Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

Agile

• Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be: Scott Ambler talks about his new ebook; The goal of the
  Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for primetime.
• How TDD and Pairing Increase Production
• Recomended Agile Books - This post is a compilation of recommended Agile books by various Agilists. The recommendations try to cover the entire spectrum of process, people and technology related to Agile. The idea is to make the process of Agile adoption easier and fruitful

 

CSD/BizTalk/WF/Azure Services Framework/Distributed Systems

• A Queue Isn't An Implementation Detail - Amen! I repeat what Udi said., "A queue isn’t an implementation detail. It’s the primary architectural abstraction of a distributed system.
• BizTalk 2009 Posters - Runtime Architecture + More
• My good friend Tomas has a great write up on the new WF 4 designer - I agree 100%
• ESB Guidance is now ESB Toolkit - Built on BizTalk 2009 and now a supported MSDN like product (versus CodePlex)
• BizTalk Cloud Adapter is Coming
• Updated BizTalk 24x7 Site
• Service Virtualization with the Managed Services Engine
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/25/2009+
• My good friend Shy Cohen blogs on An Economic View of Cloud Computing and More
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ASP.NET/AJAX

• ASP.NET MVC and T4 Templates 
• Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: A Look at JSON Serialization

Castle ActiveRecord

• Configuration Castle ActiveRecord 2 - Mostly a link so I can remember

CLR/BCL

• What's New in the BCL  in .NET 4 Beta 1
• SSCLI 2.0 Internals

Silverlight

• Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend, and Visual Studio Land

Entity Framework

• POCO in the Entity Framework: Part 1 - The Experience
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/19/2009+

Software Architecture

• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects (Webcast series)
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