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New and Notable 194: Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are...
Posted 28 September 2007 09:59 AM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, ASP.NET, SOA, Windows Vista, Connected Systems, CSD, Service Oriented Architecture, AJAX, IIS7, Windows Server 2008

Things Working a Lot Better and Kudos to Alienware and MSFT Support: I am no longer so worried about the Alienware and Vista. I called Alienware and they sat on the phone until we fixed the wireless driver and everything else I was concerned about. They gave me a number for Microsoft Vista Ultimate support and they were...
Posted 23 April 2007 10:01 PM by Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Alienware

Starting to Worry about Its the Alienware Causing Vista Problems: I am really starting to worry that either I got a lemon Alienware or as someone noted its a fickle machine with drivers and such. Many of the problems I listed here may be indeed be the Alienware as I had a pretty decent Vista experience before besides...
Posted 23 April 2007 04:15 PM by Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Alienware

Weather: I am writing this poolside where the weather is in the 80's. After both running 3 miles around the lake this morning and an hour strength training in the Gym, we went by Verizon where I bought a Verizon Broadband card and this *does* work in Vista...
Posted 22 April 2007 06:33 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Windows Vista, Verizon

Does Anything Work in Vista??: This may be the only time in my life where I actually willingly downgraded an OS. I detailed all sorts of frustrations with Vista in this post . That's just that start: Orcas does not compile programs in Vista (Ok, its beta, but Vista should be a...
Posted 22 April 2007 01:28 PM by Sam Gentile | 21 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Alienware

iMac Gets 2GB, Sam and Parallels Happy: I complained in the past that my Dual-Core iMac was very slow at 512MB. Leaving aside the question of whether Apple should even sell this system without 1GB in it, I went and bought 2GB and put it in. Wow, it's like a whole new machine! OS/X and Aqua...
Posted 01 April 2007 03:13 PM by Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Vista, Rails, Mono , iMac, Ruby on Rails, Parallels

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