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Izindaba #20
30 November 07 05:48 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 .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS 7) - Scott Guthrie announces the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development for the months ahead. Silverlight 2.0 Beta with Go-live license Q1 2008! So glad they decided to rename to 2.0 and not stick with 1.1. Advanced C# - Free chapter from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book published by O'Reilly...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Linq, C#, VisualStudio, SOA, Coding, SQL

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

Izindaba #16 Reloaded
01 November 07 09:42 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. As Windows Live Writer has kindly overwritten Izindaba #15 with the new Izindaba #16, I am re-posting the Izindaba #16 content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, ASPNet, CLR, SOA, Javascript, Coding, Mono

Izindaba #16
26 October 07 06:28 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples included) that show the future ASP.NET MVC Framework in action. Reference Implementation for the Web Client Software Factory ...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, ASPNet, WinForms, CLR, SOA, Javascript, Coding, Mono

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 #12
05 October 07 07:15 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Scott Guthrie has the details on some really cool new IIS7 extensions that are now available. Also listen to the TechNet Radio Interview on IIS7 with Bill Staples. Building a ToJSON Extension Method using .NET 3.5 - Scott Guthrie shows how to use extension methods to add JSON serialization/deserialization to any .NET object. Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Languages, VisualStudio, Ruby, CLR, StaticCodeAnalysis, SOA, SQL, Mono, WCF

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