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Izindaba #13
12 October 07 05:54 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Optimizing SQL Server CPU Performance - Nice TechNet article on the topic from Zach Nichter. What's new in SQL Server 2008 Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 - Short series of articles that highlights all the new SQL Server 2008 features from Don Schlichting. 8 October: ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight links - Another set of links on these different technologies from Scott Guthrie. FxCop 1.36...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Ajax, Silverlight, VisualStudio, ASPNet, SOA, SQL, WCF

Izindaba #11
28 September 07 08:02 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Armchair Agilist - Scott Bellware expresses his frustration with folks from within the .NET Community who keep on criticizing agile development without having done any actual agile development themselves. Why Fixed Price, Scope Bids Are Incompatible With Software Development - A thought provoking post by Mats Helander. Continuous Testing Explained - The future of TDD? Everything Is Fast...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Ajax, VisualStudio, StaticCodeAnalysis, Coding, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Astoria

Izindaba #10
20 September 07 03:28 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

A bit earlier than normal, but it is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: NCover 2.0.1 released - NCover follows the route of other tools before it like TestDriven.NET , NDepend and CodeSmith and becomes a commercial product. Here's the what's new for the latest release. NCoverExplorer 1.4.0 - Grant Drake has released an update to his excellent NCoverExplorer tool containing some fixes and new features . This will be...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Agile, Linq, Ajax, Ruby, CLR, Teamwork, DynamicCodeAnalysis

Izindaba #7
31 August 07 07:32 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Lamda Expressions - The Basic Instincts column of the September 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine has a great article on lamda expressions that shows how the compiler uses a process called variable lifting to create a closure class to contain the free variables used in the lamda expression. Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Be aware, this may turn out...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Agile, Languages, Linq, Ajax, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, Teamwork, XML, Compilers, VB.NET, ADONet, SQL

Izindaba #6
24 August 07 07:43 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: NUnit 2.4.3 Released - Another update that includes mostly bug fixes. SketchPath - A XPath development and XML analysis tool. PowerShell Toolbox - Collection of PowerShell links. LLBLGen Pro v2.5 Released - Frans Bouma reports on the new features in the latest release of this .NET ORM. Mocking Linq: Preview - News from Eli Lopian on the forthcoming support for mocking LINQ queries from the TypeMock...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Learning, Linq, Ajax, Orm, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, Powershell, XML

Izindaba #2
27 July 07 07:31 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 Released - Scott Guthrie has all the details that includes the links to his previous posts that cover all the great new features. Beta2 includes a Go-live license. Windsor IoC Container - Jeffrey Jarrell has an introductory post on using the Windsor container from Castle Project for inversion of control . More in-depth tutorials on using Windsor are available here . Script Class...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Ajax, VisualStudio, IoC, DLR, Hardware, WinForms