Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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Jeremy, as always, has a lot of interesting things to say in his latest Train of Thought . I agree with most of what he said, in particular with evolutionary design, as Steve Eichert and I practiced it at Algo . It is important to not "allow your design thinking and abstractions get ahead of your...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence my titling this list as "inessential"...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers and...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories over...
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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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I just came across this nugget on Ward's Wiki that is all too true of what I see many so-called "Agile" people do today: A dialog between two CowOrker s: A : Is that the new IDE? B : This is it! A : Man I grew up with the D addyWarbucks M egaEditor, ever since Version 4. Is this the one...
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I just came across this nugget on Ward's Wiki that is all too true of what I see many so-called "Agile" people do today: A dialog between two CowOrker s: A : Is that the new IDE? B : This is it! A : Man I grew up with the DaddyWarbucks MegaEditor, ever since Version 4. Is this the one with...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just no...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. Revisiting all this stuff it absolutely blows me away how productive I was in 2002 and 2003, when the CLR and .NET...
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There may be some new readers that are not aware of my old blogs on samgentile.com, dotnetweblogs and radio back in the day. In short, I have been blogging and writing on .NET since 2000. This post lists my publications and articles over the years. The next post will attempt to gather my most popular...
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As most of you and the VSTS team know, I have been posting on TFS and VSTS for the better part of two years no w. I have been meaning to post on the VSTS ship. As Rob announced , TFS shipped yesterday and is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads! I spent some really good quality time with my two pals...
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As most of you and the VSTS team know, I have been posting on TFS and VSTS for the better part of two years no w. I have been meaning to post on the VSTS ship. As Rob announced , TFS shipped yesterday and is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads! I spent some really good quality time with my two pals...
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My coworker and I just flew across country (to Redmond) and we pair programmed a lot of the way at 33,000 feet. We were in a large part of our codebase that utilises CAB. We have been looking at some of the stuff in SCBAT particularly with the CAB folks starting to use Controller classes to allow CAB...
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My coworker and I just flew across country (to Redmond) and we pair programmed a lot of the way at 33,000 feet. We were in a large part of our codebase that utilises CAB. We have been looking at some of the stuff in SCBAT particularly with the CAB folks starting to use Controller classes to allow CAB...
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We have three week Iterations as I spoke of. What this means, is that every three weeks is like a “mini release.” We implement one “feature” or MMF (Minimum Marketable Feature) which is made up of one to N User Stories. On the Monday at the beginning of the Iteration, we have...
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We have three week Iterations as I spoke of. What this means, is that every three weeks is like a “mini release.” We implement one “feature” or MMF (Minimum Marketable Feature) which is made up of one to N User Stories. On the Monday at the beginning of the Iteration, we have a demo of what we did the...
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As many of my readers already know, I am working within an Agile process. As part of that process, we do a lot of TDD and Refactoring . However, doing Continuous Design with Databases is a difficult thing as we are implementing "enough database schema" to satisfy a User Story that we are doing...
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As many of my readers already know, I am working within an Agile process. As part of that process, we do a lot of TDD and Refactoring . However, doing Continuous Design with Databases is a difficult thing as we are implementing "enough database schema" to satisfy a User Story that we are doing...
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I have commented many times on tools on our project, and how we were still using VSS 2005 and not TFS yet. Those posts go into some detail. My team has been driving me nuts to get rid of VSS 2005 (for many multiple corruption problems a day) and to use Subversion. These problems are NOT just problems...
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Reposted from old blog 11/28/05 Not all things are always rosy in an Agile project just because it's Agile-). We like to think that our planning is more realistic with the Planning Game and Release Planning and that we sign up pretty perfectly for only the stories we think we can do in the iteration...
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Reposted from old blog 11/28/05 Not all things are always rosy in an Agile project just because it's Agile-). We like to think that our planning is more realistic with the Planning Game and Release Planning and that we sign up pretty perfectly for only the stories we think we can do in the iteration...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I still promise to have my CAB and Spikes post up real soon-) My Microsoft buddy Joe Stagner takes Stallman down a peg or two-) Chris Frazier links to a Microsoft hot-fix for WinForms designer...
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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about...
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Way too much to do as always. There is a lot that I have seen as interesting and time limits what I can say. Jamie Cansdale is on a tear with his Test With…Coverage , NCover 1.33 + .NET 1.1 , and NCoverExplorer v1.3.1 . Agile Advice on Timeboxing: A Critical Agile Work Practice . He talks about SNL a...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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Yesterday, our project management had a productive meeting with IT on putting up a TFS server for our project. This will really help : Anyway, we’re planning on releasing our TFS Release Candidate in early February (and I mean very early February as long as everything goes as planned). While there will...
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Yesterday, our project management had a productive meeting with IT on putting up a TFS server for our project. This will really help : Anyway, we’re planning on releasing our TFS Release Candidate in early February (and I mean very early February as long as everything goes as planned). While there...
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Mike Swanson blogs : " We released the WinFX January CTP this morning along with some associated Go-Live licenses. As Karsten mentions in his post , there are no changes to WPF between the December and January CTPs, and in fact, they're binary compatible. Here are links to the bits: WinFX Runtime...
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Mike Swanson blogs : " We released the WinFX January CTP this morning along with some associated Go-Live licenses. As Karsten mentions in his post , there are no changes to WPF between the December and January CTPs, and in fact, they're binary compatible. Here are links to the bits: WinFX Runtime...
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So today begun our 12th 3-week Iteration on our Agile project. Our 1st Monday of an Iteration is exhausting. We start with a demo to Business and other interested stakeholders around the globe on all the stories we finished the previous Iteration. We recently got in the habit of doing this as this proves...
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Ok, the confusion is over back on my old .TEXT blog. I tried WordPress . I liked it. However, I recieved a gracious invitation from Scott Belleware and Brendan Tompkins via email to join the CodeBetter community. Based on messages from their/our community, they felt my proper home was here. I agree....
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