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New and Notable 168: My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things...
Posted 03 June 2007 02:37 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, WCF, SOA, Software Architecture, Software Design, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, MAC OS/X, Tools

New and Notable 153: Its suddenly over 80 degrees here today and went off for a drenching run. Team System/Team Foundation Server Big news of the day is that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain , which makes the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team Server. Brian Harry says...
Posted 27 March 2007 06:51 PM by Sam Gentile | 11 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, .NET, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Orcas, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS

New and Notable 150!!: 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...
Posted 22 March 2007 02:24 AM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 149: Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up...
Posted 18 March 2007 01:02 AM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 148: Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with...
Posted 07 March 2007 04:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, PAG, REST

New and Notable 147: Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something...
Posted 02 March 2007 06:57 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, BPEL, PAG, REST

First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image: So after two days of downloading at broadband speeds, I finally got all the pieces of the Orcas Mrach CTP downloaded. Doublce-clicking on Part1.exe expanded the other 8 RAR files. Once that was done, I used Virtual PC 2007 on top of my Vista Ultimate...
Posted 02 March 2007 05:14 AM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Orcas, OR/M

It's Out!! Code Name "Orcas" - March Community Technology Preview (CTP): I am really excited about this drop! Too many great things to mention. Get the installable bits here and the VPC image here . The page shows the very exciting Workflow and WCF new features. I'll have more to say as I play with them. Windows Communication...
Posted 28 February 2007 03:12 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Orcas, OR/M

New and Notable 145: Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the...
Posted 21 February 2007 01:21 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Smart Client, Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Microsoft MVP, PAG

New and Notable 143: I spent my day off reviewing chapters from Michele's Indigo book and Steve's LINQ book. Meanwhile, my 4 year old daughter has fed our (expensive!) premium Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream we got at Whole Foods to Angus the Bulldog exclaiming "but...
Posted 19 February 2007 07:11 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Orcas, SQL Server

New and Notable 142: Data/ADO.NET Orcas Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3 Software Architecture/SOA/CAB Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services? David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA Eric Newcomer: WS...
Posted 18 February 2007 03:16 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Smart Client, CAB, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, ADO.NET, Orcas, PAG, Agile Architecture

New and Notable 111: 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...
Posted 21 July 2006 01:35 PM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: CLR, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, TDD, Blogsphere, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Development Tools

New and Notable 110: 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...
Posted 20 July 2006 05:34 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, TDD, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, OR/M, Development Tools

Sam Gentile, SOA with WCF in Syracuse, NY Wed July 19th: My ongoing SOA with WCF speaking tour for INETA touches down in East Syracuse for the CNY.NET User Group tomorrow night after stops in Philly, Toledo, Dayton and Iselin. If all goes well today with the demos, I will be using the July CTP of WCF.
Posted 18 July 2006 12:21 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, SOA, INETA, Microsoft, MVP, .NET Framework 3

I Didn't Even Get the June WCF/.NET 3 Installed and ...: ..and July is out already! I was telling the team just this morning in our Iteration meeting that we needed to move to the June CTP and before we got out it was superceded by the July CTP! -). Hmm, I just noticed that " "Orcas" .NET Framework...
Posted 18 July 2006 12:54 AM by Sam Gentile | with no comments
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, SOA, INETA, Microsoft, MVP, .NET Framework 3