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Speaking on SOA: The Paradigm Shift and IO in Denver Tuesday

I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-01-2008
New and Notable 131

I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-14-2006
On the Road Again

With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-10-2006
New Expression Tools and WPF/E

Some exciting announcements and tools from Microsoft today. Michael Swanson's got all the information here . Of big interest to me is the first Community CTP of WPF/E .

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-04-2006
Agile Project Use of CAB

Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-04-2006
A Beasty COM Interop Problem

This is one reason why Scott Hanselman calls me an "Interop Beast" -)). We had a thorny COM Interop issue that was causing a crash in certain machine types. Every single pair on the team had worked on it for many hours for the last three weeks , in our Ship Cycle without success. It should...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-02-2006
Our Agile Project Goes into Ship/Performance Mode

So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 12-02-2006
New and Notable 130

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 with the first being the Native File Version which...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-30-2006
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-28-2006
New and Notable 126

I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 11-18-2006

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