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MS Open Sources the Halo Framework!

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that they would be contributing "Project Orleans" to their open-source initiative.

Project Orleans is built on .NET

  • "Project Orleans" is the framework that powers "Halo 4" and is used extensively in the Azure cloud
  • It's REALLY good at scaling
  • Based on the "Actor Model" -- Concurrent computing objects that can communicate with one another
  • Unlike Classes... "Orleans Actors" are automatically instantiated and they ALWAYS exist.

    • The Open Sourcing will be available by early 2015

    • Microsoft Research will release the code under an MIT license
    • Posted on GitHub
      • MVVM

      In 2004, Martin Fowler published an article about a pattern named Presentation Model (PM). MVVM is identical to Fowler's Presentation Model, in that both patterns feature an abstraction of a View, which contains a View's state and behavior.

      Fowler introduced Presentation Model as a means of creating a UI platform-independent abstraction of a View, whereas John Gossman introduced MVVM as a standardized way to leverage core features of WPF to simplify the creation of user interfaces.

      In that sense, I consider MVVM to be a specialization of the more general PM pattern.

      Since 2005, MVVM has become more general and more frameworks.

      Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

      Guest: Louis Maresca

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