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I have spent a lot of time through the night and some today to try to get my personal blog in order after the Mac options didn't pan out. We have a really important, large external release going out to two external banks next Friday but we stopped this week's Iteration to fix bugs that had been found. In XP, you don't keep going when you have bugs, you stop and fix them. VSTS/TFS TFS is still way too hard to install. The install that my experienced IT guy started last week finally got done last night and took him roughly 16 hours of work time to install including SQL Server 2005 Standard. That is still way too long. To "breadboard" TFS, I am putting in my Workflow Architectural Spikes. More later. Technorati Tags: .NET , VSTS , TFS , Team FoiFinancial and Banking , Extreme Programming , Agile , Agile Development , Workflow , K2 , Windows Workflow , Mocks Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems - yesterday, he and I optimized a section of the system where an operation was taking 25 to 30 minutes and got it down to 30 seconds! Now that's a good boost! I have much in my head concerning where we are at and my current feelings on being agile, architecture and such but they will have to wait. I tried to blog about the Apple iPhone announcement but couldn't muster up enough interest... Architecture and SOA, Agile SOA and BI Impendence Mismatch Arnon has great comments on a presentation (via Shahid Sah's blog) by Ron Jacobs on the Software Architect's Role. he says, "In this presentation, entitled Architects and the Architecture of Software , Ron compares the architect's role to that of an explorer, advocate, and designer," and "However, I would personally replace "advocate" with "mentor", and "explorer" with a "polymath" or "Renaissance" man. I'd also add a leader and visionary (although Ron mentions that as part of the discussion on explorer)." I agree with his additions, at least how I see my role. He also has some outstanding comments on Agile Iterations and what I really want to write about (and finding) when I have time: "To me, that is just a reminder why JEDUF is important. I find that in projects that are large or overly complex "sacrificing" one, two, or even three iterations for handling technical risks and forming a candidate architecture goes a long way ( and I don't care if this makes my project not agile. I am fine if it is pliant , lagum or what-not)." I am actually finding its quite a bit more than 1-3 Iterations depending on the project and environment. Actually this ties in with Jim's Design Maps . Cazz on Building Software Factories Today Richard Venyard on SOA Algebra WCF/Indigo Harry finds Indigo daunting Read More...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial combined with an Agile sense with CAB Smart Clients in an Agile World Part 1 , and Part 2 Microsoft Software Factory Architect Jack Greenfield on Ad-Hoc and Systematic Reuse where he differentiates the two and points out that the "i n the software factories book , we explain that systematic reuse is effective, but ad hoc reuse is not." Indigo/WCF/SOA/BPM/BPEL/Workflow More goodness from Tomas with IServiceBehavior, IDispatchMessageInspector, and Endpoints A pair from the master, David Chappell, with Why BEPL is Like Bytecode , and Standardizing the Right Thing: BPMN or BPEL? Avoiding OneWay Deadlocks from Nicholas Allen Data/SQL Server CTP6 of Data Dude (i.e. VSTS for Database Pros) is out . Cameron has the scoop on the new features. Other/Tools IE7 has made it out of beta and is released The very useful CodeSmith is out in a public Beta 4.2 Agile Martin Fowler calls it the ImprovementRavine Pattern: " If you care about what you do, you care about getting better at it. This involves reflecting about how you do things, and trying out new techniques to see if they make you better. Even if other people recommend new techniques, the only way you know if they work for you is by trying them out yourself and seeing if they improve your performance.The trouble is that improvement, particularly with new techniques isn't linear. Often there is a ravine that opens up when you try a new strategy ." Seventeen Tips for Iteration Planning [from Agile Advice ] Technorati Tags: SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , Windows Communication Foundation , Software Architecture , BPEL , Data , Agile , Agile Development , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public release on MSDN Extreme Programming/Agile I'm thrilled to see my good friend and Agile Guru Jim Shore's announcement about his first fully-accredited XP course !! Jim is a consultant on my team and he can make your organization go wicked fast and produce great software too. Notice, "XP course", not Agile. Interview with Andy Hunt (of Pragmatic Programmers) on thier new book, Practices of an Agile Developer TDD Worst Practice: Test Driven Debugging ; I hate when people do this and say they are doing TDD. I've said it once, I'll say it again; if you are spending time in the debugger for logic and business verification, you are wasting your companies money and time. Write a test. The debugger is only for very weird, intractable exceptional situations where there is no other recourse. If you see every testing situation this way, well you need to learn about TDD-) ...more coming CLR Greg Young continues his exceptional blogging at a level that excites me with Performance: String Reverse . I better get back to my CLR Internals blogging before Greg blows me off the scene-)) Indigo/WCF/SOA Fellow Codebetter blogger Steve Herbert continues with Asynchronous Web Service Calls - The Truth Behind the Begin...End...Functions Part 2 Tools/Community Microsoft has aquired SysInternals . I'm both thrilled and scared. Obviously they are buying the talents of Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, both of which know Windows Internals better than, well, most of the Windows team-). I'm scared for what will happen to the best free tools on the planet and frankly tools that must be installed with every new or repaved system. I'd advise you to go download them now while you still can. As both Scott and I have said, Mike Gunderloy is the supreme master of these kind Read More...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most excellent series on Obfuscation , this time on String Encryption . However, the word on the street is that a certain retired Godfather may be coming back and regaining his territories in points further south -) Agile I am really excited about Jim Shore's new book on Extreme Programming . I am excited about two things in TAAD; one, mainstream practical and two, pure XP and not diluted Agile He has posted the first section on Pair Programming online for review Espresso Fueled Development comments on how he Talks About Agile Visual Studio/Team System I am thrilled to see Sara Ford post the Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals and the use of SCRUM for fast releases. I really loved the VS2003 toys but they are so like three years ago-) and having used solely Whidbey the past 1.5 - 2 years, I would love to see VS2005 toys Rob Caron reports that, " Michael Ruminer launched a project on CodePlex to develop a version control tree browser for Team Foundation Version Control ( TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser ). See more on his blog. Korby (BTW, thanks for your phone call but I didn't make it to TechEd!), speaks of Martin Woodward of Teamprise , who explains how to set up CI for CodePlex projects using CruiseControl.NET. Technorati Tags: CLR , .NET , Team System , VSTS , Visual Studio , New and Notable , Ruby , WCF , Windows Communication Foundation , SOA , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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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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