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MVX Multiple Deployment Support

Following on from the MVX Object Pipeline Demo Configuration screen cast here's another one that covers how you can set up multiple deployment scenarios and use the same 3D scene for operations,...

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August 22, 2010
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MVX Object Pipeline Demo Configuration

The screen casts keep coming. Here's one following on from the Pipeline Class Diagram video running through the configuration of an object server....

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August 21, 2010
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Object Pipeline Class Diagram

Here's another screen cast related to MVX. This one covers the how objects can be modelled in MVX as opposed to using the traditional SCADA tag based approach....

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August 20, 2010
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Managing Complexity with MVX Object Server

The following screencast uses a demo program as a background to describing the benefits of the MVX Object Server product that we are working on....

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August 19, 2010
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Testing Posterous Integration

Man, I haven't blogged for a while and actually want to get back into it. Being a developer by nature as well as by profession, I often get into the rut of not letting people know what Torq has being...

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August 12, 2010
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Tom DeMarco: Compelled to Control?

[]( I came across the following article by Tom DeMarco via the Coding Horror blog: Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?...

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July 20, 2009
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Action Events in .NET

The Async Pattern used in .NET 1.x and 2.0 code always annoyed me because of the excessive coding noise it introduced. The new support in .NET 3.x in relation to lamdas (convenient delegate or...

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December 4, 2008
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Torq FxCop Setup

FxCop is a static analysis tool from Microsoft that checks software source code for conformance to the Microsoft .NET framework’s design guidelines....

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December 4, 2008
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Modbus Driver and Rewrite Decisions

There’s an informal definition for Legacy Software that comes up time to time that cuts to the core of the matter: Legacy software is software that actually works....

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September 28, 2008
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