Development Notes, News and Ramblings
After returning from a wonderful vacation, its back to business. We are currently working on an interesting WCF project in which I actually get to dogfood our service implementation. At least thats the plan. Working with a distributed team, Jeff one of my guys, is located in Northern California. He happens to be responsible for huge […]
Have you ever gotten into a situation where your customers development team uses tools that you know full well are not best of breed, but you go along with it and use them for their project because…. well they are the customer and pay the bills. I have precisely such a case. The customers […]
Karin Huber describes her Master Pages idea for WPF applications in an article on CodeProject. Why does that remind me so much of ASP.NET 1.1 home made master pages? Good article !
NDepend is a unique code analysis tool. I believe that currently there is not one other product on the market that can can match its capabilities.
If you are anything like me, you hate having to read other peoples code. OK, maybe hate is putting it strongly. In as much as you have to get into […]
I just don’t have the time to blog about all the various bits and pieces of information I come across that deal with the MS Entity Framework - and how it is potentially a problem. But Roger Jennings does. Roger’s blog contains a wonderfully broad range of posts that really go into some detail on […]
Roger Jennings has a nice summary and various links to a great article by Ian Cooper that looks at LINQ from the point of view of DDD, TDD and PI.
Roger notes another voice in the chorus that reiterates we need support for more db’s than simply the ones by MS. He says “….He then goes […]
I believe that the surge in various open source projects , as well as certain commercial ones, that provide proper ORM tools to the .NET development community may pose a bit of an issue for MS. You see, the data access structure that MS has espoused for the past 10+ years was usually based on […]
Ola Blini has a very interesting post about John Lam’s work on a MS version of Ruby. The most important part of it - to me - is the point that MS employees are not allowed to use Open Source projects in any way when developing new code. Hence John is not allowed to even […]
Sam Gentile has a lengthy post about a recent essay called RubyMicrosoft by none other than Martin Fowler. Both items are excellent reads. Sam underscores the chasm that exists between certain elements of the MS Development community. Although I do want to add one point - I have used Dependency Injection and ORM for almost […]
Roger Jennings has a list of recommendations posted in response to a call by MS for people to participate in a design Q/A session at Tech Ed. I have nothing to say. For once.
DocToHelp, in its recent print ads running in Visual Studio Magazine, has taken the courageous and laudable step to include an image of Winslow T. Carstensen, the oldest known .NET programmer in the world.
“Speedy T.” as Mr. Carstensen is known to friends on the ASP Forums has graciously agreed to take part in this […]
Whilst attempting to upgrade CodeRush to the current release (2.2.2) the Installer would hang and display the very useful message “Internal Error 2739″. At first I searched the CodeRush knowledge base but was not able find anything. Maybe it was my search technique….. Google to the rescue. Simply entering the error number brought me to […]
* IISAdmin.NET by Mark Belles and Gabe Wishnie allows you to create multiple websites under Win XP.
* Lindsay Donagh explains how to convert a physical computer to a virtual machine (using VM Ware of course)
* Torrent Director - 900 top torrent sites on the web
* Alessandro Fulciniti Nifty Corners Cube - css / javascript layout […]
OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often […]
Red Gate Software has an open beta for the next version of its flagship product. This new version has improvements such as
* Synching to and from scripts, for version control
* UI improvements for managing comparison projects
* Various other UI improvements
If you are interested in beta testing, contact me and I will put you in touch […]
For pointing out the following:
“….A tip o’ the hat to Ayande Rahien for having the guts to point out today that the stuff that comes out of Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices (P&P) group is mostly over-abstracted, over-architected crap. He said it nicer than that, and he rightly pointed out that it’s not that the […]
dnrTV has a very nice episode full of information on using Debug.Writeline and Trace Statements to help debug applications. I continue to be blown away occassionally by the depth of Scotts knowledge.
Watch the show here
This is so hilarious. I absolutely love it.
[Remember WinFS? Remember we spent thousands of years of developer effort and billions of dollars, and delayed Vista by years… and ended up canning the whole thing. Well the only thing we salvaged from the whole sorry fiasco, was something called the ADO.Net Entity Framework. It allows […]
The Microsoft Codename “Astoria” Overview document shows how data is addressed and represented by Astoria data services. In order to address data with Astoria data services the following addressing scheme is used: http://host/vdir//{{<[predicate]>}. For instance the URI http://myserver/data.svc/Customers points to a resource, which contains all customer instances. A single customer might be referenced by the […]
A place to find all sorts of recorded sessions from Microsoft MIX07.