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  • New and Notable 110

    Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and tried to morph it into the Agile Unified Process (AUP) . I have a lot of respect for Scott and his huge contributions to many areas of Agile but I am frankly sick and tired of making Extreme Programming politically correct for brain-dead software companies and watering it down further and further with these kind of things. The tendency these days is to further dulute "Agile" (I hate that term) methodologies to make them palatable. Enough. [via Mike] Ayende on Rhino Mock Limitations The 5C's of Agile SCM Brian Marick list the things on his mind as he goes to Agile 2006. Also see his Reafctoring, Redefine d Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First Ruby/Rails Rails Not a DSL or Ruby a DSL? CLR The BCL team wants to add arbitrary length Integer/arbitrary precision Double classes and would like your feedback Brad Abrams announces a very good looking video cast series from Microsoft teams: Live from Redmond . I notice that Steve Lasker is doing the first one on Smart Client: Offline Data Synchronization and Caching for Smart Clients. I looked at and used some of Steve's stuff by permission when I was presenting on Occassionally Connected Smart Clients and it is great stuff! All the other talks look great as well. Greg continues to rock with Method Calls: Part 1 (Normal Calls) Avalon/WPF/Smart Clients The man, Charles Petzold has shipped his Avalon book to the printers. This is one that I am highly anticpating! Peter was interviewed by Dr. Dobb's Journal on CAB , the Smart Client Software Factory and Agile Software Development . WCF/SOA Tomas on Async Web Calls and the 2-Call Limit Data/LINQ/OR/M Ralf Lämmel and Erik Meijer. Revealing the X/O Read More...
  • New and Notable 100! The Big 100!

    On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts ." I still believe that today but I have not been so great about "daily" or I would have been over 500, but here I am over 3 years later with number 100! While I am still in Mike emulation mode, I would like to do something like he did for the "Tell a Friend" and contest. I don't want to blatantly copy his contest (maybe I do!) but I want to double the readership of this blogs. If you get anything out of these posts and the blog, I'd love if you told someone else to subscribe. In the meantime , I'd love to hear from you on this blog on what you think might increase readership as well as your experience. So we have today: My co-worker and pair programmer today Steve questions Microsoft’s strategy on releasing two OR/M solutions. Andres (and Frans on the comments) also question this. I agree that this is just going to confuse the developer totally when they need to use the technology. Ayende agrees that this is madness. I’d rather see a single OR/M solution based on LINQ that is extensible . Again, Andres , “ I went to TechEd Keynote today and I almost got asleep. Then Chloe appeared and it was the only excuse I had to not to leave before it finished” Have you checked out http://www.seewindowsvista.com/ ? It is a very cool way to see some amazing things that developers are doing with Vista and .NET Framework 3.0. [via Brad ] The Indigo group has released the " Windows Communication Foun dation RSS Toolkit " on the new community site . This toolkit, which comes with complete source code, illustrates how to expose ATOM and RSS feeds through WCF endpoints SCBAT has been upgraded to a new, soon to be released version of GAT and GAX Craig announces msdnman Microsoft is preparing a third IE 7 Read More...

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