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Launch Into 2008...A Microsoft Geek's Timeline
10 March 08 01:10 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows...
Partial Demo Code - Neuparts.Shipping WCF Domain-Driven Service
25 October 07 03:05 PM | Sam Gentile | 19 comment(s)
I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain...
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...
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 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...
New and Notable 111
21 July 06 01:35 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect...
New and Notable 110
20 July 06 05:34 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott...
New and Notable 109
15 July 06 06:45 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts...
New and Notable 106
05 July 06 05:01 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
I had yesterday's N&N cut short with a trip to the Jersey Shore. After a fine cookout day yesterday, I'm back at work because of the rain this afternoon. I have all my flagged items still at home because Feed Demon still is working on syncing...
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