patterns,Practices,Development

Testing and the development cycle

We all know how important testing is in the development life cycle. Here is an article written by Jeffrey Palermo on the effect of testing - or lack there of: http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/if-you-cannot-afford-to-test-it-you-cannot-afford-to-sell-it/ 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!

Posted 19 November 2008 02:03 AM by riaan

Filed under: Code, BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, patterns, Practices, Products

Martin Fowler on Oslo

Posted 29 October 2008 01:57 AM by riaan

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

Kanban as Alternative Agile Implementation

Kanban systems for software, derived from the Toyota Production System, are an iterationless approach for scheduling work. Instead of using a time boxed iteration and planning meeting, the pulls stories from the backlog only when it has completed its previous work. Read more: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/kanban_agile 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!

Posted 24 October 2008 02:28 AM by riaan

Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Development, patterns, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Oslo

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. http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/oslo-unveiled Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email...

Posted 12 September 2008 02:27 AM by riaan

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

Scalability Worst Practices

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 Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 26 August 2008 03:29 AM by riaan

Filed under: Development, patterns, Agile, Practices

Introduction to Cloud Computing

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!

Posted 22 August 2008 03:03 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

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

Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series

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 here: http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/aaron/archive/2008/08/19/pluralsight-s-wcf-wf-developer-screencast-series.aspx Subscribe in...

Posted 20 August 2008 02:37 AM by riaan | 1 comment(s)

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

Kanban as an Agile practice

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!

Posted 15 August 2008 02:30 AM by riaan

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

Code Snippet Tool

Posted 24 July 2008 03:09 AM by riaan | 2 comment(s)

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

SharePoint Customization Best Practices

Posted 23 July 2008 02:50 AM by riaan

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

WCF Standards

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 this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Posted 23 July 2008 02:46 AM by riaan

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

Lean Thinking

Posted 16 July 2008 02:44 AM by riaan

Filed under: C#, Development, programming, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

Agile And the truth

Posted 15 July 2008 01:51 AM by riaan

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

WCF Best practices

Posted 10 July 2008 02:40 AM by riaan

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

Biztalk naming and versioning

Posted 03 July 2008 02:38 AM by riaan

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

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