsoft Superplatform: Setting the Bar in the Superplatform Arms Race"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/09/06/461374.aspx2005-09-06T16:10:08Z2005-09-06T16:10:08Z
On August 17th, Burton Group published a paper "The Microsoft Superplatform: Setting the Bar in the Superplatform Arms Race". Obviously a favorable title from Microsoft's perspective, and I think a nice treatment of the superplatform concept overall. In a nutshell, a superplatform is a cohesive and integrated stack of capabilities for building enterprise applications - Microsoft has Windows Server, .NET, SQL Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, BizTalk Server, SharePoint, etc.; in their unification, we have a superplatform. Burton Group identifies the other superplatform vendors as BEA, IBM, Oracle and SAP.

In the synopsis of the paper, Burton Group says "One Burton Group client said that it was forced to re-implement a critical .NET application in Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for scalability reasons." When I first read this, I was pretty annoyed. It makes it sound like good architecture, design and implementation have nothing to do with scalability, and it's only up to the (super)platform. Fortunately, the authors recognize the issue in the body of the paper:

It's quite possible that the improvement in performance experienced by this company was caused by a factor not related to Windows versus UNIX. For example, the J2EE application may have been better designed or optimized to deal with a specific bottleneck. And certainly not every application will scale better on UNIX than on Windows. In fact, another company interviewed for this report experienced the opposite results - it gained performance and scalability improvements when porting from J2EE to .NET.

Although the paper is generally conservative with respect to the scalability of the Microsoft platform overall, primarily blaming the x86 hardware architecture (which itself deserves debate, I believe), I'm happy that they didn't leave that point from the synopsis hanging.

Now, a potentially more interesting thought: in the "non-superplatform alternatives" section of the paper, the authors include mid-tier J2EE application platform vendors, open source J2EE application server projects, open source Java-based rebel frameworks and LAMP platforms and projects. What about Windows? Presumably "mid-tier J2EE application platform vendors" includes IBM and BEA with their respective J2EE application servers. What about Windows with .NET and Enterprise Services with a non-Microsoft portal or database or BPM system or whatever? Do we only get to play as a consolidated superplatform?

I believe this is a common misconception around the Microsoft platform - that it's all-or-nothing. In fact, the Microsoft platform is extraordinarily effective at working in a technology-heterogeneous environment. Sure, web services are one (big, important) part of this, but so are things like ADO.NET providers (for Oracle, DB2, etc.), BizTalk adapters (for SAP, for WebSphere MQ, etc.), Host Integration Server, protocol support (like LDAP, Kerberos, etc.) and so on. I won't say anything about WSRP here. So let's join that "non-superplatform alternatives" list, too.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxLAAAMhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/08/27/457081.aspx2005-08-27T14:24:59Z2005-08-27T14:24:59Z
When I was at the Software Engineering Institute, I contributed to ATAM. During my time at Microsoft, I've been working on a related method, called the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method.

ATAM is a scenario-driven method - it organizes quality attributes hierarchically in a utility tree with scenarios at the leaves of the tree. A scenario operationalizes a quality attribute into a measurable expression incorporating context, stimulus and response. Rather than saying "my system needs to be scalable", we say "while operating in steady state (context), the add-to-cart transaction profile experiences a 10x increase in utilization (stimulus) and the system responds with no more than 20% degradation response time for other transactions (response)." Importantly, ATAM (and LAAAM) also treat non-run-time quality attributes (although we're not strict about that characterization): "after deployment (context), a new settlement rule is added (stimulus) with no developer involvement and is deployed with no system downtime (response).

The utility tree is the mechanism by which we organize and prioritize scenarios. In ATAM, architectural decisions are analyzed against highly-prioritized scenarios to identify sensitivity points (architectural decisions that have a significant impact on quality attributes) and tradeoffs (sensitivity points affecting multiple quality attributes in competing ways - e.g. improving performance scenarios and degrading flexibility scenarios).

LAAAM takes the scenario-driven perspective of ATAM and derives a lightweight approach to assessing high-level architectural decisions. Where ATAM focuses on a highly rigorous, formal analysis of the impact (sensitivity and tradeoff implications) of any architectural decision, LAAAM considers "strategies" - higher-level architectural approaches. Strategies can take on many forms, but are frequently at the level of "implement using loosely-coupled communicating autonomous services" and "implement using a database-oriented application integration approach."

LAAAM produces an "assessment matrix": one dimension of the matrix (usually vertical) is the set of scenarios that will be assessed against; the other dimension (usually horizontal) is the set of strategies that will be assessed. Each cell of the matrix thus represents the assessment of a specific strategy in the context of a specific scenario. This assessment incorporates three dimensions: fit, development cost and operations cost. Fit describes the general viability of achieving the scenario using the strategy; fit also incorporates as assessment of risk, organizational impact (e.g. utilization of non-standard technology) and alignment with strategic direction in the enterprise. Development cost assesses how difficult it will be to implement the scenario using the strategy. Operations cost assesses the operational impact of the strategy in the context of the scenario. Each of these dimensions is scored on five point scale: high, moderate-high, moderate, low-moderate, low. Unfortunately, the meaning of "high" is opposite in the context of fit and in the context of cost - we fix this when we turn the scores into numerics: high is a score of 2 and low is a score of 0 for fit, but high is a score of 0 and low is a score of 2 for development and operations cost.

