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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...
New and Notable 150!!
22 March 07 02:24 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 149
18 March 07 01:02 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
New and Notable 148
07 March 07 04:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
Latest on Agile Project, Reorgs, and Interop
19 February 07 08:53 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies...
Our .NET 3.0 Enterprise Application and Architecture Shipped
25 January 07 03:48 PM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I...
New and Notable 134
10 January 07 05:46 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems -...
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...
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...
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