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I heard a lot of feedback back when I started my new personal blog and before when I started a new home portal on Office Live, that I should consolidate my web properties back around samgentile.com. To this point. it has been rather difficult because of the way we set up it was convoluted. An old version of DNN was interwined with a very old version of Scott W's original .Text engine for the old blog. Attempts to upgrade DNN 4.1 were unsuccessfull. Well, after a week of working with webhost4life and having my whole SQL database blown away, facing horrors of losing my valuable first 4 years of blogging, I have gotten samgentile.com outfitted with DNN 4.1. However, they were not able to directly upgrade because of the intertwining and we can't just redirect to the subdirectory we used because that would screw up the http://samgentile.com/blog so the net is that http://dnn4.samgentile.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.as px and http://samgentile.com will have a link to it. The new DNN4.1 is nice and I am experimenting with skins. The one I have right now is quite nice and professional but looks great only in IE and overlaps on Firefox. I am still working on it. Sorry for all the mess. I will be moving back everything from the Office Live Essentials site over the next few days. The Personal Blog remains on WordPress for now. Summary: CB Blog: http://codebetter.com/blogs/sam.gentile/ Home: http://dnn4.samgentile.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx Personal Blog: http://sgentile.wordpress.com/ Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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I referred to my frustration in my post yesterday about "not really getting to post what you really want to." That is, to some extent, the catch of blogging in general, that there is a lot you can't say in "professional" blogs. I am an expressive person by nature. The second aspect is being on codebetter.com . I feel that CodeBetter is one of the best and most consistent sites in the development community and that we have made a huge difference in bring a whole aspect of Continuous Design and other state of the art development practices. I like to think we are helping to change the .NET community one post at a time from the drag & drop RAD mess to the disciplined TDD/Design Patterns/DI/Agile/Architecture world that we would like the .NET community to become; that there is another way besides just running Visual Studio; that investing in your craft and job makes a world of difference. With all that comes a great pressure on what I can blog. Now don't get me wrong: NO ONE at CB has ever said what I can or can not post. I have been given 100% freedom. I just feel an internal pressure to maintain extraordinarily high standards. Moreover, every once in a while, if I slip in something not mind blowing latest Agile post but personal or whatever, I might get some reader (rarely) saying "what is this ***?" My feelings really get hurt as I have blogged consistently relevant .NET content over 5 years in this community , something that only Simon Fell can also claim (Peter Drayton doesn't blog anymore). But it also produces a bit of anger in me as I stated from day one here, that I was going to blog what I want, whenever I want and that no one is paying me for doing this . I spend hours on each N&N post for instance. Thus there is no right for people to have expectations that they are entitled to something. If someone doesn't like a blog, get your own. It's also as easy to unsubscribe. That being said, I have thousands of loyal readers and there is huge degree of satisfaction Read More...
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This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "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 seperate posts." I wish I had the discipline of Mike because if I posted daily I would be well towards 1000 instead of 150-) but hey I'm pretty proud of my record. I love this community and in the last 25 years this community (and Microsoft) have been real good to me and my family. I hope that what I have been picking here has been of good use to the community to keep you informed on key .NET activities as well as the architectural and design side. Thus, I go forth and pick: Entity Framework, ADO.NET 3, Orcas, MVP Summit One of the best writers in the community today is certainly Jeremy Miller . His latest post, MVP Summit Recapped: Linq for Entities, MonoRail, and Shameless Name Dropping , is a fine example of why. In one post, he is able to write quite elequently on complex subjects like the subtle design flaws in Entity Framework 3 and why WF 4 will rock your world. He is able to take a technology, stick to his design principles and stand his ground, educating and helping all involved achieve something better than was there before. He certainly wasn't the only one of us doing that but his post really captures the core design principles of no infrastructure code in business logic classes. Infrastructure is Infrastructure, business logic is business logic. We want the same thing: No marker interfaces, no codegen, no partial classes. Just plain "PO" and support for the Unit of Work pattern. David Laribee also talks on this area and makes clear that its a vision thing that doesn't really compare to NHibernate which is just OR/M; it's a full Read More...
