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New and Notable 152: Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from...
Posted 26 March 2007 12:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, Agile Development, .NET, NHibernate, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Orcas, O/RM

New and Notable 151: Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework...
Posted 23 March 2007 11:31 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: CLR, Agile Development, .NET, NHibernate, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Data, Microsoft, Agile, Entity Framework, Orcas, OR/M, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 150!!: 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...
Posted 22 March 2007 02:24 AM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 149: Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up...
Posted 18 March 2007 01:02 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, ASP.NET, NHibernate, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Data, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Entity Framework, MonoRail, Orcas, OR/M, PAG, REST, ADO.NET 3.0

All I Can Say is a Big Amen!: This says it all.
Posted 15 March 2007 04:22 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Agile Development, .NET, Extreme Programming, Data, Microsoft, Agile, MVP, Entity Framework, Orcas, VSTS, Visual Studio, Team System, ADO.NET 3.0, ORM

MVP Summit Wednesday - Tour of PAG Agile Development Facilities: A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as...
Posted 14 March 2007 11:07 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Agile Development, .NET, Extreme Programming, Microsoft, Agile, MVP, Entity Framework, Orcas, XP, ADO.NET 3.0

New and Notable 148: Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with...
Posted 07 March 2007 04:08 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, TDD, Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Agile, .NET Framework 3, Avalon, Orcas, WPF, PAG, REST

New and Notable 146: Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software...
Posted 24 February 2007 02:12 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Smart Client, Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, Microsoft MVP, Rails, PAG, REST

New and Notable 145: Architecture/SOA Blaine Wastell has posted that PAG planning an update of the Smart Client Software Factory to be released in late April of this year. They are encouraging feedback at http://www.codeplex.com/smartclient and enter critical items into the...
Posted 21 February 2007 01:21 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Smart Client, Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3, LINQ, Microsoft MVP, PAG

Latest on Agile Project, Reorgs, and Interop: In a post on January 25th , I said, "I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do ." I provided a concise list of the methodologies...
Posted 19 February 2007 08:53 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Extreme Programming, Microsoft, Agile, Apache Axis, Financial and Banking, Java, Collateral Management

Our .NET 3.0 Enterprise Application and Architecture Shipped: I posted yesterday that we had shipped our Enterprise Collateral Management solution based on our new architecture. As I said, we still have a lot more to do. Several people have asked and many have been interested in the continuing blog posts that I...
Posted 25 January 2007 03:48 PM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Extreme Programming, Microsoft, Agile

New and Notable 136: Architecture More competition! No, I am very glad to see my good friend and Architect Harry start a series like mine and Mike's with his Morning Coffee 10 . I'm going to have to quicken the pace-) Software Development/Tools JetBrains has released...
Posted 16 January 2007 06:17 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, Software Architecture, Extreme Programming, Microsoft, Team City, IDE

New and Notable 134: 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 -...
Posted 10 January 2007 05:46 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, .NET, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Agile, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 131: I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't...
Posted 14 December 2006 08:46 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: CLR, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Microsoft, Avalon, Software Development, Windows Presentation Foundation

Agile Project Use of CAB: Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance...
Posted 04 December 2006 03:11 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Agile Development, CAB, SCBAT, Software Architecture, Extreme Programming, Smart Clients, Microsoft, Agile, MVP, Software Development, OCC