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Team Foundation Server Power Tools released
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...

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Enterprise Library v3 plan is released.
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...

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Looks like a great lineup at Patterns and Practices Summit...
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...

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Some real-world Team System project experiences...
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...

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Another good idea...
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...

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Rob Howard: marks of a maturing software organization...
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...

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Dependency Injection, Dynamic component binding...
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...

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Exception Handling
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...

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Naming conventions
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...

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Another Biztalk joke...
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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