New and Notable 96

Published 17 May 06 02:55 PM | Sam Gentile

Again another month and change since the last one so this issue will be a collection of everything marked in my Feed Demon box, some of it not so new-)

Andy of the Pragmatic Programmers announces, " long-awaited Practices of an Agile Developer is now available from our website and from bookstores all over the world (the press release is here)."
Martin Fowler has updated his classic Continuous Integration article
A bunch of great posts from one of our best bloggers, Jeffery

TDD Speeds Up Unit Testing
TDD Reveals Bad Class Design - Level 300
TDD Makes Refactoring Easy
Writing Software is Too Easy; I think the general premise here is that writing bad software is way too easy these days
StructureMap 1.1

Another great CB blogger. Jeremy, on a very true fact, "Code Complete" is a lie; "Done, done, done" is the truth
Microsoft Previews Windows CE 6
Windows Live Messenger Beta now broadly available
Coder's Love Progressive Rock? For sure; Besides Brad I know of least Jeff Richter, Don Box, Tim Ewald and myself among others...
Steve Maines points to a great article on ClickOnce and WCF
Lots of good Don posts

Christian Nagel has 2 LINQ posts: LINQ vs. XQuery and More Linq
Mario Cardinal interviewed the speakers (including me) at DevTeach on what we thought were the best and worst parts of Microsoft .NET. Check it out here! [via Beth]
Expression Web Design CTP1 released
We talk about this a lot in Agile, "

More features will always bring more revenue, more customer satisfaction, other good things. Therefore there is always pressure for people to work harder, longer hours. This is demonstrably a Bad Idea. Here's some evidence, and some ideas about how to know if pressure is too high."
In a recent interview, Ward Cunningham talks about social software, organizing for collaborative development and the future of software. SQLSummit.com Podcast (MP3 audio, playing time 20:01

Filed under: Agile Development, TDD, WinFX, Microsoft, Agile, LINQ, Orcas

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# http:// said on May 18, 2006 05:42 PM:

There's an html tag called UL that's makes things like this MUCH more readable. ;)

# SamGentile said on May 18, 2006 10:17 PM:

You're right. It shows as a bulleted list in the editor but there seems to be some problem with the style sheet.

# SamGentile said on May 19, 2006 03:52 PM:

Brendan Tompkins fixed the site template for me. Thanks for pointing this out and reading!

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