Regina, SK: Spring Seminar Gary Pronych, January 1, 0001 CIPS Regina has done an incredible job setting up a 2 day seminar May 13 - 14th in Regina, SK. This seminar has Tech, Business and Student tracks on the first day; Tech and Business tracks on the second ... Regina, SK: Spring Seminar 0 0 0
Alt.Net - So what are we checking out today... D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 There are a TONNE of great topics scheduled here, but here's my list of what I'll be checking out today. Microsoft vs. Mature Tools This one should be a lively discussion. What do you define as "mature"? ... Alt.Net - So what are we checking out today... 0 0 0
Hitchhiker’s Guide to MVP Summit 2008 Part 3 Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 This (04/15/2008) was a fun day! It started out with breakfast where the only thing I could eat was muffins so I ate two of them. I had breakfast with Venkat Subramaniam. We talked a little bit about what ... Hitchhiker’s Guide to MVP Summit 2008 Part 3 0 0 1
Mike Cohn Coming To Austin Blake Caraway, January 1, 0001 Mike Cohn, founder of Mountain Goat Software and long-time vocal proponent of Scrum is coming to Austin next month as part of the Agile Austin Distinguished Speaker Series. Mike is the author of Agile ... Mike Cohn Coming To Austin 0 0 0
WANTED: Glasgow based Trainee .NET Developer Chris Canal, January 1, 0001 Strictly no agencies. I mean it! If I get a single call or email I will NOT be polite. My employer is looking to hire a trainee .NET developer. No real previous .NET experience is required, but you must ... WANTED: Glasgow based Trainee .NET Developer 0 0 6
Technology Adoption Lifecycle: In Response To "Why Alt.NET?&... Rob, January 1, 0001 Scott C Reynolds (no known relation) wrote an excellent post a few weeks ago that is definitely worth reading on Why Alt.NET. He talks about the us vs. them and the reasoning that might be behind it. I ... Technology Adoption Lifecycle: In Response To "Why Alt.NET?&... 0 0 2
ALT.NET on DotNetRocks and the Community Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Dave Laribee and Jeremy Miller recently recorded an episode on DotNetRocks and was just posted today. Episode 333 "It's the ALT.NET Show" can be found here. It's a great show that explains ALT.NET for ... ALT.NET on DotNetRocks and the Community 0 0 0
CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I really enjoyed speaking at this past weekend's CMAP Code Camp. I hope you all enjoyed my presentation on "Loosen Your Dependencies with Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers". It was ... CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers 0 0 0
Feature Driven Development (FDD) Manish Agrawal, January 1, 0001 Few days back, I had a great discussion over Agile & FDD with my CTO Mr. Naim Kazi. He told me about thebenefits of FDD & about how it takes Agile to next step. Impressesed by FDD, I googled for ... Feature Driven Development (FDD) 0 0 1
De WPF Integratio (About WPF Integration) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Introduction I've been posting a lot about Silverlight lately, but hey, here is a WPF post, and about WPF integration, no less. Note: To fully understand this article, you should have a basic understanding ... De WPF Integratio (About WPF Integration) 0 0 0
April 11th: Posts I liked Manish Agrawal, January 1, 0001 Rob Conery has release some cool screencasts on ASP.Net MVC Storefront series: ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 2 ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 3 ... April 11th: Posts I liked 0 0 0
RockNUG IoC Container Presentation Wrapup Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I want to thank the fine folks at the Rockville .NET Users Group (RockNUG) and Dean Fiala for giving me the opportunity to speak last night. It was a record crowd last night, so I'm glad that people were ... RockNUG IoC Container Presentation Wrapup 0 0 0
Wow, We ARE Agile...or Choose Your Partner Wisely Blake Caraway, January 1, 0001 New Partner Our company is growing and the processes that support our e-commerce efforts must be ready to grow along with the business. Looking to ensure our abilities to effectively manage this growth, ... Wow, We ARE Agile...or Choose Your Partner Wisely 0 0 3
Enterprise Library 4 CTP - Improvements/Logging Application Block Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 The Enterprise Library 4 CTP and the feature list can be found at the Codeplex Home page. General Features of Entlib 4 (Excerpt from Release Notes) · Enterprise Library 4.0 takes advantage of the improved ... Enterprise Library 4 CTP - Improvements/Logging Application Block 0 0 3
IT Employee Shortage or Not? Gary Pronych, January 1, 0001 During my local Microsoft Community Connection event, one of the key topics was the IT labor shortage. Local IT PRO user group leader and MVP, Will Craddock recently described the IT shortage and added ... IT Employee Shortage or Not? 0 0 3
Unity 1.0 Released into the Wild Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 As Chris Tavares mentioned in his blog, Unity 1.0 has been released a couple of days earlier than the April 7th release date mentioned by Grigori Melnik earlier. Scott Densmore also announced this as well ... Unity 1.0 Released into the Wild 0 0 0
Why UX Matters: a Dollars and Sense Approach to Usability Blog Author, January 1, 0001 In this time of constant technological change, we as software providers are always worried about our application being replaced, outmoded or discarded. Usability research and design can keep our applications ... Why UX Matters: a Dollars and Sense Approach to Usability 0 0 0
