Archives
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Swivel
Swivel has been called "YouTube for Data". Very cool.
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Scalable or simple?
Rob Howard asks "Which is more difficult?"
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Jeremy's Programming Manifesto...
Jeremy posts about his Programming Manifesto. It's a great read, and while I am still digesting it, I will just summarize it here. Go read his stuff please.
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DDD and ORM blog posts of note...
Ted Neward has a great post that compares ORM to the Vietnam war. http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx
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Unit testing Cmdlets for PowerShell
I don't use PowerShell myself, but this blog post caught my eye.
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Model-View-Presenter in ASP.NET
Haacked has a great article on the nuts-and-bolts of building ASP.NET pages using the MVC pattern and actually testing them (actually using TDD techniques, not just saying they should be used).
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Spectrum of Knowledge? No...Landscape of Knowledge
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Interface first?
I've been re-reading this post from Sikin Joseph for most of the afternoon.
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.NET, Java, Patterns, Abstraction, YAGNI
Some interesting tidbits
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"Developers" AND "Programmers"
A recent (uncredited) article on Hacknot discusses the terms Programmer and Developer.
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Software Factories and the YAGNI factor
Steve posted his concerns over software factories and the YAGNI factor. ("You Ain't Gonna Need It")
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MSBuild SQL database synchronization tasks (for RedGate SqlCompare and SqlDataCompare)
Phil just posted a couple of MSBuild tasks that he uses to synchronize the schema and data of two databases, using the API's for RedGate's SqlCompare (for schema) and SqlDataCompare (for data).
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Authorization Rules
ScottGu posted an article showing how to add authorization rules to business and data layers.
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Quality Control as part of a Software Factory
Hernan de Lahitte writes about the FxCop rules included in the WebService Factory that analyze the security of WCF code and configuration files.
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UI Controls and Threading
Steve posted about a problem with updating a UI control from a non-UI thread. In his case, the exception that was produced wasn't clear as to what was causing the problem. On the mobile device the exception that was generated was:
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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.
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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....
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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 inspiring all at once. Lucky me I get to hear Joel almost every day....)
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Another good idea...
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Rob Howard: marks of a maturing software organization...
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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 dependencies on other team members, adding testability to development) are great.
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Exception Handling
Recently we've been discussing exception handling at Imaginet with Joel,
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Visual Studio Close All Windows
I like the feature in Visual Studio 2005 to "Close all windows except this", but now that I have it I wish it was a little more full-featured...
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Sandcastle MSBuild target
I've seen some recent blogs on Sandcastle, the new documentation tool for .NET assemblies. Joel challenged us to write something that would integrate documentation as a build step in a Team System build.
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Wiki vs Sharepoint
Just curious to find out how people might compare Sharepoint to Wiki, pros and cons, what scenarios are more suitable for each, and so on....or even if you think they are like comparing apples to oranges.
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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.
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Joel is inspiring people...
Joel has inspired the people from Attrice to release a sidekick for Team Foundation Source Control. They also have a sidekick for MSBuild.
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Another Biztalk joke...
Why did the out-of-work Biztalk developer go hungry?
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BizBalk
BizBalk is what Biztalk developers do when someone proposes a change to the schemas.
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Continuous Integration - Developer Night in Canada
John Bristowe has started a new podcast called DNIC - Developer Night In Canada, and he interviewed me about Continuous Integration today.
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Adam Cogan's Rules page
Looks very interesting...
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MSBuild, MSTest, Biztalk and CruiseControl.Net
I've been working on a project that will incorporate a number of pieces of technology: Biztalk, Host Integration Server, Hummingbird Document Management, Sybase, and perhaps a few others.
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Application Designer and Web Application Projects and Biztalk
I'm working on a project now that has a lot of components and web services and a few client applications. And Biztalk.
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Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects
There is a Web Application project in VS 2005.