As some people noticed on Facebook already, its my birthday today! And I am 47 already... Thanks for the dozens of good wishes on Facebook and Twitter! From Twitter: Had fun on my birthday. Kids and wife suprised me by taking me to Red Lobster where I always wanted to go watching the Lobster commercials...
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As Jon notes , he is working on a WCF REST book. It's been an honor to be one of his Tech Reviewers. I am learning a whole lot about REST and even some about Web programming in WCF 3.5. He also notes that I am sitting on his Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 course in NYC, which I noted here . I am...
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We are set for our biggest code camp ever. Here are some factoids: · 590+ registered, expect close to 450 attending · 8 rooms like last time · Park on the west or north side, north (back of building) is closest to the common and session rooms · Attendees and speakers must...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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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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I pre-ordered Radiohead's In Rainbows weeks ago and got the download last week. I am listening to it right now and it is excellent. I've heard all the songs on tapes from their tour of 2006 but it's great to have them out. It sure is good to have the guitars back too!!...
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I pre-ordered Radiohead's In Rainbows weeks ago and got the download last week. I am listening to it right now and it is excellent. I've heard all the songs on tapes from their tour of 2006 but it's great to have them out. It sure is good to have the guitars back too!!...
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Last night, it was very cool to see two of my best friends and fellow INETA speakers, DonXML and Miguel Castro at my INETA talk and hang out afterwards. It's always fun! 10/10 - Today, I traveled down to East Windsor NJ to see my friends like Ambrose Little, Devon Rader and others at Infragistics...
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Last night, it was very cool to see two of my best friends and fellow INETA speakers, DonXML and Miguel Castro at my INETA talk and hang out afterwards. It's always fun! 10/10 - Today, I traveled down to East Windsor NJ to see my friends like Ambrose Little, Devon Rader and others at Infragistics. Its...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice for...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice...
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Sue and I finally made it over to Atlantic City (which is only about 40 minutes away) to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Borgata Event Center . I was skeptical as the real Lynyrd Skynyrd of my fan time in 1970-78 was so potent. Not only did this version rock they blew the doors off the place! There were huge...
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Sue and I finally made it over to Atlantic City (which is only about 40 minutes away) to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Borgata Event Center . I was skeptical as the real Lynyrd Skynyrd of my fan time in 1970-78 was so potent. Not only did this version rock they blew the doors off the place! There were huge...
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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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A reminder that I will be at the Philly Code Camp tomorrow. It's all "sold out" with all the seats gone in a 1/2 day but if you are coming, please fill in your sessions here so we can figure out room sizes. See you tomorrow!...
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A reminder that I will be at the Philly Code Camp tomorrow. It's all "sold out" with all the seats gone in a 1/2 day but if you are coming, please fill in your sessions here so we can figure out room sizes. See you tomorrow!...
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I have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today writing new demos and slides for the upcoming Philly.Net Code Camp. I will be giving a talk on WCF and another on WF. I was going to do everything in Orcas until half way yesterday, Orcas decided to stop allowing me to see and design workflows (: And I'm...
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I have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today writing new demos and slides for the upcoming Philly.Net Code Camp. I will be giving a talk on WCF and another on WF. I was going to do everything in Orcas until half way yesterday, Orcas decided to stop allowing me to see and design workflows (: And I...
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It’s The Runtime Stupid Just got off the phone with my friend Peter Drayton who”encouraged” me to post more of my original content that I have been holding back. I have been holding back this particular one, because I wanted my radio to stay completly technical and not offer any rants...
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It’s The Runtime Stupid Just got off the phone with my friend Peter Drayton who”encouraged” me to post more of my original content that I have been holding back. I have been holding back this particular one, because I wanted my radio to stay completly technical and not offer any rants or such things...
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Lots of changes! I have switched from webhost4life to orcsweb . I have one thing to say about orcsweb: awesome! They are so much better, they are a .NET Hosting Site, and have great Microsoft relationships! All the people there have been super helpful to me and installed Community Server for me. I will...
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iWeb Totally Sucks Posted by sgentile on April 5th, 2007 iWeb totally sucks and is an embarrassment to Apple. After struggling for days to get posts to upload to .Mac I gave up and am trying Blog.Mac. Many others have the same issues....
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iWeb Totally Sucks Posted by sgentile on April 5th, 2007 iWeb totally sucks and is an embarrassment to Apple. After struggling for days to get posts to upload to .Mac I gave up and am trying Blog.Mac. Many others have the same issues....
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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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I, and a collegue of mine from work, are in Redmond from Sunday-Wednesday for the SCBAT workshop in Building 20. The Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit sessions here are being recorded!! I have already sent email to a bunch of my buddies at MSFT, especially Scoble to see if we could get together...
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I, and a collegue of mine from work, are in Redmond from Sunday-Wednesday for the SCBAT workshop in Building 20. The Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit sessions here are being recorded!! I have already sent email to a bunch of my buddies at MSFT, especially Scoble to see if we could get together...
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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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Hello world! Posted by sgentile on January 15th, 2006 I really am tired of how ugly and unmanagable my old .TEXT blog is. To be fair, it has served me very well but its been years since its been upgraded and there is a lot I can’t do with it like comments, etc. So maybe this is the place? Maybe I can...
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