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21 October 07 12:11 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick...
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...
New and Notable 193
21 September 07 10:36 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor...
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...
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...
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...
Truckin' Along with Iteration 19 and Indigo/Contract First with Services BAT
18 April 06 11:05 PM | Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented...
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