Once we've assessed each scenario/strategy pair, we add up the scores for each strategy. LAAAM anticipates the potential for the need to weight both assessment dimensions (fit, development cost, operations cost) and scenarios in order to accommodate organizational priorities. I argue to keep weights equal unless there's a strong reason to do otherwise, and I favor weighting scenarios over weighting assessment dimensions (using the prioritization described above - more on this later).

At the end of a LAAAM assessment, the result isn't a cut-and-dried "this alternative is obviously the best." Instead, LAAAM guides us to identify the real quality drivers, build consensus among the stakeholders on the relative importance of these drivers, explore the strengths and weaknesses of architectural alternatives under consideration, potentially exclude some clearly inadequate approaches.

I've applied the LAAAM approach with several Microsoft customers as part of my engagement as an Architect Advisor. I find it to be a great mechanism to get objectivity around architectural alternatives, even though I'm "the Microsoft guy."

I've been trying to get a paper on LAAAM out the door for a long time - I'll keep at it. In the meantime, check out MSF for CMMI ® Process Improvement (MSF v4). LAAAM is the "Assess Alternatives" activity in the "Create Solution Architecture" workstream of the "Planning" phase. (Thanks to David Anderson.)

Many thanks to Tim Mallalieu for his contributions to LAAAM.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEnvironment-specific configuration for EntLibhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/08/23/455347.aspx2005-08-24T01:48:14Z2005-08-24T01:48:14Z
I have a number of customers that are using EntLib, but with a common concern: how to manage environment-specific (i.e. development, QA, integration test, production) configuration information simply.

Check out http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/olaf/archive/2005/08/11/8890.aspx.

(This was posted using CSBlogger - which I've been very happy with so far.)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMust-see new stuffhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/06/15/429342.aspx2005-06-15T16:05:21Z2005-06-15T16:05:21Z
Wow … tons of great new stuff to take a look at:

Web Services Enhancements 3.0 Tech Preview. The big deal with WSE 3.0 is an improved and simplified security approach, plus support for the Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM).

Domain-Specific Language Tools May CTP Release. The May CTP works with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 Sample Application.

Microsoft Certified Architect Program. I've been involved in the program since early in the year; I've sat on two certification boards, and was certified as a Solution Architect myself in March.

Check it out.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft Architecture Resource Centerhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/06/05/425397.aspx2005-06-05T16:31:14Z2005-06-05T16:31:14Z
Go see it: http://www.microsoft.com/architecture.

I'm interested in what people think about the way the architecture center is organized. Does it map to the way you want to find information?

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxArchitecture webcast serieshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/05/31/423401.aspx2005-05-31T14:19:00Z2005-05-31T14:19:00Z
Don't miss the series of architecture webcasts coming up in June and July:

Connecting Your Business with Service Orientation
Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A.M. PT,
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Creating a Shared Technology Vision
Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A.M. PT,
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

The Value of Reusable Frameworks
Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A.M. PT,
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Examining Enterprise Service Patterns
Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A.M. PT,
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWS-ReliableMessaging spec submitted to OASIShttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/04/19/409852.aspx2005-04-20T02:03:00Z2005-04-20T02:03:00ZAnother big step forward for web services standardization and interoperability: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/apr05/04-19OasisStandardizationPR.asp.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAnalogy?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/24/401801.aspx2005-03-24T21:56:00Z2005-03-24T21:56:00Z
Service orientation is to object orientation

as

Relativity is to quantum theory

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxArgh ... Cingularhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/21/399643.aspx2005-03-21T14:28:00Z2005-03-21T14:28:00Z
Last Tuesday I lost my phone. That's painful enough by itself, but resolution was even more painful.

I figured I'd just walk into an AT&T Wireless/Cingular store and buy a new phone. Well, I'm a legacy AT&T Wireless customer; apparently, that gives them the right to extort me (actually, it does). Right now, I pay roughly $100/month for 1000 minutes, unlimited nights (starting at 7PM) and weekends, unlimited mobile-to-mobile and unlimited data. If I wanted to buy a new phone in a Cingular store – AT&T and Cingular phones are SIM-locked *differently*, and there is no stock of AT&T phones on the east coast – I'd have to switch to a Cingular contract. This was going to cost roughly $150/month, but no unlimited nights and weekends, no unlimited mobile-to-mobile and nights starting at 9PM.

My only other option was to call customer service and wait 48 hours for a new SIM card and phone. That wasn't going to work, given my travel and work schedule.

Ultimately, I managed to convince the guy at the store to dig up an old AT&T SIM card for me (which he initially denied having) so that I could put it in an old Smartphone. The silver lining is the ease with which I can recover from loosing a phone – just point the Smartphone at the Exchange server and sync. All done.

Now the question is how to get a new phone, and which one to get… I guess I'll be buying unlocked phones online from now on.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAvalon and Indigo CTP releaseshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/17/397394.aspx2005-03-17T14:05:00Z2005-03-17T14:05:00ZAvalon and Indigo are now available to MSDN subscribers. This is Indigo's first public release for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Also see the WinFX SDK documentation; WinFX currently comprises .NET 2.0, Indigo and Avalon.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft buys Groovehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/10/392245.aspx2005-03-10T20:31:00Z2005-03-10T20:31:00Z
Microsoft has just announced it will acquire Groove Networks. Ray Ozzie will become Microsoft CTO.

This is, at the very least, extremely interesting.

