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InRule
Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:33 AM

InRule has announced the release of V3.0 of their .Net based Rules Engine. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bpmblog/archive/2008/07/30/inrule-technology-announces-inrule-version-3-0.aspx 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: Integration, Development, programming, Design, .net, Rules Engine

MS Sphere Display
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:01 AM

Microsoft wants to see every available surface become a computer screen. It has already developed a multi-touch Surface Computer (which is being used in AT&T stores), and turned that vertical in a multi-touch wall. Now, it’s latest project at Microsoft Research is a Sphere http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/29/microsoft-researchers-get-fancy-with-a-sphere... Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft, Development, programming, Design, News, technology

Agile and Risk
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:46 AM

Article on how agile practices manage and possibly eliminate risk in the development cycle. http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=11133&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! |... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, Agile, SCRUM, .net, XP

Hiding Menu Items
Monday, July 28, 2008 2:12 AM

I read this interesting little post by Joel Spolsky on the hiding of menu items. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.html I seem to agree with his view that user's get confused and struggle to get the disabled menu item to work. And sometimes they just give up on the piece of software all together. What do you think? Subscribe in a reader Share... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, General Information

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

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

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

SCRUM and how to handle interuptions
Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:33 AM

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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, Agile, SCRUM

Entity Framework and Data Modeling
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:18 AM

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! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, database, Design, patterns, ADO.Net

Building Apps with SSDS
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:07 AM

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! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Integration, Development, programming, Design, Architecture, Web 2.0

Duplex WCF Services
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:47 AM

Scott Breeze posted this article around a project he has done exploring the use of Silverlight and WCF. http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/scotts/2008/06/28/Silverlight2Beta2AndDuplexWCFServices.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Integration, Development, programming, Design, patterns, WCF, .net, Silverlight

Software factories - a practicle implemenation
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:06 AM

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!... Read More...

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

DDD in practice
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:37 AM

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! Read More...

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

SOA Principles and Modularity
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:14 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, Architecture, patterns, .net, Practices, SOA

Using Mocks
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:07 AM

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! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, Practices, Testing

Indentification of concurrency issues
Monday, June 02, 2008 4:15 AM

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Design, .net, technology, Testing, tools

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