Sam Gentile's Blog

I have spent a lot of time through the night and some today to try to get my personal blog in order after the Mac options didn't pan out. We have a really important, large external release going out to two external banks next Friday but we stopped this week's Iteration to fix bugs that had been found. In XP, you don't keep going when you have bugs, you stop and fix them.

VSTS/TFS

• TFS is still way too hard to install. The install that my experienced IT guy started last week finally got done last night and took him roughly 16 hours of work time to install including SQL Server 2005 Standard. That is still way too long. It still feels like you have to have a cigarette after it is installed.
• To "breadboard" TFS, I am putting in my Workflow Architectural Spikes. More later.

CLR/Rotor

• The only other guy doing this stuff, my bud Jason, has a great post Dissassmbling .NET - Appendix A

Software Architecture

• I can't believe Ent Lib 3.0 is out already! [via David]

LINQ/NHibernate/O/RM

• Steve collects some of the LINQ to NHibernate links. I think NHibernate is inevitable for us (in a good way)
• Bill McCafferty has been posting some awesome stuff on our sister site, including NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET, NHibernate Performance Tuning. Check him out!

WCF/Indigo/BPM/Workflow

• Good news in the WCF Performance Comparison; WCF offers significant performance gains over the legacy stacks
• Enabling Kerberos in IIS
• David Chappell published an excellent paper on BPM offerings from Microsoft

I'm rocking out to After Forever by Black Sabbath from the album Master of Reality