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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...
New and Notable 145
21 February 07 01:21 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
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 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...
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...
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