Sam Gentile's Blog

It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts...

IronRuby/DLR/CLR

• John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here
• Meanwhile Jim posts on the video as well as two insightful topics: The One True Object (Part 1) and Part 2
• Harry has a good take on the "Silverlight CLR"
• Jesse takes one look at the Silverlight class map and says, "Damn. Flash is dead." This is an incredible technology map and shows the depth of the platform behind the technology

O/RM, NHibernate/Rhino Mocks/Castle

• NHibernate 1.2 was released according to Oren
• He also tackles one of my all time favorite statements: ODBC is not an API
• Also from the guy who rarely posts is a link to Alex's posts on Windsor Patterns
• And last, but not least, he has released Rhino Mocks 3.1. And on the 7th day he...
• Billy has an Integrate It! Coding Contest using Castle Project

Agile/Software Development

1. Jeremy states Not checking in code should make you feel unclean. Amen. Break each pair's/developer's stories into manageable tasks of which you can check in fairly frequently. And of course, not having a test for a particular piece of code should really make you feel unclean

Service-Oriented Architecture

1. One of the best parts of being an MVP for Solutions Architect is that I get to spend time with Gregor Hohpe. In this presentation, he takes a look at the architectural aspects of SOA
2. Arnon has an article: Business Intelligence and SOA: The Article