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Code Snippet Tool
SnipPit is a SQL Server based VS add-in (and separate desktop app.) snippet respository . http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/SnipPit.aspx Subscribe in a reader Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Agile And the truth
What is the role of the truth in the Agile development process? Here is a post that seem to know: http://dpwhelan.com/blog/agile/truthfulness-on-software-teams/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Entity Framework and Data Modeling
In this MSDN Magazine article the author answers questions regarding the Entity Framework and provides an understanding of how and why it was developed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700331.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Building Apps with SSDS
MSDN Magazine has this article on using SQL Server Data Services as your data store to your application(s). A very cool concept if infrastructure, licensing etc is an issue. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700349.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Software factories - a practicle implemenation
Here is an article from MSDN on a practical implementation of software factories. In the article brief principles get discussed, but the over Wow of the article reside in the cutting of development costs. Something to consider: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc496679.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
DDD in practice
Found this very good article on infoq by Srini Penchikala on Domain Driven Design and the practice implementation of the concept. Even a sample has been included. Read more here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-in-practice Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
SOA Principles and Modularity
Some points on SOA architecture principles. Interesting read: http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/soa-rediscovering-modularity Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Using Mocks
I think I have posted on using mocks before, but here is another blog post regarding this matter - rather leaning more towards being against this matter: http://serialseb.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-mock-frameworks-suck-and-how-to.html Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Indentification of concurrency issues
Nice article from MSDN Magazine on how to identify concurrency issues as well as some useful tools: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc546569.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Stored procedure generator
A tool to create the basic insert,update,select statements to your SQL tables. http://www.codeplex.com/spgen Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
.Net for clients
With the .NET platform continuing to grow at a breakneck pace, the need for a lighter weight client-only version has become apparent. To address this need, the .NET Framework Client Profile was created. http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2008/05/21/net-framework-client-profile-justin-van-patten.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
How long should a sprint last?
InfoQ has got allot of useful information. Here is a short article on what should influence the length of a SCRUM sprint. http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/sprint_length Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Flexible Data Transformation Architecture
Article found on MSDN. Some cool concepts used: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/cc533518.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Collective code ownership
Article on Infoq.com around the good and bad of implementing collective code ownership as part of your Agile implementation: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/weaknesses_collective_code;jsessionid=FE9DD28338F050DA716815E4A8B3D9C5 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Become a grandmaster developer
Jeff Moser wrote a good, interesting and entertaining article on the differences between experienced and inexperienced programmers, good design vs. bad design etc, etc. Although some parts might be "over my head" (might not be over yours), I still found this a cool read: http://www.moserware.com/2008/03/what-does-it-take-to-become-grandmaster.html Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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