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New and Notable 165
07 May 07 01:21 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the...
Community Server, Personal Blog Back on Samgentile.com
06 May 07 11:52 AM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Ok, I know I have switched my personal blog more times than Paris Hilton has got arrested but this is the last time, I swear :). To all your feedback, you said you didn't want other sites for both my home and personal blog. I also have totally had...
New and Notable 161
29 April 07 01:34 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS...
New and Notable 153
27 March 07 06:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 11 comment(s)
Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says...
New and Notable 152
26 March 07 12:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 151
23 March 07 11:31 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
New and Notable 150!!
22 March 07 02:24 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 149
18 March 07 01:02 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
All I Can Say is a Big Amen!
15 March 07 04:22 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
This says it all.
MVP Summit Wednesday - Tour of PAG Agile Development Facilities
14 March 07 11:07 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
ADO.NET 3 - Entity Framework without Persistance Ignorance
14 March 07 10:52 PM | Sam Gentile | 13 comment(s)
Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set...
MVP Summit Monday and Tuesday
14 March 07 12:17 AM | Sam Gentile | 7 comment(s)
Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that...
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New and Notable 148
07 March 07 04:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 147
02 March 07 06:57 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something...
First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image
02 March 07 05:14 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate...
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