Archive for August, 2009

The Importance of Context

Posted on August 22nd, 2009 by aaron
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The importance of context was brought jarringly to my attention the other day. This week was my intern’s last week, and as such he needed to fill out a “self evaluation” for HR. The first part of the eval was a simple 5-column table: various categories for evaluation, 3 boxes for “Did Not Meet”, “Met”, [...]

Say Hello to My Little Internet

Posted on August 20th, 2009 by aaron
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Recently I’ve been thinking about options for exposing an application automation API for inter process integration scenarios. For example, a desktop application that exposes the ability for other applications to programmatically query information from it and/or invoke commands. I also had a few requirements. Whatever I choose should:

Let me inject core application services (or higher [...]