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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

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 140: I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time...
Posted 11 February 2007 01:39 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: .NET, Software Architecture, TDD, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Agile, ADO.NET, Banking, Financial, Orcas, WPF, Visual Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation, SQL Server

New and Notable 139: Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible...
Posted 05 February 2007 11:02 PM by Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: .NET, Software Architecture, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, ADO.NET, Banking, Financial, LINQ, Orcas, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

Revisiting First WPF Program on Vista: Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista . Now, that Vista is really out, and there is a ton of excitement about WPF on blogs lately, I have been ramping up again on WPF. I spent about 4 hours...
Posted 04 February 2007 06:54 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: .NET, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

New and Notable 138: I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch...
Posted 30 January 2007 03:10 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET, ASP.NET, SOA, WF, Windows Workflow, Software Architecture, Windows Vista, Microsoft, LINQ, Orcas, WinForms, Workflow, AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, Office 2007

Windows Vista Disappointing on Launch: So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion...
Posted 30 January 2007 12:51 PM by Sam Gentile | 10 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Longhorn

New and Notable 129: Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues...
Posted 28 November 2006 05:08 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: CLR, WCF, SOA, WF, Software Architecture, WCF/Indigo, Windows Vista, Microsoft, BPM, LINQ, Workflow, Software Development, PLINQ

New and Notable 126: I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what...
Posted 18 November 2006 01:12 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Agile Development, SOA, Software Architecture, Agile and Extreme Programming, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Software Development

Vista RTM Installed: I just upgraded my main machine from RC2 to RTM. The upgrade took over 3 hours in compute setup time! So far, I'm seriously underwhelmed but that could because I have used RC2 every day for weeks and maybe I'm missing something but: NVidia GeForce...
Posted 18 November 2006 12:14 AM by Sam Gentile | 16 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft

Sept .NET FW 3 Installed on Vista RC1 (5600): Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK...
Posted 01 October 2006 05:16 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

September CTP, Orcas Tools, I'm So Confused!: As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience...
Posted 30 September 2006 07:41 PM by Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Communication Foundation, Indigo, WCF, Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

Vista RC1 Experiences Highly Variable: I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't...
Posted 21 September 2006 06:33 PM by Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft, Avalon, WPF

Vista RC1 and Ready to Go: My friend Shawn says , " Yes, I said upgrading XP! The good news is that is build is very very good. Not perfect, but very good! I am able to use it as my main box " about Pre-RC Build 5536. I agree 1000%. Since my install a few days ago, I...
Posted 01 September 2006 11:12 PM by Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Vista, Microsoft