April 2005 - Jim Johnson's Blog

  • Suggestion box

    I've had some good suggestions for posts come on the comments so far. It struck me that I should encourage that, so here's my suggestion box topic. Please post comments on some topic that you'd like me to discuss. There no guarantee that I'll get to any...
  • Injecting Transactedness

    As our team's primary goal is to promote ubiquity of transaction use, some of us have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the problems associated both with adding in new types of transacted resources, especially transacted variants of currently non...
  • A peek at Longhorn: how TxF integrates

    I've written before about the underlying principles behind our transaction management work: our aim is to provide a ubiquitous transaction service, that makes the use of transactions a natural fit for applications seeking reliability or improved concurrency...
  • What I'm reading at the moment

    I've recently finished Alfred Bester's “The Stars, My Destination”. I'd heard about it for years, but realized that I'd never read it. Ok, its 50 years old, so a little dated -- but I thought it was still a good read. Actually, I found the...
  • The two sayings in my office

    Anyone who has been to my office has probably noticed that there are two quotes up on my whiteboard. I keep them there as reminders, because I think they capture the boundaries of this space wonderfully. [Both are quotes -- post a comment if you know...
  • Telling when a transaction is done -- DependentTransaction

    In the last article I talked about the issue that, for safety, a transaction manager should know that an application has completed its actions before allowing a request to commt to successfully proceed. This validation has been part of COM+, rather than...