Software Enthusiast - KOY

Simply put, interoperability is the process of allowing codes or assembly written within the ASP Dot Net Framework to be called by unmanaged code or Win32 Apps. To bring this closer to real life situation -  I am part of a team working on a Delphi based - Windows Messaging centric - closer to rocket science code - kind of application. The whole thing looked like magic to me at my first encounter and I could not  imagine anybody sitting down and coming up with that kind of architecture. Over time, I realized it was not as difficult or magical as I initially thought but nonetheless, I still give kudos to the initial architects of the system - the guys are really smart and to boil it down, it comes to doing asynchronous programming  where execution of certain codes is not directly at the instigation of the user but rather based on events controlled by the operating system and cleverly managed by the Windows messaging system as well as COM implementation. I am actually...

I am back! Yes, back with a bang! Writing is not an easy virtue, it requires dedication and hard work. I moved over my blog from a physical data center to Amazon Web services and I had to "shut down" ( of course, I had no option) my blog while the transition was going in. Honestly, it has not been an easy ride but as usual, that is the most interesting thing of being in this game - I mean profession - always facing challenges on a daily basis and looking for ways of not succumbing to them. I read a lot about the cloud thing and visualization and again, I could not get my head around all the buzz words and the technical jargon. I finally decided to "play" around with the concept when the lease at the data center location I was using expired. I contemplated hosting "myself" in my basement and getting dedicated IP addresses or better still, subscribing to one the thousands of ASPs offering the platform and mash-up of tools I was interested i...