Oslo From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling - It seems like Oslo has evolved their direction again. Doug Purdy announces the change from "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling and a SQL Server Modeling CTP which will consist of: “M” is a highly productive, developer friendly, textual...
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Agile The vital discussion that I pointed to yesterday initiated by Ted Neward continued today with a well-written follow-up from Phil Haack , and then followed up by Ted . Interesting discussion and comments. Software Development Tools Power Commands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor –...
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First time I have been up at 5AM in a very long time. BTW, the new Starbucks Via Ready Brew coffees are amazing. They are whole bean instant coffees. They say it took them 20 years to come up with it. All I know, is that it is the first instant coffee I have ever had in my life that doesn’t taste...
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Slim pickings today. Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 5) - Rico Mariani continues his personal history of the IDE F# in Visual Studio 2010 - Soma writes about F# being a full-fledged first-class citizen in VS2010 and some of the new features it brings to the working programmer...
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Software Design/ALT.NET 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) - Rob Conery responds to Joel's statement, "IoC containers take a simple, elegant, and useful concept, and make it something you have to study for two days with a 200-page manual" with a short tutorial to show...
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Agile/TDD TDD Triage - The echoes from Joel Spolsky’s Duct Tape blog continue. Uncle Bob, after all the controversy from his last two posts, talks about where TDD works and where it doesn’t Software Development Tools My History of Visual Studio (Part 3) - Rico Mariani continues the story...
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Software Development/ALT.NET I’m probably the only blogger that didn’t link to or comment on Joel’s latest essay, duct tape programmers . I am not going to bother commenting on it either as Joel’s writing tends to just infuriate me and make me wonder why *anyone* is paying attention...
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Windows Azure/WCF Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+ – The usual great list of Azure links from Roger Jennings First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Now Available! – The first CTP of SQL Azure is available for testing and the Azure training kit for August has...
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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...
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ALT.NET Slides of my NHibernate Talk - Davy Brion shares his slides for a talk he is giving on NHibernate Agile is never 'no process" - Ian agrees with David that agile is about discipline and how Agile is getting a bad name because some are choosing Agile to give an excuse for "we don't want...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Laxy Loading Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries A guide into OR/M implementation challenges...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache Talking about StoryTeller and Executable Requirements Measuring Agile Performance with the Agile...
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Agile/ALT.NET James Shore provides a Introduction to Agile for QA People This is late but Davy Brion has started a series on Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series . Some posts include Out of the Box CRUD Functionality , Mapping Classes to Tables , and Hydrating Entities . Ayende seems to be having...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Moving to Kanban: A Mentoring Session A Conversation On Adopting Kanban Refactoring Day 20: Extract Subclass Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF & Silverlight Entity Framework/Oslo Julie has more on Oslo & Data Programability Merger Julie...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Agile/ALT.NET Zen and the Art of Software Development Acceptance Test "Lifecycle" DevLink 2009 - Good News Everyone! Some nice observations on conference organization in general Refactoring Day 17: Extract Superclass Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC CSD - WCF/Oslo/Azure What's New in WCF 4: Performance...
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Software Development Tools/Agile One of the best tools in the world , and one I install just after VS on a new machine has received a new update. In the first post on TestDriven.NET 2.23 Beta , Jamie talks about how if you are using TD.NET 2.23 on a 64-bit system, running tests is almost twice as fast...
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Windows Azure New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signature Summary and Transcript: First Windows Azure Lounge Chat Software Design Refactoring Day 11: Switch to Strategy Software/Silverlight SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released Business Apps Example for Silverlight...
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Software Design The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! Refactoring Day 6: Push Down Field Refactoring Day 7: Rename (method, class, parameter) Refactoring Day 8: Replace Inheritance with Delegation Refactoring Day 9: Extract Interface Refactoring Day 10: Extract Method xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released Windows...
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We got clobbered with over a foot of snow. ALT.NET There is some great coverage of ALT.NET Seattle 2009: Phil Haack : ALT.NET Seattle Day One ALT.NET Seattle Day Two ALT.NET Seattle Day Three Glenn Block Scott Hanselman - Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle Open Spaces ALT.NET Seattle — Keynote [Ward...
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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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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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ASP.NET Via Brad Abrams , The Visual Web Development team has started a “Tips of the Week” blog series where they will share some great ideas at http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/default.aspx . Did You Know… Tip #1 – Powerful CSS Tools to Create, Manage and Apply Styles...
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Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates...
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ALT.NET/Mocks Jim Shore The Art of Agile Development: Coding Standards Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) Part II ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF ScottGu delivers again - May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF Visual Studio Links #30 More later...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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I am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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I am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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Community is all about building bridges and the greater good of the community. I want to thank Scott Bellware and Jeremy Miller for engaging in hours of positive, honest dialogue. They were both fanstatic in their desire to move forward in a very positive manner. I also want to give special thanks to...
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Community is all about building bridges and the greater good of the community. I want to thank Scott Bellware and Jeremy Miller for engaging in hours of positive, honest dialogue. They were both fanstatic in their desire to move forward in a very positive manner. I also want to give special thanks to...
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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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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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Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...
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Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...
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Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients...
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Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients and others...
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