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 and others...
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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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Cross-posted from my main Code Better blog We went over 2,000 unit tests this past week during Iteration 72 on our Agile project . Of course, over the course of the last 18-24 months we have removed some tests, and in many cases, refactored the existing tests many times. We also have been learning a...
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Cross-posted from my main Code Better blog We went over 2,000 unit tests this past week during Iteration 72 on our Agile project . Of course, over the course of the last 18-24 months we have removed some tests, and in many cases, refactored the existing tests many times. We also have been learning a...
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So I am starting to seriously look into Castle and particularly Microkernel and Winsdor . I would live to look at MonoRail but since I am doing zero web stuff that is less likely. I don't have a lot of time with all the other stuff I am doing but I hope I can create some posts and something out of...
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So I am starting to seriously look into Castle and particularly Microkernel and Winsdor . I would live to look at MonoRail but since I am doing zero web stuff that is less likely. I don't have a lot of time with all the other stuff I am doing but I hope I can create some posts and something out of it...
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So I said I didn't want to write that last post and I probably shouldn't have judging by some of your reactions :) I'm in the middle of being at the lake with my family on this Memorial Day Weekend but I did want to say something better than what I said in the last post. I guess that wouldn't be too...
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So I said I didn't want to write that last post and I probably shouldn't have judging by some of your reactions :) I'm in the middle of being at the lake with my family on this Memorial Day Weekend but I did want to say something better than what I said in the last post. I guess that wouldn't...
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I didn't want to have to write this post . I've been disapointed for well over a week about this and I've phoned Jeremy Miller twice to discuss my displeasure. A ways back, Ayende decides to bash the entire P&P team at Microsoft and specifically CAB. Then Jeremy comes in as well although he at least...
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I didn't want to have to write this post . I've been disapointed for well over a week about this and I've phoned Jeremy Miller twice to discuss my displeasure. A ways back, Ayende decides to bash the entire P&P team at Microsoft and specifically CAB. Then Jeremy comes in as well although...
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As all of you know, I am a big time Extreme Programmer. My team runs under a full XP process . I have written hundreds of posts on it, blah, blah, blah. I call myself an Agile Architect . But lately, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed with my "own" community, even some on this site...
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As all of you know, I am a big time Extreme Programmer. My team runs under a full XP process . I have written hundreds of posts on it, blah, blah, blah. I call myself an Agile Architect . But lately, I find myself getting increasingly annoyed with my "own" community, even some on this site...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to see...
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The Heat of the Moment reached 83 degrees here yesterday after days of 50 degrees and rain. Who heard of getting a sun burn in New England in mid April? Blogging/Blogsphere My friend Korby introduced Tagspace , a concept he presented to Scott Hanselman and I back at Palermo's party. I am happy to...
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I heard a lot of feedback back when I started my new personal blog and before when I started a new home portal on Office Live, that I should consolidate my web properties back around samgentile.com. To this point. it has been rather difficult because of the way we set up it was convoluted. An old version...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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CLR/Tools An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools . As I said , during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull**** Ayende already took Paul...
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I have spent a lot of time through the night and some today to try to get my personal blog in order after the Mac options didn't pan out. We have a really important, large external release going out to two external banks next Friday but we stopped this week's Iteration to fix bugs that had been...
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Sitting here on Saturday morning with a nice cup of Kona coffee. There just is no better coffee in the world. Strong but deceivingly smooth. I really miss our former annual trips to the Big Island that we used to take with my Father-In-Law and family before he got ill. We used to go up in the hills and...
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Sitting here on Saturday morning with a nice cup of Kona coffee. There just is no better coffee in the world. Strong but deceivingly smooth. I really miss our former annual trips to the Big Island that we used to take with my Father-In-Law and family before he got ill. We used to go up in the hills and...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...
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Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles of...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I consider...
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Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies, technologies and tools that we used in our 14...
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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I have had on our 14 month development cycle. This post...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released their 1 .2 version of their new CI and build solution...
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I must apologize to my very good friend Jim Shore who I was supposed to put a blog post up for quite a while ago and I spaced it in the frenzy of two projects I am in now. As you might remember, Jim came on my team and really built the team up into the super team they are now. He is a master of Extreme...
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I must apologize to my very good friend Jim Shore who I was supposed to put a blog post up for quite a while ago and I spaced it in the frenzy of two projects I am in now. As you might remember, Jim came on my team and really built the team up into the super team they are now. He is a master of Extreme...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...
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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
Continue reading "Our Agile Project Goes into Ship/Performance Mode"
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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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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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF's...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
Continue reading "How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB"
In the last post , I talked about how we had reached Iteration 33 and gone to CTP with a large International bank. I alluded to some problems. Of course, one of the CTP's main purposes was to find problems and learn from them. We ended up having a variety of problems. There were initial problems in the...
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Continuing after our last posts on both blogs, Steve details the overall process we use....
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Continuing after our last posts on both blogs, Steve details the overall process we use....
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Steve, one of our senior developers, writes quite elequently on the post I was going to write: we completly failed in last week's Iteration and it sucked. He talks also that much being written about Agile, much of it from people that have never done it. Well, simply, Agile is not a silver bullet...
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Steve, one of our senior developers, writes quite elequently on the post I was going to write: we completly failed in last week's Iteration and it sucked. He talks also that much being written about Agile, much of it from people that have never done it. Well, simply, Agile is not a silver bullet. It...
Continue reading "Agile Falling on Your Face"
I talked about our Agile process in that we do all the full XP practices especially Pair Programming, with tables we took apart and put in a corner, and our tools every day for all production code. What we found extremely fustrating and was impacting our velocity significantly, was that we were pairing...
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I talked about our Agile process in that we do all the full XP practices especially Pair Programming, with tables we took apart and put in a corner, and our tools every day for all production code. What we found extremely fustrating and was impacting our velocity significantly, was that we were pairing...
Continue reading "Agile Team Gets Full Pairing Stations"
