Prism 4.0

With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0, naturally my thoughts went to the future of Prism. The Simplifying patterns & practices blog posted an entry of what is in store.

Prism, A Look Ahead

Of all the listed focus items for the Prism update, I’m excited about MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) the most. [...]

Continuing Orchestra ERP

I am taking cue from Jeffrey Palermo’s Onion Architecture. It is designed with the premise that infrastructure changes over time and so should be external to the application’s core.

I may even organize my ProtoStack / Orchestra ERP namespaces into something like DomainModel, DomainServices, ApplicationServices.

Also, I am considering a process where data layer integration is developed later in the [...]

Less is More in Accounting

I’ve given more thought about my side project’s application features after re-reading Getting Real by 37Signals. So, I went around and looked for Web 2.0 Accounting Apps and found this list of “the most awesome accounting and invoicing applications.” This list represents the anti-Quickbooks crowd, where the point is to simplify accounting software use and [...]