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I haven't talked a lot about what we do . We do work in the Financial and especially Banking sectors as our product is sold into at least 64 of the world's largest banks. As I develop more into my role here as a division/Enterprise Architect, I meet more and more with key CTOs and others at large instutions like Credit Suisse, I wanted to start playing a larger role in theese sectors themselves and advancing standards like we're doing with our SOA and the movement from CSV files to XML schema based definitions. As such I have started this Financial and Banking Vertical Category on my blog and will start to blog in this area. I found a couple of very good Microsoft resources in this area that I would like to list: MSDN Financial Services Industry Center The Banking Integration Factory looks extremely promising. Anyone know what state this is in? When bits? MSDN Banking Industry Center Mike Walker's Blog Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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Saturday morning , I let both fustration and excessive over-admiration for Vista features cloud my judgement and I created a really bad, non-objective post. As several readers let me know, they value what I write, and being objective. This post was none of that and that is not acceptable as I hold myself to very high standards. It came off as a zealot's rant, was full of speculation and worse yet, errors. I like to think that I am Man/person enough to be the first to admit my failings here. I ask all of my readers to look at that and continue to read my blog. I value each and every one of my readers and I especially appreciate those who kept me honest. Thanks! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents. I think Stadium Arcadium is their best album since Blood, Sex, Magic (which they pulled out the title song the other night!!). You can't beat a start of Can't Stop-> Dani California! Mars Volta is one of my favorite bands (although hard to take at times) and I am listening to the brilliant new Ampheture right now which they played in full the other night. Live, they come off as a wall of sonic noise and Bixler-Zavala wailing singing, an assault on the senses that drove people nuts (my wife wanted to leave!) and their greatness only came through in sporadic moments (Viscera Eyes). Okay, a lot of stuff today. Number one, I want to congratulate my good friend and master of these types of posts, Mike Gunderloy for hitting The Daily Grind 1000 !! Mike is an incredible asset to the community and a terrific writer to boot. If you are one of the rare people not already subscribed, get your ass over there this minute and make it so! I have started to write (for work) a Workflow XOML loader and executor. I want to do something like XamlPad or even Snippet Compiler to execute my workflows. I have the hosting of the runtime down and loading the XAML/XOML. More later. WCF/SOA/Indigo/BizTalk/Workflow/Distributed .NET Another good friend of mine, Tomas Restepo. has some great stuff: He released his MSMQ Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation. He addresses MsmqListenerService concerns with the above Gets answers for the question of how to get the SOAP Action associated with a given operation when all you have is the OperationDescription for it Points to Ralph Squillace s post an walkthrough entry of how metadata publication (MEX + WSDL) is enabled in Windows Communication Read More...
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I noticed that my Feedburner feed picked up a couple of hundred subscribers all of a sudden and wasn't sure why. I know I was good in Syracuse but there weren't that many people-)). I was floored and honored to learn that Scott Hanselman , in his 2 5th Hanselminutes , had listed me in his 20 or so Favorite Blogs and had highly recomended my blog for my New and Notable posts as well as saying nice things. Scott is, of course, a giant in our community and I highly recomend you read his blog as well as subscribe to his show. For new readers, I started this blog in March 2002, when there were only Peter Drayton , Simon Fell , and myself as Microsoft blogs. I was an " Interop Beast " as Scott and Carl talk about but lately, I post a lot about my daily experiences in being an Architect & Lead on an Agile team that has been actually using Indigo/WCF for almost a year now. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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I am very pleased that two of my good friends, James Avery and Jim Hol mes are working on a most excellent book, Windows Developer Power Tools. I was helping Jim with some WCF stuff and now I am a full fledged Tech Reviewer with all the benefits such as lack of sleep that come with it-). Anyhow, I can't say anything other than boy is this book going to rock !! But don't take my word on it, see nine chapters on Safari Rough Cuts ! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...
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