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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 #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 #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 #9
14 September 07 08:25 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Visual Studio to Finally Address Performance Issues - InfoQ links to a Channel 9 Video on the performance improvements made to the VS 2008 IDE. LINQ to SQL: Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control - Scott Guthrie continues with his LINQ to SQL series. Programming Silverlight 1.0 with C#: Part 1 - Nikhil Kothari shows how to use Script# instead of Javascript to build an application...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Linq, Silverlight, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby

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 #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

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

Agile development in SA?
01 October 06 01:36 PM | cjlotz | 3 comment(s)

We went through another round of interviews the past 2-3 weeks to find one or two additional resources for our development team. As we are keen followers of agile development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration etc. one of the key skills that we look for in candidates is some experience with these development techniques. I am sad to say that very few people that we interviewed had any prior experience with even only writing simple tests using NUnit. The standard answer...

Filed under: SDLC, ContinuousIntegration, TDD, Agile

Great agile development practises post
18 August 06 10:07 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

Jeremy Miller has posted a Best of the Shade Tree Developer blog that outlines the best blog entries that he has created since he started blogging. There is some great content on some agile development practices, patterns, TDD, mock objects etc. While you at it, subscribe to his blog - it makes for great reading. Enjoy! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Filed under: TDD, Agile, Object-Orientation