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Oslo
Friday, September 12, 2008 2:27 AM

Until recently Oslo has been one of the best kept secrets by Microsoft. There have been many rumors about Oslo being Microsoft’s future SOA strategy, distributed application server or Microsoft’s next unified SOA product portfolio. Finally, Douglas Purdy, Product Unit Manager for Oslo, announces, that he will be talking about Oslo and its technology at the PDC... Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, patterns, Practices, Oslo

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls
Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:49 AM

InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Industrial XP
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:47 AM

In this interview taken by Sadek Drobi of InfoQ, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers. http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Industrial-XP-Joshua-Kerievsky Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks... Read More...

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Filed under: Agile, Practices, Scum, XP, Extreme Programming

Scalability Worst Practices
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:29 AM

In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring. http://www.infoq.com/articles/scalability-worst-practices Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, patterns, Agile, Practices

Introduction to Cloud Computing
Friday, August 22, 2008 3:03 AM

Good introduction article by David Chappel on Cloud Platforms. The article was sponsored by Microsoft. http://www.davidchappell.com/CloudPlatforms--Chappell.pdf Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, patterns, SaaS, Platforms, Practices, Cloud Computing

Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:37 AM

Pluralsight has joined forces with the WCF/WF teams at Microsoft to deliver a series of short videos that illustrate how to get started using WCF/WF in your applications. The videos will be hosted on Channel9 within the Screencasts section, and they'll be highlighted on The .NET Endpoint Team Blog and the MSDN Dev Centers for WCF & WF. More info from... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, patterns, WCF, Practices, WPF

BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:31 AM

The poster is available for download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a7e28b9-9f4b-4989-a35a-247f379f2142&DisplayLang=en Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Adapters, BizTalk, Integration, patterns, Practices

Scrum-ban
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:03 AM

Corey Ladas has written an interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He goes on to describe an evolutionary process, which if taken far enough, replaces most of Scrum. Even for those who don't want to scrap Scrum and go lean, the paper provides a useful view into what kanban is and... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Kanban as an Agile practice
Friday, August 15, 2008 2:30 AM

This is probably one of the better articles around the concept. I personally love the idea and think this is the way forward for Agile practices. http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

10 Myths of using Open Source in your business
Monday, August 11, 2008 2:24 AM

ActiveState has released a short white paper entitled “10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business”. Authors advocate against black-and-white approach to open source that is often adopted by both its zealots and its opponents. They believe that using open source software may foster business development projects but pros and cons need to be weighted... Read More...

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Filed under: Business, Design, patterns, Open Source, Practices, Software

Code Snippet Tool
Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:09 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, VB.Net, programming, Design, patterns, Practices

SharePoint Customization Best Practices
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:50 AM

A guide for many common types of customizations and whether they are supported or not. The full guide can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861954.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, SharePoint, Design, patterns, .net, Practices, MOSS 2007

WCF Standards
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:46 AM

Looking for a guide to all of the web services protocols implemented by WCF? There's no single document that captures all of the information, but there is a group of documents that talk about the implemented protocols and some of the choices in those implementations. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/07/22/standards-guide.aspx Share... Read More...

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Filed under: Code, C#, Integration, Development, Design, patterns, WCF, .net, Practices

Lean Thinking
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:44 AM

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Agile And the truth
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:51 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Priciples, Agile, .net, Practices

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