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Speaking Next Two Nights - Community Domain Driven WCF Best Practice Demos
09 October 07 03:32 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad...
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14 December 06 08:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't...
Our Agile Project Goes into Ship/Performance Mode
02 December 06 02:58 PM | Sam Gentile | 13 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 130
30 November 06 06:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them...
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18 November 06 01:12 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what...
New and Notable 123
08 November 06 04:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable...
New and Notable 121
03 November 06 01:45 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and...
New and Notable 119
01 November 06 02:36 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating...
New and Notable 118
30 October 06 11:15 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement...
New and Notable 117
26 October 06 04:29 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type...
Being an Agile Architect
06 September 06 11:09 PM | Sam Gentile | 26 comment(s)
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...
By God Its Out!
01 September 06 11:01 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
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...
How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB
05 August 06 12:50 PM | Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
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...
CTP and Diagnosing WCF, CAB and other Exceptions
05 August 06 12:09 PM | Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
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...
Iteration 33 and Going to CTP
28 July 06 01:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
I mentioned back months ago how well things were going back in Iteration 20 . Since that time, we have been consistently hitting our weekly Iteration targets with exception of the previously noted one here . We did learn a lot from that Iteration and...
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