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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced...
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SOA/REST/WOA [REST] What's Missing in REST? RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together Malik's Laws of Service Oriented Architecture Also read the response here and then all the comments back and forth above. Great dialogue. Technorati...
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Jeremy, as always, has a lot of interesting things to say in his latest Train of Thought . I agree with most of what he said, in particular with evolutionary design, as Steve Eichert and I practiced it at Algo . It is important to not "allow your...
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Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008 SDK is available here for download David Kean announces FxCop 1.36 Release SaaS/Cloud Computing/REST/WCF David Chappell has published A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms Scott Hanselman looks at Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc...
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ASP.NET MVC Lots of activity on the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. First, I heard from Scott Hanselman on Twitter, about the 5 free chapters to 5 new MVC books Then, via Steven , the addition of 15 new ASP.NET MVC videos and tutorials. Of special...
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Otherwise known, as "Return of the Giant Hogweed " Once upon a time , .NET was so new that there wasn't a Visual Studio .NET yet (the beta crashed every 5 minutes so you couldn't use it even if you wanted to), no books, few blogs and...
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Enterprise Architecture Bob has, once again, collected a superb collection of Enterprise Architecture links in his latest Carnival ASP.NET In his latest tip , Steve demonstrates how to unit test the LINQ to SQL DataContext by using a Fake DataObject....
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A quick one while I am on vacation. .NET 3.5 SP1 Mr. Hanselman has come out with the mother of all .NET 3.5 SP1 posts with Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post , which includes coverage of all the areas including my WCF changes . Announcing Entity...
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As Cliff announces , CSD is partnering up with my friends Aaron and the PluralSight folks on a new weekly .NET developer screencast series to show how to accomplish tasks in WF/WCF 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This week, for the inaugural screencast, CSD...
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As I listed in this post on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 , there are a bunch of significant additions to WCF in SP1. The list looks pretty focused towards REST services and the Web. It's no secret that many developers are looking to REST and the simpler...
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Patrick uses the awesome power of the assembly comparison feature of the tool NDepend to show exactly how much more there is in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: Summary: # Assemblies 112 # Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) # Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%...
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I already did my " Inessential List of Tools " back some time ago but yesterday, in the attempted install of the new VS2008 SP1 , I found that the so-called Hotfix Cleanup Utility would not work for me. Nothing was really working to remove the...
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Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen...
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CSD/WF/WCF/Oslo We start today with Cliff Simpkins in CSD at Microsoft who lets us know about a new batch of papers, demos and guides in various downloads, mostly pertaining to WF. Great stuff! Pay particular attention to the release of Patterns &...
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ASP.NET Via Brad Abrams , The Visual Web Development team has started a “Tips of the Week” blog series where they will share some great ideas at http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/default.aspx . Did You Know… Tip #1 – Powerful...