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CodeBetter and ALT.NET: The Short Version
07 October 07 04:03 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
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...
Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET
06 October 07 10:34 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
xUnit Test Patterns and evolving TDD and test automation
11 June 07 05:18 AM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
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...
Castle/Microkernel/Windsor Resources
29 May 07 08:52 PM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
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...
More on CAB and PAG
26 May 07 07:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
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...
On CAB and P and P
25 May 07 05:33 PM | Sam Gentile | 27 comment(s)
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...
Getting Annoyed at Agile Correctness
29 April 07 11:25 PM | Sam Gentile | 15 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 158
23 April 07 12:50 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
Samgentile.com is Back with DNN 4.1
20 April 07 12:02 PM | Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 157
15 April 07 09:22 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
New and Notable 155
05 April 07 06:40 PM | Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 154
31 March 07 01:39 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
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...
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