I think we are starting to notice this effect in the small on a project I am working on. It's not a database shared by multiple applications (though we certainly have way too many of those too), but one shared by multiple "services" - services in the sense Udi Dahan describes, which seems to me to be kind of like aggregate roots in DDD.
- Chris Bilson
I've been trying to follow this advice for the past few weeks. It's really hard because there are so many distractions right now, but I think it's already starting to produce some tangible results.
- Chris Bilson
A kanban is used to make claims against the productive capacity of some resource. If I have a kanban, I can give it to you in exchange for an object or process of real value. The value of a kanban depends partly on time. The most relevant temporal data about a kanban are: * time of creation * time of redemption * time of delivery …from which we calculate lead time and cycle time. A regular kanban represents a commitment–a real claim against real resources. When a kanban is exchanged, it is with an expectation of certainty that the work order will be satisfied.
- Chris Bilson
Describes how to use Excel Solver to create macros, design a macro and working with constraints and so on The Excel Solver is an Excel add-in. This article also discusses the Algorithm and Methods used by Excel Solver.
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Microsoft Excel Solver uses the Generalized Reduced Gradient (GRG2) Algorithm for optimizing nonlinear problems. This algorithm was developed by Leon Lasdon, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Allan Waren, of Cleveland State University....
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Today we shipped the September CTP of F# !!!! Evviva !! Read this blog post about it. To celebrate I decided to share one of my several F# project. It might make for a good sample; sort of a crash course on F#. This application downloads stock prices,
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Jomo Fisher--F# is about conciseness. Consider the interview question that asks you to reverse a singly-linked-list. I’ve been asked this question twice in interviews and even the cleanest implementation in the interviewer’s chosen language was long and
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PowerCommands is a Visual Studio extension created with the Visual Studio SDK that provides many useful additional menu command functions within the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
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Several other top players in the retirement-income market offer funds, each with its own spin.Charles Schwab Products: Three Monthly Income funds. Underlying Investments: Schwab and Laudus stock and bond fund
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