(My first BlogJet post…)

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxUpcoming ASP.NET 2.0 course in the Boston areahttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/08/389863.aspx2005-03-09T02:20:00Z2005-03-09T02:20:00Z

Fritz Onion, of Pluralsight, is giving a 4 day intensive course on ASP.NET 2.0. One instance of the course will be held in the Boston area.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxVSLive Indigo Day presentation videoshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/08/389817.aspx2005-03-09T00:43:00Z2005-03-09T00:43:00Z

Check them out.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxComments offhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/07/388869.aspx2005-03-08T04:02:00Z2005-03-08T04:02:00Z
I had to disable comments ... the comment spam today was completely insane...

What's the solution?

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxBad day for Microsoft; good day for Amazonhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/07/387061.aspx2005-03-07T18:26:00Z2005-03-07T18:26:00Z

http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2005/03/03/384636.aspx

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEnterprise Library Webcast Serieshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/03/384448.aspx2005-03-03T21:54:00Z2005-03-03T21:54:00Z
There's a great webcast series getting started on Enterprise Library - the new unified release of seven key application blocks from Microsoft patterns and practices:

 •	 3/3/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Overview

 •	 3/4/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block

 •	 3/8/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block

 •	 3/10/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Caching Application Block

 •	 3/14/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Logging & Instrumentation Application Block

 •	 3/17/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block

 •	 3/22/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Cyrptography Applciation Block

 •	 3/24/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Security Application Block

 •	 3/28/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library - Building your own application block

 •	 3/31/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Applied

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxKinitos releases V1.6http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/03/01/382301.aspx2005-03-01T15:54:00Z2005-03-01T15:54:00Z

Kinitos, the startup I co-founded before I joined Microsoft, has released their 1.6 version:

Kinitos announced today the release of version 1.6 that revolutionizes how enterprises and software vendors deploy and manage their Microsoft .NET Framework-based client applications. With Kinitos, Windows Forms and smart client applications are as easy to deploy, monitor, update and manage as Web-based applications.

I keep meaning to blog more about Kinitos, because their platform is very cool.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxOutlook active foldershttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/02/26/380940.aspx2005-02-26T19:11:00Z2005-02-26T19:11:00Z

I have a lot of folders in Outlook/Exchange. I mean lots, and in a pretty deep hierarchy. I firmly believe in two modalities when finding stuff: navigating and searching. Searching is taken care of by MSN desktop search, but I still need to be able to organize and categorize. I've thought about using POPFile and Outclass to do Bayesian classification, but those tools are really geared much more toward spam filtering than learning for automated filing (unless someone can tell me how to easily create a whole bunch of POPFile buckets from an existing folder hierarchy). So, I've resorted to an approach that automatically lists folders in order of frequency of use, much like the "Move to Folder" button that Outlook has, but with more flexibility and configurability.

The way it works: I have a folder hierarchy under my top-level Exchange mailbox that's called "Active". Under Active is a flat list of folders that represent my N "most active" folders (N=25, currently). "Most active" is determined by total count of emails filed into that folder. In each folder is a single email – a metadata store that contains the EntryID of a real folder elsewhere in my folder hierarchy, plus a count of the number of emails I've filed in that folder. A WinForms application (which should be an Outlook add-in, really) listens to ItemAdd events for all of my Outlook folders, and increments the count in the appropriate active folder metadata item. Periodically (once a minute; the user experience sucked when I sorted after each filing), the folders are re-sorted to keep displaying the top N; I played around with actually ordering them strictly by activity, but it was way more useful to just have the top N sorted by name.

Most importantly, I can file messages in the active folders and they automatically move to the real folder (thus incrementing the count). Also important is that the counts decay – once a day, all counts get decremented; I've thought about more complex approaches, but this one seems to work.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxQuestions from SOA Patterns Webcasthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/02/17/375395.aspx2005-02-17T20:19:00Z2005-02-17T20:19:00Z
As I mentioned, I gave a webcast (thanks to Ron for the original material) today on patterns and anti-patterns in SOA, as part of the .NET Unwrapped series for financial services. Frankly, there was really nothing in the webcast that was financial services-specific, because this stuff generally applies across many domains. The same basic material was delivered as a webcast by Ron Jacobs, John Evdemon, Alex Weinert (from the Indigo team) and Ted Neward a few months ago, in a talk show format.

I promised the participants that I'd post all of their content-related questions here, and work to answer them. Here are the questions without answers. I'll start answering (and you should too!) as soon as possible.

Here's the deck.

Rob Asked: Doesn't the loosey goosey [anti-] pattern open you up for sql injection attacks?

Definitely - I was probably a little quick in my treatment of security on this one. This anti-pattern is a clear violation of the explicit boundaries and autonomy tenets. You're exposing all sorts of implementation details of the service.

Shuchi Mittal Asked: So Is the recommendation to have Service Interfaces represent Business Functions?

I think this question was in the context of the CRUD anti-pattern. Generally, services will represent some coherent, atomic, business-relevant operation. The term "service interface" generally refers to an implementation detail that is used to separate the service-specific implementation from infrastructural (e.g. messaging- or security-related) functionality. The service interface manages the contract, and the service implementation does the business operation.

Jm-luca Asked: the response of a function mus be clear but the parameter for that function could be an array or an object?

