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The Team Foundation Server power tools package has been released. It includes the command line tool, tfpt.exe, that has a bunch of commands that help you with source control operations, and workitem operations. The package includes several checkin policies...
The Patterns and Practices group at MSDN have released their initial plans for Enterprise Library v3 . In a nutshell, here is their list: As at our Vision/Scope milestone, the minimal credible list line includes the following features: Medium Trust support...
Look at this lineup of sessions at the Patterns and Practices Summit in Redmon Oct 9-12.... http://www.pnpsummit.com/west2006sessions.aspx I'd like to see verything, but if I had to pick.... Dependency Injection Architecture Application Framework...
Bill Simser in Calgary is using Team System with a Scrum template, and he mentioned hearing Joel's recently recorded Dot Net Rocks episode (which I've downloaded but haven't listened to - knowing Joel it will be clever and entertaining and...
Ralf had another good idea He took a group of university Comp.Sci students and did a comprehensive 5-day workshop with them, using his methodologies. It's a nice way to test out your methodologies on some high-energy people, plus I would think it's...
Rob Howard had a great post: We've [experienced] a shift from caring less about the underlying technology to how our software solves the user's problem. It's...probably one of the bigger "maturing" steps a software organization has...
Ralf has a great post explaining his microkernel that essentially is a nice dynamic loader of classes, based on a Contract First Design. He has a great explaination of how this works, and his observations about how it affects team development (reducing...
Recently we've been discussing exception handling at Imaginet with Joel , Some of the basic premises of exception handling that someone else came up with was the following: If a method cannot do what it says it will do, it should throw an exception...
The Igloo Coder has been blogging about naming conventions and I want to put in my two cents worth. I do like the book he cited, Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams , and when I first got it, I read probably 75% of the book...
Why did the out-of-work Biztalk developer go hungry? He tried begging for money, but he would only accept donations according to his own schema.
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