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

Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design

• Two Chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning Available – Mike Cohn, the master of Agile Estimation and planning has made two chapters from his upcoming book available
• Make It Easy to Refactor – Jak gives some tips to make sure your code is in a good state to be refactored with safety and confidence
• Typemock Isolator 5.3.5 is out! – New features include a new API for invoking inaccessible methods and events as well as custom verification.

SOA/Azure

• WSCF.blue – Paste as Schema – The Contract-First design tool has picked up the ability to infer an XML schema from pasted text
• Article: Patterns from “SOA Design Patterns” by Thomas Erl, Part 2 – InfoQ continues to publish patterns from the new book. Today, they present Chapter 16, Service Governance Patterns, comprising a number of 8 patterns.
• Utah Code Camp – Fall 2009 – Aaron has slides available on two sessions: Service Virtualization/MSE and Windows Azure: A New Era of Cloud Computing
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/21/2009+ – The latest roundup of Azure links from Roger Jennings

ASP.NET and Web Programming

• Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book – The VWD folks have obtained permission to offer four chapters as free downloadable PDFs

Learning

• .NET University is Live – Via Charlie Calvert, “Doug Turnure and Mark Dunn just reopened the .NET University site.  This resource includes approximately 40 developer-oriented presentation kits that include slides, speaker notes, demos, demo scripts and webcast videos.”