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10 August 07 11:15 PM | Sam Gentile | 13 comment(s)
Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading...
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...
Windows Workflow 103 or WF Part 3 - Introduction to Workflow
10 March 07 12:01 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes...
Windows Workflow 102 or WF Part 2
09 March 07 06:30 PM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real...
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...
New and Notable 147
02 March 07 06:57 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
First Experiences with Orcas March CTP VPC Image
02 March 07 05:14 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
Sam Gentile INETA in Oklahoma City March 5th on WCF
28 February 07 08:50 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
As fellow CodeBetter Blogger Raymond notes, in his very gracious post , I will be giving two talks on WCF for INETA this coming Monday in Oklahoma City. The deck is being refined once again with my latest Indigo learnings especially as we deploy in Financial...
It's Out!! Code Name "Orcas" - March Community Technology Preview (CTP)
28 February 07 03:12 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
Windows Workflow 101 or 2 Months with WF
24 February 07 06:21 PM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
I don't really know what to call this post. I'm not as good as Palermo in doing 101 posts and I like to talk about the context and issues. And, I'm not just a pretty link-blogger so away we go :). Way back in October, I talked about Re-Hosting...
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...
New and Notable 142
18 February 07 03:16 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 138
30 January 07 03:10 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch...
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...
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