Let's use "service" instead of "function". Recall the fundamental principle that services only consume and produce messages according to contract and governed by policy. So everything into and out of a service should be considered a schematized message. Note that the programming model (functions, parameters, returns) is distinct from the messaging model, but you need to think about the schema and contract explicitly, rather than as a derivative of the code. When you look at Indigo (David Chappell article), you'll see that the syntax of the service model expresses the contract explicitly, but it does it in the code via attributes.

hw Asked: What type is FindCustomerByCountryRequest? Dataset?

DataSets aren't very interoperable; that is, there's no DataSet in the XSD type system. So we generally we want to avoid their use in service definitions (which would happen automatically if you're specifying messages via schema first). FindCustomerByCountryRequest is a message defined by an explicit schema, then generated into a data transfer object via xsd.exe or XSDObjectGen.

hw Changes Question To: Are these code available for review later?

The code is not currently available. However, this work is being turned into a series of whitepapers plus code examples, which should be available soon. Watch my blog for a link.

Ed Asked: Most important difference between WSDL as a boundary contract and, say, IDL?

(Applies to CORBA and COM IDL.) IMO, the key aspects are: 1. breadth of adoption: WSDL has become much more widely adopted than any (either) IDL; 2. there's an inherent "objectness" to IDLs, frequently causing unnecessary exposure of details of the implementation; 3. WSDL inherently expresses stateless interactions, where IDL can, used naively, lead you into a stateful object realm (which may be what you want, but isn't very service-oriented). As the articles below discuss, you can certainly build loosely-coupled, service-oriented systems using IDL as your contract language; however, there are some hurdles that web services (including WSDL) attempt to overcome. But, as we know, there are lots of ways to make mistakes with web services.

In the vision of SOA,

See  "Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL", the response from Steve Vinoski and the re-response from Savas Parastatidis.

Juma Asked: Is it bad to send SOAP Exceptions(SOAP faults) in a web service?

Nope. You're contract-bound, so tenet-compliant.

Shuchi Mittal Asked: Shouldn't the cache be updated when the request is received and you start processing it, in case the same request were to arrive while you are working on the first request?

This question is related to the Idempotent Message pattern. Very good point. Presumably yes, you'd want to handle that case by marking the cache when processing begins on the first request. Then there are options - you could fail the second request and perhaps indicate that it was a duplicate and the first was going to return. Or you could hold the second request and have it return when the first request produces a result. You'll need to be very careful with failure scenarios here, in case the first request failed silently somewhere deep in your business layer.

Sven Asked: Why should ASMX be used? WSE allows the use of service interfaces without using ASMX pages. I write my own service interfaces that inherit from SoapService. Why is ASMX better?

ASMX is better aligned with Microsoft's strategy going forward (i.e. Indigo). The WSE hosting model, outside IIS, will require more migration effort to get to Indigo than the traditional ASMX model. Also, IIS provides a robust host, whereas with WSE, you'll have to build that yourself. If you use WSE capabilities as extensions to the ASMX model and you avoid fiddling with the WSE pipeline, you should be in good shape for Indigo.

Ricky Asked: Re the CRUDy anti-pattern, RU saying that CRUD should be wrappered in some business process context? that U shouldn't just build "data access layer" services?

Basically, yes. Raw data access services probably don't deliver a lot of value, and likely don't produce a lot of service ROI. However, "entity services" that represent business entities (loans, policies, customers, claims) and business-oriented operations on those entities, make a great deal of sense, and are generally highly reusable across an enterprise.

pk Asked: i'm involved in writing a SOA. the requirement is to expose services available in-process, remoting and web services..is there a pattern that will work well with that scenario.

Pre-Indigo, the best guidance we have is encapsulated in the Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (formerly Shadowfax). See http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.EDRAWiki. Indigo will allow this precise model very seamlessly.

muthu Asked: Do you have examples of applcation blocks/starter kit that handle security/transaction/etc - that we can use as a starting block ?

On security, the examples that ship with WSE give you the basics on doing message signing, encryption, etc. Also see EDRA, linked to above.

redonisc Asked: Can you describe the benefits of using custom messaging instead of using dataset's in methods in a webservice. Better performance???

Generally, interoperability is the key force guiding you away from DataSets and to schematized messages (and the DTO pattern). Performance will also benefit, because serializing a DataSet can be inherently expensive, and a serialized DataSet contains some "extra" stuff (e.g. the DiffGram). The tradeoff I often hear is that DataSets bind very nicely to e.g. ASP.NET (WebForms) controls. To bind a custom DTO, you have to do more work, but it is possible.

Jm-luca Changes Question To: the response of a function mus be clear but the parameter for that function could be an array or an object?, could you say that soa is the new way to develop web applications or is just a new view of what we were doing

I answered the first question above: messages in, messages out.

The second part: SOA is a set of principles to help us build systems out of autonomous services, resulting in benefits of rapid integration, loose coupling and improved predictability and control. It's not just about web applications.

MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNew Orleanshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/02/16/374575.aspx2005-02-16T21:33:00Z2005-02-16T21:33:00Z
We just spent three days in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>. It was a blast, as always. The primary mission was to eat a lot of great food – from raw oysters to filet mignon. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Mission</st1:City></st1:place> accomplished.

