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

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

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

WCF and SSB
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:48 AM

Good article on using the WCF SQL Adapter to extract messages from SSB. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2008/06/30/using-the-wcf-sql-adapter-to-read-messages-from-ssb-queues-and-submit-them-to-biztalk.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, programming, SQL Server, patterns

Subversion 1.5
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:42 AM

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Filed under: Development, programming, Open Source, source control, Agile

Speeding up SharePoint (or any IIS hosted website)
Friday, June 20, 2008 6:12 AM

A client of mine recently complained about the speed of their SharePoint portal. After playing around I found this very simple and useful solution to the client's problem. This is not SharePoint specific and can be applied to any site hosted in IIS. Add the following http header to the list in IIS cache-control: (name) max-age=3600, no-check (value) What... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, SharePoint, programming, asp.net, .net, WebServices

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

Updating of SharePoint tasks
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:53 AM

I recently developed a basic approval workflow for a client that entails an InfoPath form dynamically updating the workflow task depending on a radio button selection - via a web service. With this process I kept getting an error saying something like the following: The Web application at SOMEURL could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Microsoft, Development, SharePoint, programming, .net, WebServices

New SharePoint Site
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:49 AM

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Filed under: C#, SharePoint, programming, asp.net, .net, MOSS 2007

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

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