My secret project: Alexandria

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words:

Just to head off the obvious, this is a sample application, not a real world project.

Three brownie points to the first guy who figure out why I posted this, though.

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01 Feb 2010
10:20 AM

Luke

Maybe you should call this iAlexandria?

01 Feb 2010
10:21 AM

Krzysztof Kozmic

You decided to play with Kindle SDK

01 Feb 2010
10:39 AM

Kishork

To demonstrate CQS: Command-query separation?

01 Feb 2010
10:40 AM

Set

You'll write a new book? if only~~

01 Feb 2010
10:47 AM

Poul

You are missing wish-list functionality in amazon

01 Feb 2010
10:51 AM

Xerxes

you're trying out SketchFlow...?

01 Feb 2010
11:03 AM

Robert

HI Xerxes, looks lot much more like "Balsamiq" :-)

01 Feb 2010
11:05 AM

Robert

Recommendation engine for (technical) books, based on collective intelligence + considering the stuff you already read ..

01 Feb 2010
11:22 AM

Rinat Abdullin

Filling in the gap in the CQS implementations, I hope.

I'd really love to see that one. WPF+NH+RQ in a Feature-based extensible architecture?

01 Feb 2010
11:29 AM

Harry M

You are moving house and have so many shelves of technical books you've decided to create your own version of netflix as it's easier than hiring trucks to move them all.

That or you're planning to get rich off the ipad.

01 Feb 2010
11:45 AM

Samnang

You are trying to build personal ebook manager :-)

01 Feb 2010
12:05 PM

Joe

Is it a brand new RTFM application?

01 Feb 2010
12:18 PM

To allow people to search books and purchase them upon finding content in the book they are looking for.

Thus growing your wealth and stroking your ego.

01 Feb 2010
12:23 PM

Lee Dumond

You're building NetFlix, only for books instead of movies. BookFlix? NetBooks?

01 Feb 2010
12:25 PM

Lee Dumond

I'd also point out that Alexandria was home to the world's first library. More evidence in favor of the NetFlix for Books idea.

01 Feb 2010
12:50 PM

Dmitry

Is it a sample application that shows how to build scalable applications?

01 Feb 2010
12:59 PM

Corey

To demonstrate your method of achieving a 3-tier architecture.

01 Feb 2010
13:01 PM

Dennis Doomen

Because you plan to provide an open-source reference implementation for a high-performance web site based on CQS and DDD.

01 Feb 2010
13:18 PM

Guilherme Guimarães

Because you are looking for help on it?

01 Feb 2010
13:20 PM

Mike

You're writing a new book for Manning, probably about nHibernate web apps, and you're sample app is a netflix like system for books.

01 Feb 2010
13:26 PM

Jason Meckley

scenario for your next MSDN article?

01 Feb 2010
13:31 PM

Ayende Rahien

Jason,

You get all the brownie points!

01 Feb 2010
14:38 PM

Matt

Oh, I thought you were announcing NHibernate for Balsamiq... In response to that critics claiming that EF had better integration with popular existing tools and a pretty designer.

01 Feb 2010
16:44 PM

smurf

the title is a little bit misleading, now, it isn't secret anymore ;)

01 Feb 2010
17:37 PM

Set

So when will this article get published? :o

01 Feb 2010
17:57 PM

Shadi Marei

This is not a secret project, its already there published on GitHub, i noticed it was there 2 days ago :)

01 Feb 2010
18:18 PM

Bunter

Don't you think MS guys will find the specialization of the application a bit... ironic?

01 Feb 2010
18:24 PM

Ayende Rahien

specialization of the application ?

02 Feb 2010
14:19 PM

Kyle

That's cool. I had a very similar idea, although it would allow you to plug-in different data providers. My idea is that libraries would hire someone (me, most likely) to produce a plug-in that allows people to interface with their systems and rate books and things, and show up in the app. It was much too large a project just for me though. :)

03 Feb 2010
09:41 AM

Ayende Rahien

No, it is a joke in Hebrew.

06 Feb 2010
22:10 PM

Brendan

Sweet, I have been waiting for this Ayende, and am eager to see how you approach it.

Thanks in advance...

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