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We started off on Saturday night at Jacques Imo's Café on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Oak St</st1:address></st1:Street>. This place is basically in the middle of nowhere, but still only a $15 cab ride from the French Quarter. It's worth the hike. It's also worth the wait (no reservations for parties smaller than six): we got there at 6:00PM, 30 minutes after opening and had a two hour wait. Yep, two hours. And we watched a string of people come in, get quoted two hours, and say "no problem" – only one group out of perhaps 20 walked away. People know what they're waiting for. When we finally ate, we shared the Duck and Andouille Sausage Gumbo as an appetizer. It wins the award for best gumbo ever. Jeannie swears her fried chicken entrée was the best she's ever had. Only downside to the wait: four excellent margaritas in two hours with a commensurate hangover. (I'm confident that this doesn't compromise my assessment of the meal – it's independently verified.)

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Sunday morning breakfast was at Mother's, a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:City></st1:place> landmark. The Shrimp Creole Omelet was awesome, particularly with extra hot sauce. And their biscuits are unstoppable. Hunger was staved off for hours. Well, a couple of hours, at least. We were on a schedule.

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This leads us to lunch, at Acme Oyster House, another landmark. (Also see their Oystercam.) I started with a dozen oysters. Some credit is due here. Marley Gray, another Microsoft Architect Evangelist, taught me how to eat oysters: ask for extra horseradish and mix about a teaspoon into the cocktail sauce, along with six or eight shakes of Tabasco Sauce. Dip an oyster in the sauce to get it coated. Slip it onto a saltine. Slide it into your mouth. Ride out the watering eyes. Feel pleasure. I adapted the tried-and-true this time around: I skipped the saltine.

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Last meal on Sunday was at the famous Commander's Palace. Frankly, I was expecting something a little classier, but the meal was awesome – I had filet mignon, Jeannie had shrimp with a <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cognac</st1:place></st1:City> creole sauce and fried grits. The peak of this meal was the bread pudding soufflé with a whiskey cream sauce. Wowsers. We had a bottle of 2002 Cakebread Cabernet Sauvignon. Also a winner.

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On to Monday. Breakfast was beignets and café au lait at Café du Monde. This meal was quickly walked off, necessitating another trip to Acme Oyster House. This time around, I stuck to six oysters to save room for the Peacemaker – a half-oyster, half-shrimp po-boy sandwich with Tabasco-infused mayo; I stuff it with coleslaw (ordered as a side). As you might be able to guess, I ended this meal a little on the over-full side.

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MSDNArchivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/MSDNArchive/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx.NET in Financial Serviceshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeromyc/archive/2005/02/11/371352.aspx2005-02-12T00:41:00Z2005-02-12T00:41:00ZCheck out this whitepaper on building applications in financial services on Windows and .NET. This paper started out as an overview of connected systems and the application platform. Mike Wons, a Strategy Advisor in financial services at Microsoft, tuned it a bit for financial services concerns.

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I'm doing a webcast on patterns and anti-patterns in SOA next week for .NET Unwrapped. Ron Jacobs originally put this presentation together, and it's since been through some evolution. More info on the event below. (Sorry for the formatting...)

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Don't miss Bill's executive email on interoperability.

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System.Transactions is a pretty interesting new capability coming in .NET 2.0 – lightweight promotable transactions. There's an MSDN TV episode on it.

