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No news good news?

As the blog post says, I haven't been too active on the blogging front for the past 2-3 months. This has been mostly due to the career move I made to Pragma Products beginning of June. Having been at the company now for just more than a month I am very happy with the move. The company...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 07-08-2008
A dialog box is open. Close it and try again.

I recently had to set up a new laptop with all the development tools and other applications. This in itself isn't so bad, it just takes some time. This was also my first hands-on experience with Vista, and Vista 64-bit nonetheless. It made for some pretty interesting driver searches...

Posted to Daniel's blog (Weblog) by DanielVanWyk on 06-30-2008
Career move

May will be my last month working as a .NET Technology Consultant at Sanlam . I have accepted an exciting position as Software Architect at Pragma Products where I will join the team beginning of June 2008 to work on the next generation of their software products. I'm super excited about the company...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 04-30-2008
Izindaba #21

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 12-07-2007
Dilbert Agile Development Humour

Some of you may have seen the recent Dilbert Cartoon on Agile Programming. I picked up these additional, hilarious Dilbert cartoons on Agile Development from a thread on the AltNetConf group . Enjoy

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-27-2007
Further Thoughts on Adopting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008

In my current role as .NET technology consultant I am trying to do all the pre-work required to get the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 adopted as the .NET development standard for our company going forward. Here are some useful resources that I have come across that I would like to share with other teams...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-27-2007
Izindaba #18

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-16-2007
Izindaba #17

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - Excellent post from Daniel Moth that brings together all the links to the yummy goodness that is .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Debugger...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-09-2007
Getting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 Adopted

I'm currently trying to pro-actively drive the adoption of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 within my company to start using it when it is released early next year. Our current standard is C#, using the .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1. We have a small portfolio of applications still running...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 10-31-2007
Izindaba #14

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content: Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex - Jesse Liberty is struggling with a case of some Silverlight addiction LINQ to DataSet: Data Binding - Erick Thompson explores the data binding options for...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 10-19-2007

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