SOA again, 2 new blogs to read

On wednesday, I had to return SOA und Webservices in der Praxis of Herbert Burbiel to the bib. Unfortunately, there was a reservation on this book. Anyway, I wouldn't have the time to test this promising ASP.NET-world. I'm really astonished how easy it is to write a webservice or -client with .NET - not a great difference to a normal windows forms application. So, the book is great; however, it uses examples of .NET and Java and makes every step (write a client, write a service, make a db-connection) twice, if not thrice (Java, C# and VB.NET). Actually that showed me that the .NET-way is the right one for me ;)

On my journeys in the web, I recently found two great blogs about WPF (Windows Forms - someone needs that anymore?), or better say two great minds writing about WPF: John Gossman and Josh Smith. See Karl Shifflett (not John Gossman...) talking about MVVM here - I love that guy :) (more to come about MVVM soon!).

Book review "SOA?" and Ranorex

I recently finished (actually "flew over") the SOA-book: too academic and packed with stuff I don't bother. So don't waste your time with that book.

Today, I installed Ranorex: a GUI automation testing tool which can generate C#-code (yes! no scripting-bullshit like AutoIt or Workspace Macro Pro). With that, you can easily record test cases and elaborate them enhancing the generated code. One day and I managed to make a setup-test for the VENTIlogic: start WEINMANNsupport, select automatic port-search, create a new patient with !!!random!!! name, start the import, after import start WEINMANNadjust, connect to the device via automatic port-search, load "Werkseinstellungen" and change some parameters. Did I already mentioned the best? You can validate the results - great!

I hate select case

*Gähn* the SOA-book (SOA?) is sooo booooring. The business-part is too big. I fought to page 117 of 390 and no software in sight. I'll give it a try at least till 16.12. - on that day I have to return it to the library.