Microsoft's IoC Container is no longer BETA - Please Welcome the ... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 One Line Statement Microsoft's IoC container Unity, hosted on CodePlex as an Application Block for Enterprise Library is now released in ver. 1.0. Introduction If you do not know what IoC is, you might ... Microsoft's IoC Container is no longer BETA - Please Welcome the ... 0 0 0
BizTalk Testing Series - Testing Pipelines Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Continuing the series of articles on testing in BizTalk, this time I am going to talk about our approach to testing pipelines. The traditional way to testing pipelines was to use the pipeline.exe tool ... BizTalk Testing Series - Testing Pipelines 0 0 2
Agile Requirements: User Stories Jay Smith, January 1, 0001 Recently, Zach Young, a colleague of mine, and I started working on a project with the goal to lean several new things. I had the idea for the application, a simple web application that would displayed ... Agile Requirements: User Stories 0 0 1
Florida Technical Communities (January 2009 Update) Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Florida has a very active developer community. The biggest problem we seem to have is that all of these different groups usually don't know about each and there hasn't been a "centralized clearinghouse" ... Florida Technical Communities (January 2009 Update) 0 0 1
Understanding AOP in .NET Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 In my previous posts I have talked a bit about Inversion of Control (IoC) containers with respect to Interception and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). It's not only important to understand the uses and ... Understanding AOP in .NET 0 0 0
IoC and Unity - Configuration Changes for the Better Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 In my previous post about Unity and IoC containers, I made note of some changes in the latest drop of the Unity Application Block. As Grigori Melnik, the PM of the Unity and Enterprise Library team noted, ... IoC and Unity - Configuration Changes for the Better 0 0 0
Microsoft EDC 2008 Website Up, Agenda Available, And Registration... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 Microsoft EDC 2008 Website is UP. You Can Click Here To Register. EDC will be April 13 and April 14 - In Cairo International Conference Center (Agenda) But Watch out. The Attendance Fee is 100 EGP. There're ... Microsoft EDC 2008 Website Up, Agenda Available, And Registration... 0 0 2
What is a ScrumMaster worth? Erik France, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I found a very interesting post over at Agile & Business. However, I did not get a chance to look at it until this morning. If you have not read it, take a look at, "What's a ScrumMaster ... What is a ScrumMaster worth? 0 0 0
Eric Hexter - About Me Eric Hexter, January 1, 0001 I thought I would take a small moment to introduce myself and give some context around my opinions. I have been developing software professionally for 12 years in consulting, product development, corporate ... Eric Hexter - About Me 0 0 1
ALT.NET Thinking From The Outside Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 As I've noted before, Dave Laribee was recently interviewed by Scott Hanselman on Episode 104 of Hanselminutes. The reaction that I've seen has been pretty positive from what I've seen. It's great to see ... ALT.NET Thinking From The Outside 0 0 0
dotNETwork Third Gathering - Thank you for coming - Slides Availa... Mohamed Meligy, January 1, 0001 Let me give a very big thank you to all of you who have come to dotNETwork 3rd gathering yesterday. To those who don't know what I'm talking about, read here :). I've enjoyed with you all Mohamed Hossam's ... dotNETwork Third Gathering - Thank you for coming - Slides Availa... 0 0 0
Looking at DSLs in .NET Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 As I've mentioned in recent posts such as here, here and here, I've been very interested in Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), especially with regards to F# and the DLR as well. I recently re-listened to ... Looking at DSLs in .NET 0 0 0
Reminder - DC ALT.NET Meeting March 19th Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Just a reminder, we will be holding it tomorrow, March 19th from 7-9PM. The meeting this month will bring ALT.NET to Arlington, Virginia. I want to thank Kevin Hegg for hosting this event. Unfortunately, ... Reminder - DC ALT.NET Meeting March 19th 0 0 0
Red, Green, Refactor Will Smith, January 1, 0001 There are some key practices that all Agile developers should be familiar with. In fact, "familiar" probably isn't strong enough. One of these practices is test-driven development (TDD). As one of the ... Red, Green, Refactor 0 0 2
Why I'm Excited About ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Update: Catch Dave Laribee on Hanselminutes discussing ALT.NET here. It's almost a month away until ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle and things are coming along nicely. As you may have noted, we filled up ... Why I'm Excited About ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle 0 0 0
DC ALT.NET Meeting - March 19th Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 I've held off recently announcing the DC ALT.NET meeting due to scheduling issues. Anyhow, that has been resolved and we are good to go. We will be holding it on March 19th from 7-9PM. The meeting this ... DC ALT.NET Meeting - March 19th 0 0 0