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In this movie I'll show you how to install the SID application on a Mac. The first thing we need to do is import the databases that are going to be used with SID. So we're going to come over here, I've got the XAMPP welcome screen up here in my browser. I'm just going to click on php My Admin. And some over here to import to import the databases that we're going to use. There's 3 of them so I'll select choose file and this is the exercise files that I have on my desktops if I were to come to desktop exercise files that's the same thing and under sql there's 3 databases here and these are the sql commands that create the databases.
So I'll simply select the first one, and you can see a little preview of it there. If I press the spacebar and I get the quick look, you can see the preview there. This is just the SQL that's used to create this database. And I press open. Now here I want to make sure that I have UTF 8 selected. So, if it's not selected on yours you'll want to select it. And come down here and press the go button and that's imported that database. I'll do it again, press the import button there, choose a file.
And, we'll do the scratch database this time and make sure it says UTF-8 and scroll down and press go. And, one more time, import, and choose a file and choose the world database and select open. Make sure it says UTF-8 and press the go button. And it takes just a moment. And now you see we have these databases over here selected already in the databases on the side there. If I select databases up here you'll see them.
There's the album data base and the world data base, and the. Scratch database. So I can close this window here. And in fact I can quit chrome for now, I'm going to press Cmd+Q to quit that. And now we need to install the sid and the crud application as well. I have 2 finder windows open, one of them is exercise files from my desktop there. And the other one here is under applications, and XAMPP, and HTDOCS and this is where you install your files that'll be served up by the Apache web server that's part of the XAMPP package.
And Sid and Crud are written in PHP and they run under the web server, that's the whole point of the web server here. So all I do is for my exercise files I take both the Sid and the Crud folders. And I want to hold down the option key while I drag them, that'll make copies rather than moving the files. We want to make sure we're working with copies here and I'm going to drag them into this HT docs folder in the other finder window. So, I'll go and there they are, there's. CRUD and there's SID, and now we need to setup the passwords in these so that they work with the database.
Remember, we set up passwords for both of these in a previous movie. So, I'm going to Ctrl+click on SID and open it with my text wrangler text editor application. And I'm going to scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. Right here around line 50, you'll see mysql paths, and right there I'm going to type the password for the sid user that I entered into the database earlier. So here's my password that I've just used for the purpose of these demonstration readings. Do not use this same password, And the mysql user says, sid that's good, so I can save this.
And close it. And then I'm going to do the same thing in CRUD. Come up here to CRUD and open the CRUD application with my TextWrangler app. And then right up here where it has the web user, enter the password for the web user because this one doesn't need all of those special permissions that we used for SID. And so under the web user I'm going to put in that same stupid password, which you will not be using. And I'll go ahead and save that Cmd+s. Quit text wrangler with Cmd+q. And now we can open both of these in the browser.
So I'll open Chrome here, And I'm going to type in local host slash SID in all caps because that was the folder name. slash sid.php just like that, and enter and there is our SID application. I'm going to drag that into my bookmark bar here so I can open that at any time I want. And you'll notice when I say select database it's finding those databases, that actually means that it's working. We can open one of these up. And we can type in some SQL so I selected the album database and I'll type in select star from track semicolon, press go and there's the data from the track table in the album database.
And we can do the same thing in the scratch database, instead of track here we can put in customer. And select go and there's our little customer table from the scratch data base and under world we can do the same thing, we can type in city like that and press go. And there's the city table from the world data base and that all looks good. So our city application is working just great. Now I'm going to come up here and instead of sid I'm going to type in crud.
CRUD, in all caps /crud lower case .PHP, just like this local host/CRUD/crud.PHP and there's our CRUD application and you can see it's getting the data from the database there. It's looking just great, I can open one of these up and I can see the tracks, say Done. So this is working great. Now I'm going to drag this here into my bookmark bar as well. So now I have SID and I have CRUD, and both of those applications are working.
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There are however a few tweaks we would have made to the product. Firstly some way to fold it up would have benefitted LAN gamers and secondly the use of leatherette for an on-ear design isn't ideal. Essentially after any sustained period of use they can begin to stick, something that doesn't occur with fabric pads.
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"We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet." That was the rather dramatic manner the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States announced its presence on twitter on June 6th, 2014. And within minutes of this post, the handle was buzzing with replies, retweets and follows such that as of time of writing this, there are 738,700 followers hooked up to the account. By launching into the social media realm, the impression is that one of the world's most opaque secret service organizations is set to shed some of its myth and mystique.
