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Sam Gentile's Inessential List of Tools
29 February 08 12:00 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence...
New and Notable 201
06 November 07 11:08 AM | Sam Gentile | 7 comment(s)
SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS...
INETA Connected Systems: SOA with WCF, WSB Slides New Jersey Slides Up
11 October 07 09:30 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon.
New and Notable 196
09 October 07 08:29 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis...
Wanted: A Windows Edition for Power and Professional Users
15 April 07 06:07 PM | Sam Gentile | 21 comment(s)
Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated...
New and Notable 156
07 April 07 11:50 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
A light day out there for the Holiday weekend. LINQ Bart has another series going with The IQueryable Tales - LINQ to LDAP. Part 1 is Key Concepts and Part 2 is Getting Started with IQueryable . CLR Jason continues Disassembling .NET with Appendix B ...
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New and Notable 140
11 February 07 01:39 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time...
New and Notable 139
05 February 07 11:02 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible...
Windows Vista Disappointing on Launch
30 January 07 12:51 PM | Sam Gentile | 10 comment(s)
So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion...
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...
Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600)
01 October 06 05:16 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK...
September CTP, Orcas Tools, I'm So Confused!
30 September 06 07:41 PM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience...
Vista RC1 Experiences Highly Variable
21 September 06 06:33 PM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't...
Vista RC1 and Ready to Go
01 September 06 11:12 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
My friend Shawn says , " Yes, I said upgrading XP! The good news is that is build is very very good. Not perfect, but very good! I am able to use it as my main box " about Pre-RC Build 5536. I agree 1000%. Since my install a few days ago, I...
Vista 5472 Ultimate Up and Running
22 July 06 05:28 AM | Sam Gentile | 10 comment(s)
I'm posting this from Vista 5472 Ultimate Edition and everything looks good. Again, a trivial install with 2 or 3 questions. Nice job. Of course, the first thing I do when I bring up any machine is to go right to Scott Hanselman's Repave Essentials...
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