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Launch Into 2008...A Microsoft Geek's Timeline

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 a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-10-2008
CodeBetter and ALT.NET: The Short Version

Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 10-07-2007
Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET

Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 10-06-2007
New and Notable 152

Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-26-2007
New and Notable 151

Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-23-2007
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, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-22-2007
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 Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-18-2007
All I Can Say is a Big Amen!

This says it all.

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-15-2007
MVP Summit Wednesday - Tour of PAG Agile Development Facilities

A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-14-2007
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 this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-07-2007

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