Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

I’ve just finished listening to a piece from ITConversations with Adam Bosworth from MySQL Users Conference.

Building a system that is capable of handling one billion transactions a day is easier than it sounds. That is Adam Bosworth’s view and he should know because he works for a company that has managed to achieve this level of scale on a simple architecture based on commodity hardware and simple brute force algorithms. Adam covers a lot of ground in this presentation that focuses on the success of the web, the scalability of simplicity and the emergence of the information server.

It’s not always about finding a simple solution to a complex problem, occasionally it’s about simplifying the problem. Whereas complex solutions are brittle and break, simple solutions just tend to work. HTML, HTTP, RSS and ATOM all fall in this category; simple solutions that have been widely adopted and work well. Adam believes it is time for database vendors to reflect on how they can provide an open, simple data model to easily server up information similar to the way a web server delivers content to the browser. Delivering an information server that is capable of federating information across the web, intelligently caching and scaling linearly is the next big database challenge.

It’s quite an interesting talk, and Adam has a lot of funny stories on the way. He concludes more or less that the forthcoming of RSS and ATOM will revolutionize the way we use, view and see the Internet much the same way HTML did. Remarks that others have put forth aswell (guys like Dare Obassanjo and Sam Ruby). The argument is backed up by the fact that the upcoming Windows Vista will include a Common Feed Datastore so applications can share RSS/ATOM feed subscriptions, and extensions to Internet Explorer (IE 7) to manage them. Microsoft recently proposed an extension to the RSS specification, which will allow one the treat an RSS feeds content as a list instead of a random collection of items. This too will help adoption and usage in various client applications that need a list concept to function properly.

The next years will be interesting as ever.

My brother has just got word that he’s been accepted for University where he eventually will be Civil Engineer in Industry and Production.

Congratulations

Cool! Live streaming from the Imagine Cup finals in Okinawa, Japan. Go check it out.
I’m currently watching the video from the welcome party.

theSpoke TV

I’ve just received the Visual Studio 2005 Beta Experience Newsletter, and in it they write:

The Visual Studio Tools for Office Tour comes to a town near you.Save the date!
…
Denmark, Copenhagen – Sep 21

Checked Microsoft DK’s event page, but so far nothing is listed. I guess more information will be available later…

Jakob points me in a direction I’ve been before regarding sessions dealing with Programming Language innovation at the PDC. It’s Luca Bolognese who writes about the sessions his group are involved in presenting. They deal with:

• C# 3.0
• VB.NET – the next generation
• The .NET Integrated Query Framework

I’ll try to attend these, because the topics dealt with are an interest of mine, and of course to hopefully be able to tell Jakob something he doesn’t already know

Paschal L. writes about his experiences in using VS 2005 Beta 2:

Unless you have a lot of time, I don’t recommend to jump quickly on the Beta 2, or only if you start a project from scratch.

Some of my fellow students and I have discussed using VS 2005 Beta 2 and Team System for our project next semester. The benefit of that is manyfold, we would gain experience in VS 2005, .NET 2.0, Team System, Team Foundation Server, etc., and would benefit from the productivity enhanced features of Visual Studio. Some friends have expressed doubt that the Beta was good enough quality to bet on. Maybe Pascal’s comments will help convince…

[Via Paschal L.]

I’ve just completed my registration for the PDC 2005 in LA after receiving the necessary info from Hilmar from MS DK.
From the information at hand it looks like all the attendees from EMEA will travel together from Amsterdam on the 10th of September on a Microsoft chartered flight. Wicked!

It’s exciting! I can’t wait. Been reading up on the sessions, so far I think my focus will be Indigo and C# 3.0. But my final session plan is pending, since the actual time slots for the sessions haven’t been announced yet.

Alas, more to come later, you can count on it.

Get all the latest and greates on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) on TeamSystemRocks.
They feature a lot of good stuff on Team System, and has recently launched a whole slew of videos including tutorials.

Looks very good!

What can I say? My actions are solely my responsibility

Kristian showed up today while we were chilling at Tinus’, proudly showing off his new gear – a cool t-shirt, a Microsoft student partner backpack and a Microsoft student partner cap.

Is Microsoft starting to look more friendly on Open Source, and Linux in particular? Or is Kristian just hip didido on with the beat? Guess the picture speaks for it self

[Via Qte.dk]

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