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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

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

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

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! Read More...

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

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

An introduction on infoq on Lean Thinking in software. http://www.infoq.com/articles/lean-thinking-software 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, patterns, Agile, Practices, XP

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

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! Read More...

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

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

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! Read More...

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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

.Net for clients
Monday, May 26, 2008 3:09 AM

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... Read More...

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SOA projects - why some succeed, why some fail
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:20 AM

This is Brian Loesgen's view on this topic. Makes a nice, quick read with some nice ideas: http://geekswithblogs.net/bloesgen/archive/2008/05/19/122248.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Development, programming, Design, patterns, Platforms, Practices, SOA

BAM Poster for BTS 2006 R2
Monday, May 19, 2008 3:46 AM

The just released BAM poster for BTS 2006 R2 can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2A332C7-687A-448A-BBDF-5FEC51476BF6&displaylang=en Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, C#, Integration, Development, programming, patterns, Platforms, Practices