What the CIA's entry to twitter confirms is the increasing acceptability of soft power as an instrument of diplomacy and international relations. As an Agency that evokes keen global interest as an instrument of US foreign relations, allowing a peep into its unclassified content via social media is a clear indication of its intention to increase its soft power quotient. It is merely following a growing global trend broadly referred to as Digital Diplomacy. World leaders, diplomats and other international state and non-state actors have now taken to social media in a bid to influence target (and random) publics both in domestic and foreign spheres. No longer are Facebook, Twitter, Instalgram and the likes regarded as the preserve of mostly young persons seeking avenues to socialize and undertake exuberant exchanges. The serious business of influencing, proselytizing and marketing of ideologies, idiosyncrasies, and even inanities is now being conducted in the virtual interconnected world of social media. Even the use of propaganda for war has taken on a new dimension as parties to conflict easily take to twitter as a means of 'one-minute' briefing in telling their side of the story.
To exemplify this, one only needs to take a cursory look at the unfortunate conflagration in Gaza. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority on one hand as well as Israel and Hamas on the other are doing a lot to rev up public support, empathy and sympathy for their individual cause. Amidst the disturbing humanitarian pall draping over the region, there is a huge dose of propaganda oozing from parties to the shelling. Without going into details of the latest confrontation and the accompanying blame game, what is clearly observable are moves by each side to play the victim and portray the other side as the oppressor. This is for instance, why the spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) during the week tweeted on updates on the bloody campaign in Gaza using the hashtag #IsrealUnderFire. On the other side, the deadly toll on civilians occasioned by the bombardment is being maximized by embedded social media operatives as a way to draw the attention of the world to what is clearly a humanitarian crisis. While the missiles and rockets fly across Gaza and Israel, the battle for hearts and minds is raging fiercely on social media.
It is same battle for the hearts and minds of Nigerians and observers of events in the country that must have informed the recent social media presence of the Defence Headquarters which now tweets about its ongoing campaign against Boko Haram insurgency. Hitherto and for much longer, Nigeria's security forces took on the reactionary posture of responding to YouTube posts and other messages by the insurgents, an approach which tended to lend an upper hand to the terrorists in the propaganda battle. Now that the Nigerian military has added soft power dimensions to the anti-terror campaign, it is expected that some mileage will be secured in the battle for the public psyche against insurgency.
Though diplomats and world leaders are invariably influenced by the images and messages presented by conventional media, the instantaneous effect of uncensored and unedited posts on blogs, video channels, online news sites and micro-blogging platforms have a more telling impact as to how and when decisions are made. The proliferation of smart phones and other handy devices powered by Internet access has ensured this. The instant transmission of raw images and messages ubiquitously reverberate shock, disbelief, and outrage which help to galvanize the world into some form of intervention often ostensibly towards truce. Unfortunately, it can also have a converse effect by deepening divisions and entrenching enmities in ways that further fuel conflicts. This is the double edged sword of social media as it relates to war which in itself has been described as diplomacy by other means. But it will amount to sheer folly for world leaders and diplomats to shy away from this consuming influence instead of seeking to put some levers on it by at least maintaining a window for interface in this vastly uncontrollable world.
This is the challenge for state and non-state actors in the global arena today. State officials and organizations deliberately try to influence perceptions of themselves, States and Institutions by foreign publics. This is why a growing number of Heads of States and Governments have embraced twitter (a very key variant of digital diplomacy) in a bid to record positive perceptions on the huge followership they have built for themselves. A 2014 study by Twiplomacy conducted by Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm and released in June reveals that only two African Heads of States feature in the top 50 most followed leaders in the world. These are Uhuru Kenyatta with 456,209 followers on the 47th position and Paul Kagame of Rwanda with 404,332 on the 48th position. Top on this list is President Barack Obama of the USA with over 43million followers. Next is Pope Francis with over 14million followers. In the top ten bracket, there is Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India (just a little shy of 5million/5th position), President Abdullah Gul of Turkey (over 4million/6th position), Sheik Mohammed, Ruler of Dubai and Vice President of the UAE (close to 3million/9th position) and Cristina Kirchner of Argentina (with 2.887, 955 followers/10th position). Apart from President Obama, America's holding in the Twiplomacy rating also strongly reflects on this top 50 listing as the White House official twitter account standing at No. 4 has about 5million followers and the US Department of State stands on position No. 29 with almost one million followers. The total number of followers of the US government on this list is way higher than the cumulative total of others listed. Although the Study concedes that the number of followers is not directly proportional to the level of influence by a leader (for example, the Pope with less followers makes more influence with his tweets than President Obama), it is understandable why America as a State maintains a strong showing in soft power impact across the world. However, it is imperative to note that this is hardly only on account of the twitter presence of its top officials and government departments as its foreign outposts and embassies are known for notable use of soft power to garner positive perceptions for the world's most powerful nation. In Nigeria for instance, the US Embassy and the Consulate in Lagos have embarked on programmes and projects of benefit to Nigerian citizens like the 'Dawn in the Creeks' initiative which are vigorously propagated via social media networks. But the usefulness of social media as a veritable vehicle for soft power cannot be gainsaid.


