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08 July 08 03:13 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

As the blog post says, I haven't been too active on the blogging front for the past 2-3 months.  This has been mostly due to the career move I made to Pragma Products beginning of June.  Having been at the company now for just more than a month I am very happy with the move.  The company, people and the opportunities going forward are great.  Moving from a big corporate environment into a smaller company has been a very positive move for me.  It is great to be able to...

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Career move
30 April 08 03:23 PM | cjlotz | 3 comment(s)

May will be my last month working as a .NET Technology Consultant at Sanlam . I have accepted an exciting position as Software Architect at Pragma Products where I will join the team beginning of June 2008 to work on the next generation of their software products. I'm super excited about the company, challenges and the people I will be working with and for the opportunity to finally work in an environment where I can concentrate on using only .NET to build great software. Share this post: email...

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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 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 Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Learning, C#, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, ADONet, Misc, Mono, Design, TeamSystem, F#

Dilbert Agile Development Humour
27 November 07 08:18 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

Some of you may have seen the recent Dilbert Cartoon on Agile Programming. I picked up these additional, hilarious Dilbert cartoons on Agile Development from a thread on the AltNetConf group . Enjoy Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Further Thoughts on Adopting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008
27 November 07 04:07 PM | cjlotz | 7 comment(s)

In my current role as .NET technology consultant I am trying to do all the pre-work required to get the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 adopted as the .NET development standard for our company going forward. Here are some useful resources that I have come across that I would like to share with other teams that need to do the same thing in their corporate environments. Coding Standards Our existing coding standards is based on C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I have now updated it to include support...

Filed under: VisualStudio, Misc

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 #17
09 November 07 05:11 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - Excellent post from Daniel Moth that brings together all the links to the yummy goodness that is .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Debugger Visualisers for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod and MethodBase - Roy Osherove provides some cool debugger visualizers to view the IL generated for run-time DynamicMethods . How are value types implemented...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Object-Orientation, Orm, VisualStudio, CLR, SOA, SQL, Misc, Mono

Getting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 Adopted
31 October 07 10:15 PM | cjlotz | 4 comment(s)

I'm currently trying to pro-actively drive the adoption of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 within my company to start using it when it is released early next year. Our current standard is C#, using the .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1. We have a small portfolio of applications still running on .NET 1.1. Unfortunately we also have a big portfolio still running on VB6 . As part of the adoption I need to look at a migration roadmap for these applications and answer questions like: What's...

Filed under: C#, VisualStudio, CLR, VB.NET, Misc, VB6

Izindaba #14
19 October 07 05:52 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content: Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex - Jesse Liberty is struggling with a case of some Silverlight addiction LINQ to DataSet: Data Binding - Erick Thompson explores the data binding options for LINQ to DataSet query results. Also see the follow up post about the LinqDataView . Understanding the Difference between Owners and Schemas in SQL Server - An article that explains the concept of schemas...

Filed under: Agile, Languages, Linq, Silverlight, VisualStudio, ASPNet, BDD, StaticCodeAnalysis, 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

Feedburner Feed
31 August 07 05:03 PM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

I've updated my feed to be served by FeedBurner . The new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/FromTheSoftwareDevelopmentTrenches . From what I understand Community Server will automatically redirect the old feeds http://dotnet.org.za/cjlotz/rss.aspx and http://dotnet.org.za/cjlotz/atom.aspx to the new FeedBurner feed. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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