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Izindaba #18
16 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools - So Little Time! - Jesse Liberty tries to summarize when to use what tools for doing Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 development. Code Metrics as Check-in Policy - The Code Analysis Team shows how to prevent...

Filed under: SDLC, TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, CLR, Architecture, SQL, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Misc

Izindaba #8
07 September 07 07:47 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper Counting Wastes Time and How Are You Going To USE That Information - Some thoughts from Fred George on collecting metrics and using metrics in an Agile development environment. Scott Bellware expands on his thoughts with reference to BDD. 20 Tips to Improve ASP.NET Application Performance - Nice list of ASP.NET performance enhancement tips. MbUnit 2.4...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, C#, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, BDD, DDD, Frameworks, Teamwork, OS, Misc, Mono

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 #4
10 August 07 08:01 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: VS 2008 Beta2 Fixes - Scott Guthrie on issues discovered with Beta 2 and workarounds for the issues. One Mock per Test - Some TDD advice from David Laribee Applying Agile to Ruby - Steve Eichert links to a talk by Fred George from ThoughtWorks on how important many of the core agile practices are when working with a dynamic language like Ruby. Domain Model Test Helper - Test helper that provides...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, Linq, Orm, VisualStudio, Ruby, BDD, DDD, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, SOA