Laurence Moroney

Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. Over the series, we'll look at the following: Your First Silverlight Application Understanding XAML Understanding the Blend series of Products Building Silverlight applications using Aptana on the Mac Building Silverlight applications using Visual Studio Express on the PC Programming Silverlight 1.0 with JavaScript And whatever else you'd like -- send feedback! So let's get started with the first and most simple application -- a 'Hello World' in Silverlight. You need no special tools for this. Just n... (more)

Best Practices in Migrating from .NET to Linux

For many businesses, the Web storefront is the only point of contact for customers, and for others it's a major one. As such, it's important that this architecture meets the needs of your business, not just from a technology point of view but from a strategic one. No business likes to have an important asset be vulnerable to the whims of a particular vendor, and this is particularly true... (more)

Running ASP.NET Applications on WebLogic Easier Than You May Think!

When WLDJ wanted someone to take a First Look at Visual MainWin for J2EE, we turned to interoperability expert Laurence Moroney - coauthor of a forthcoming book on Web services security and a senior architect in a major financial services house in New York City. In the course of assessing the product, Laurence in fact became more and more involved - in the end, on a staff basis - with th... (more)

SOA Web Services And Best Practices For .NET WebSphere Interoperability

Mixed-mode deployments where the data center has a mixture of different technology platforms, hardware, and software and where those platforms interoperate together to deliver software applications is the norm rather than an exception. Experience shows that it's a challenge getting applications to run across a diverse array of software and hardware platforms with acceptable availability... (more)

Interop Update: A Fast Track to Rehost Your .NET Applications

You already know the sheer productivity advantages of developing applications that run on the .NET framework using the Visual Studio.NET IDE, and have likely developed and deployed one or more of these in the years since they became generally available. But did you know that you can double your market reach for .NET Web and server applications by rehosting them, without major modificatio... (more)