Community Connection Events - Regina and Saskatoon Next Week! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I'm really looking forward to heading to Regina (March 18) and Saskatoon (March 19) next week to participate in their community connection events, hosted in support of the VS.NET 2008 launch events by ... Community Connection Events - Regina and Saskatoon Next Week! 0 0 4
RockNUG Meeting 3/12/2008 - Refactoring in C# Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 The Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 from 6:30PM-9:00PM. This month, they'll be having a pretty interesting topic on refactoring in ... RockNUG Meeting 3/12/2008 - Refactoring in C# 0 0 0
dotNETwork 3rd Gathering - I'll be talking rather than blogging, ... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 dotNETwork third gathering has been announced. It's Saturday of the 3rd week of the month as planned since the 2nd gathering. If you are unfamiliar with dotNETwork as a whole, that's simply (as I mentioned ... dotNETwork 3rd Gathering - I'll be talking rather than blogging, ... 0 0 0
Sessions Galore Chris Eargle, January 1, 0001 I've been busy since the South Florida Code Camp. I've been promoted to the Architecture Team on the South Carolina Integrated Tax System project, and I've been to two more code camps. The speaker list ... Sessions Galore 0 0 0
IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Update: IoC and Unity - The Basics and Interception As Grigori Melnik noted on my blog previously as well as his own, there was a brand new drop of the Unity Application Block as of March 4th. This by ... IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore 0 0 0
Controlling Chaos - We Got Owned Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 It figures that the week after I decide to start blogging more about work that we would have the most chaotic week ever. Development is an ongoing battle with chaos, and this week, chaos brought a much ... Controlling Chaos - We Got Owned 0 0 0
Links of the Month (Feb08) Kurt Claeys, January 1, 0001 I'll try to post every month some interesting links (to blogsposts, articles, white books and other content) I noticed on the net in the last month during professional daily work or from personal interests ... Links of the Month (Feb08) 0 0 1
Socket errors in WCF netTcpBinding Prasanna Krishnan, January 1, 0001 i just finished writing Windows service host for my WCF services, there were no crash or exceptions thrown either by client or server, I was just browing event log to check things were fine, then noticed ... Socket errors in WCF netTcpBinding 0 0 2
DC ALT.NET Wrapup and CI Factory Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Well, due to the weather beyond our control, the crowd was a bit smaller than expected at the February meeting of DC ALT.NET. It seems people panic in the Washington DC area if there is even a hint of ... DC ALT.NET Wrapup and CI Factory 0 0 0
.Net 3.5 - MVC Will Smith, January 1, 0001 I received the "okay" today to develop our new application in .Net 3.5. This is really great news. I am looking forward to taking advantage of some of the new technologies available. In particular, I will ... .Net 3.5 - MVC 0 0 1
Agile is Dead; Long Live Agile... Scott Miller, January 1, 0001 Working in corporate America, in a company that does not solely do software development as a product or service, has its challenges. As an example, hardware and software are always "good enough". I have ... Agile is Dead; Long Live Agile... 0 0 2
IoC and the Unity Application Block Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Update: Fixed code changed from CTP and More in the series: IoC and the Unity Application Block - Going Deeper IoC and the Unity Application Block Once Again IoC Containers, Unity and ObjectBuilder2 - ... IoC and the Unity Application Block 0 0 2
GAX/GAT February 2008 Final Release Steve Eadie, January 1, 0001 I go away for a weekend thinking meh what could happen between now and Monday, well I'm really pleased to say that GAX 1.4 is with us!!! or as per this screen grab GAX 1.0 ???? :) Yeah Baby GAT/GAX (sorry ... GAX/GAT February 2008 Final Release 0 0 1
Development Environments and Home Networking Gary Pronych, January 1, 0001 You won't find me on the next episode of 'Show us your Home' geek edition (Check out Scott Hanselman's); I am not that hardcore, but I have a similar setup which (IMO) is worthwhile for you @home developers. ... Development Environments and Home Networking 0 0 0
GAX/GAT February 2008 Release Jose Escrich, January 1, 0001 Finally, and after a grand effort, we got a final release of GAX/GAT February 2008 Release. Mainly the most important improvements are that now you can use GAX side by side with Visual Studio 2005 and ... GAX/GAT February 2008 Release 0 0 0
Agile Statement of Work Will Smith, January 1, 0001 I've been working on the Statement of Work (SOW) for the new project I am involved with. The client is looking for a lot of detail. Initially, I shared my concern about putting too much detail in this ... Agile Statement of Work 0 0 2
Ever crack the screen of a favorite gadget? Lorin Thwaits, January 1, 0001 Sometimes I'm a really early adopter. So early that I buy stuff in Japan the moment it becomes available. I've got a well-loved HDV camera that I got two and a half years ago that way. Hard to believe ... Ever crack the screen of a favorite gadget? 0 0 22