Humble Abode

NDepend

Check out NDepend

"NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates reports containing design quality metrics, warnings and diagrams"

VS 2005 Team System Design for Operation Integration Kit

If you have been playing around with VSTS, and want to automate the process of generating work items/trouble tickets in VSTS, check out the Operations Integration Kit. A very useful tool to have.

Download the
   Visual Studio 2005 Team System Design for Operations Integration Kit

Naive Prezzo - Is it really a naive classifier?

Last evening (20 April 2006), I was at the SQL Server usergroup meeting.

Prior to the meeting, was having a interesting discussion with David, who was sharing with me and Yasmeen how he progressed from being a chemist to doing IT-related work.

The first presentation was by Sukhdev, who shared with the audience on how to build data warehouses, and OLAP functionalities in SQL Server 2000.  My prezzo was on next, and I had a fantastic time sharing with all the key ideas behind Naive Bayes classifier and how this relates to using the Naive Bayes algorithm in doing classification tasks in SQL Server 2005.

Title:
Harnessing the power of Predictive Modeling using Naive Bayes Algorithm

Sypnosis:
In this talk, we will show how we can make use of the Naive Bayes algorithm provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) for use in predictive modeling. We will first get everyone up to speed with basic probability theory, and use this to jumpstart everyone's understanding of the Naive Bayes algorithm. Next, we will demonstrate how to build a data mining model based on Naive Bayes. We will then show how to query the model using DMX.

If anyone is interested in the slide decks, do drop me a beep.

INETA Live! and Code Camps

Check out INETA's March 2006 newsletter
   http://www.ineta.org/newsletters/2006_03a.htm

Highlights:
INETA Live! Series
1) INETA Live! Series (starts 22 March 2006, Wednesday)
2) Code Camps

"Code Camps have enjoyed unprecedented success over the past two years as an informal way to bring developers together to share code. Have you held a Code Camp in your area and want to improve the next one? Would you like to learn how to organize the first Code Camp in your area?"

Anyone interested to put together a Code Camp in SIN?
Send me your thots..

Source Fource - Power of the Fource!

If anyone knows how we can get the entire set these collectibles , do drop me a beep.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/sfbio/

Would the event come to Singapore soon?

Elevator pitch on why we need workflow technology

In the good old days of dotcoms, the elevator pitch is often practiced by aspiring entrepreneurs to share with VCs why they should invest in their start-ups within a short time frame.

Personally, I think besides that purpose, if one knows his/her work well, the "elevator pitch" simply means being able to concisely explain to peers/friends/management/etc an idea/technology/etc. If one truly internalize knowledge, one does not need a few hours to explain it. A few minutes would probably bring the necessary idea across...

One of the most common question people asked me during WF presentations is why should we make use of workflow technoloy? Why don't we just rely on coding to achieve the desired workflows?

Check out
   The Elevator Speech: Why Workflow, by Nick Malik

an interesting and concise list on why one should use workflow technology.
 

Travel Booking Application using WF

If you have been looking for a good complete example on how WF can be used to build your application,

Check out
  http://www.windowsworkflow.net/Modules/MoreArticles.aspx?tabindex=0&mid=64

"This sample shows a Windows Form application that simulates a travel booking scenario. The majority of the logic associated with the form is provided by a workflow. In this example, the Windows Form serves as the host process for the workflow runtime as well as the implementation of the interface that the HandleExternalEvent and CallExternalMethod activities in the workflow are authored against..... "

Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling

Check out
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/threatmodeling/acetm/

on the Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling tool created by the  Microsoft Application Consulting & Engineering (ACE) team

"
Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling tool allows non-security subject matter experts to enter already known information including business requirements and application architecture which is then used to produce a feature-rich threat model. Along with automatically identifying threats, the tool can produce valuable security artifacts such as:

- Data access control matrix
- Component access control matrix
- Subject-object matrix
- Data Flow
- Call Flow
- Trust Flow
- Attack Surface
- Focused reports"

Declarative Model Of WF

Check out this excellent article by  Don Box and Dharma Shukla on

"Simplify Development With The Declarative Model Of Windows Workflow Foundation"

From my conversations with many folks recently, it seems that WF is gaining momentum....
A good friend was sharing that there are already folks developing custom activities for specific industry as value-added.

If you have not check it out yet, it's time..

Ink Explorer

I remembered last year - I attended MaungMaung excellent presentation of how to make use of the "ink" in tabletPC application development.

Recently, I saw in article in MSDN about the Ink Explorer. Check it out if you are into tabletPC application develpment.

Stored Procedure Object Interface Layer (SPOIL)

" Transform your code from an object-orientation to a relational paradigm and back with the stored procedure object interface layer "

Pretty interesting read on object-relational transformation using stored procedures..
Check out
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/SPOIL.asp

Will definitely check it out after April series of presentations.