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I have full access to both databases, but clearly a MySQL dump file isn't going to import cleanly into Postgres. Are there any good step-by-steps for migrating from MySQL to Postgres?
There are a few MySQL -> PostgreSQL migration resources linked from the PostgreSQL wiki. I've never tried migration with Redmine though.
PostgreSQL 8.2 is quite old now, is it provided by a hosting provider, or can you use a more recent version?
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I've fluctuated between a PR of 8-5 lately, but I'm not in Yahoo.
I would say it helps to be in Yahoo. I just don't have the three hundred to plow into it. Year after year.
Secondly-I hope Martininbuster can give me some information on how you determine your PR on Google?
Really appreciate the help-thanks
However, like anything else you need to do some homework. To maximize the traffic potential you really need to put some thought behind the copywrite of the description so to target not just directory results but the search engine "web sites and pages" as well. Good copy also means a better chance of the editor accepting your listing "as is".
Targeting the wrong phrases is the difference between getting your $300 worth and a lost leader.
Note: If you have a Dmoz.org listing already for the page it is best to use this. The more precise, duplicate listings you have also means the more relevant you become with metacrawlers top listing for which Yahoo results are often used.
You have to have a UK site to get into Yahoo UK for free though. You can also still suggest a second category, which is a nice way to get a site listed in the main Yahoo non-regional hierarchy, in addition to the UK regional listing.
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Secondly-I hope Martininbuster can give me some information on how you determine your PR on Google?
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Commissioners in Upshur County talked about a potential increase in the 911 fee Thursday morning at their meeting.
The fee, which would go from $2.65 to $4.50 a month, would ensure no programs in the county would have to be cut.
Because of increased operational and personnel costs, more money needs to be generated in order to keep the 911 center up and running.
The fee hasn't been raised since 2005.
Since then, the 911 center has gone from one dispatcher on duty to three.
That means the county needs more money from somewhere to keep it fully staffed.
Another problem is that the revenue from that fee comes from landline phone use. Because more people use cell phones, that revenue has gone down.
If there isn't an increase in the 911 fee, the extra money will have to come from the general county tax revenue.
If that's the case, some programs would have to be cut.
"That's an option commission will look at, but we cannot make cuts in our 911 staff and operate efficiently and meet the call volumes, so the cuts cannot be made to the 911 center. So, if cuts are made, they'll be made to other agencies, whether it be the public library, youth camp, pool facilities, parks and recreation programs," said Willie Parker, Upshur County Administrator.
There will be a public hearing on the issue on February 14th at 11:00 a.m. in the county commission room at the courthouse.
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A reader asked if you can be ticketed for parking in the fire lane areas at a local business. The reader mentioned going to Meijer on M-66 and seeing several cars parked close to the front of the building where there are signs that indicate that that area is a fire lane and parking is prohibited.
Yes, you can be ticketed for parking in a fire lane, even if you are in your car waiting to pick someone up.
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The Michigan Vehicle Code prohibits parking in a fire lane: MCL 257.674 (1) A vehicle shall not be parked, except if necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the following places: (aa) In a place or in a manner that blocks access to a space clearly designated as a fire lane.
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To The Editor: What has happened to a nation that was once "one nation, under God"? When the national day of prayer is now mentioned from our own president, as only "an event"?
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Skip to comments.Lincoln Chafee Endorses B. Hussein Obama
Posted on 02/14/2008 7:50:08 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee is endorsing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. The Rhode Islander told The Associated Press he is endorsing Obama in a conference call Thursday. Chafee left the Republican Party last year and became an independent. He was one of the Senate's most liberal Republicans before he lost his seat in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.
FWIW, Rhode Island's primary is March 4.
And Senator Clinton thought she had the RI primary locked up.
Lincoln who?
Shocked! Shocked I say [not].
An Illinois man claims homosexual sex and drugs with Barack Obama in 1999 while Obama was a state legislator. The guy says he is willing to take a polygraph and challenges Obama to do the same.
Oh, and let me remind those who forgot: the RNC wanted me to donate money to help re-elect Chafee. LOL.
see post 7.
Damn, beat me to it...LOL
Birds of a feather...
Senator Meathead, that's who! :)
The fact that Chafee was ever allowed to call himself republican is evidence of insanity, or inbreeding, in the upper levels of the GOP.
PS: I really like my "Hussein Train" comment. Feel free to use . . .
Must have been hard to hear after the Republicans moved him into the basement storage area (and gave him a can of Raid to kill bugs).
And this is shocking?
So, Weaver, McCain's Senate political director turned to a Dem last year, his CURRENT ad man on his campaign has decided he will support Oprah's Kid too.
I think Jeffords is supporting Obama, after McCain spent months defending him and slamming the Pres and Republicans after Jeffords jumped.
Well, now we know McCain was going to jump, TO TAKE AWAY THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY, could not make up his mind, and Jeffords went.
If John McCain had lost his bid for the nomination, would he have endorsed Clinton or Obama?
OH GOD WE ARE ALL DOOMED NOW, TURN OUT THE LIGHTS THE PARTY IS OVER, CHAFEE HAS ENDORSED OBAMA!!!! LOL, thought I might have some fun with that one.
Weren't Lincoln Chaffee and McCain pals? I know they were voting buddies, cause they sure seemed to vote similarly an awful lot. :D I wonder what McCain did to ole Mr. Chaffee?
He's in good company with a large contingent of FReepers who have also decided to skip down the street following the Obama ice cream truck....
(be sure to have plenty of money with you, kids)
Is there anybody up there in Rhode Island that cares what this whacko says?
Lincoln Chafee: And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Then, other RINOs will join him — Olympia Snowejob, others.
Finally, ultimate RINO McCain will drop out of the race entirely and endorse B. Hussein.
What a revolting year 2008 is turning out to be.
Obama should just admit it is true so that even more Modern Liberals will vote for him over Hillary.
You may not recognize the name because he changed it to "Lincoln Chapstick."
I believe you have my stapler? Mm?
Yeah, Chafee! I'm so happy that the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent all that money in 2006 attacking Chafee's moderate-to-conservative Republican challenger, Steve Laffey, and then trying to prop up Chafee in the general (where he lost by a wide margin) instead of supporting George Allen in VA and Conrad Burns in MT, who lost by less than 1% each.
John Ensign is a good man and a solid conservative Senator, but I have not sent the NRSC a dime since it spent all that money attacking Pat Toomey in 2004, and I likely will never contribute to it ever again. It's a shame that we can't have an organization that can be trusted to spend campaign money wisely to ensure a Republican majority, so we all have to send money to individual candidates that may or may not need the contributions.
Is that the truck with the sign "The Audacity of Dope"?
"An Illinois man claims homosexual sex and drugs with Barack Obama in 1999 while Obama was a state legislator. The guy says he is willing to take a polygraph and challenges Obama to do the same."
Wonder if Mike Rogers from Blogactive(homosexual activist that only goes after Republicans) will 'out' Obama? (eye roll)
Rhode Island twit.
Think of all the money the RNC wasted on him in the last election.
In the immortal words of "neon Deion" Sanders:
I'd guess for the same reason General Benedict Arnold sold out to the Brits.
For all the wrong reasons.
Chaffee is from the McCain wing of the Republican Party, where Liberal Republican is not good enough. They really want a Liberal Democrat. See also Olympia Snowe.
The right reason to want Obama is to avoid having to oppose a Liberal Republican for 4 years who will destroy the Party, and because Obama will be easy to oppose and stymie.
OUCH! Well if that isn't an indictment to his RINO friend McCain, I don't know what is!
It's time to dig in folks. Hussein Obama will be the nomination and will for all the wrong reasons be a considerably difficult opponent.
Speaking as a very frightened Brit, I scares the you know what out of me to think this paticular liberal could be your next Commander in Chief.
Please do defeat him for all our sakes.
LOL! Absolutely!
What Chafee really wants is to have Obama's baby.
No surprise there. Chafee was always a liberal.
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Lincoln Chaffee?
That's not a name, that's a punchline!
That little snot needs to be thoroughly b*tchslapped, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, until he's whimpering "I was never a Republican, I didn't even stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, I'm a fraud and a phony!"
Hey, I didn't write it or claim it was accurate. I just posted the link to let people decide for themselves. Personally I think it looks like the work of Hillary.
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Optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of specific aspects of architecture is possible and can be implemented in both physical models [in the way hanging chains, membranes and stress induced birefringence has been used in the past] and digital simulations.
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Barneys New York cedar shoe trees maintain your shoes by helping to preserve the shape, prevent creases, and extend the life of the shoe.
Sizing Info: Small: 6.5 W to 8.5 M. Medium: 8 W to 10 M. Large: 9.5 W to 11.5 M. Extra Large: 11 W to 13 M.
Style # 103235113
The Barneys New York collection includes thoughtful, indispensable pieces highly regarded for their superior construction and timeless design. These men's and women's clothing, shoes, and accessories are enviable, seasonless wardrobe staples.
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