June 2007 - Posts

Friday, June 29, 2007 1:10 PM

Primary Entry Focus

I was reading the great Neopoleon's Blog last night and realized two things, I should add a bit more "pizzaz" (as they say on Dethklok's Metacalypse) or A.K.A. personal diatribe.    I've been just kind of spurting out some overly general, random,
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:04 PM

Windows Workflow Increases Coolness Factor

After making it through about 200+ pages of the book Essential Windows Workflow Foundation by Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt I discovered two capabilities that I really like about the Workflow Foundation.  The first is the database tables provided
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:42 PM

Reactive Programs and Windows Workflow Ramblings

I've started working heavily with Windows Workflow.  It seems this foundation from Microsoft is being heavily undersold in my opinion.  What one can do with this base is massive, at least for enterprise solutions, and in many a case for almost
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:38 PM

Ever Use the Application Blocks?

Then ya should definitely check out the Patterns and Practices Guidance Site.  That's it for this entry, just one site.
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Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:03 PM

Installing all the .NET Stuff

I've really been doing tons of hard core dev work with some of the newer .NET 3.0 technologies lately.  The project that is underway currently has been utilizing the WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) since it was beta and the SCSF (Smart
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:44 PM

Law of Demeter :: Tip O' The Day

An important thing to remember when developing software is that readability and reliability are key to the future use and maintenance of the software.  This is especially true in the code.  One of the key laws that applies to this is the "Law
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:13 PM

Human Multi-Tasking Ponderings

It seems silly, but here I am again sitting and developing in 2 different solutions at the same time. Two seperate instances of Visual Studio open compiling, checking in, checking out, updating, building, etcetera, etcetera. Meanwhile multiple conversations
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:46 AM

Software Development Testing :: Tip O' The Day

Know your testing definitions!  Knowing what types of tests there are, what they do, and what they're used for is very important. Unit Testing from Wikipedia "In computer programming, unit testing is a procedure used to validate that individual
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Friday, June 15, 2007 10:05 PM

Software Architect?

I got to thinking recently, "what makes a software architect a software architect?"  With that thought I then delved into the various degrees and ideas about what differentiates an architect from a senior developer.  With even more thought I
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:03 PM

Generics :: Tip O' The Day

Many people find Generics confusing.  I hope that I can add to some confusion reduction with a quick demonstration of some standard Generics usages in the C# .NET 2.0 world. The type-safety of C# prevents potential errors by catching them at compile
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 9:53 AM

Bid Up?

So I was, as I do every week, just looking through the job postings to see the types of things that are posting, what percentages of jobs are out there, and what the rates are.  It is, as a consultant, very important to keep up with all those things. 
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Friday, June 08, 2007 10:36 PM

Lean, Agile, Death Marches, and Get'n er' Done!

Every year there are literally dozens, hundreds, possibly even thousands of software projects that fail.  The projects that fail range in scope and price.  Project efforts of a few hundred dollars to the behemoth project of tens or hundreds
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Friday, June 08, 2007 1:15 PM

AJAX, Atlas, and Lots of Videos

While working on some AJAX and module add-ins for Community Server 2007 I started checking out the videos on the www.asp.net site.  Definitely some good material and something that almost any web developer should be checking out.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:39 PM

Icky CAB

Ok, I've been using CAB, the SCSF, in "pseudo kinda sort of" Model View Presenter Pattern usage.  The application that is being developed definitely uses the core of the mentioned products.  Recently as I read some techno babble by Glenn
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Monday, June 04, 2007 12:12 AM

Can't Read Office 2007 File Formats?

Hit up this download and you should be set.  This will open current formats in Office 2003 from what I understand.  I'm officially migrated/moving to Office 2007 for my own personal work.  The new interface is crazy cool. If you dig PDF
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:18 PM

SCSF - Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007

So I just realized the latest SCSF has been released.  This is a software package that we've been using for the entire project that I've been on for almost a year now.  The SCSF has saved us tons of time, even though it is somewhat cumbersome
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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:41 AM

Important Reads, Notes, and Ideas to Grasp

Anti-Patterns are dangerous, Patterns are cool, and useful, and good, and life saving, and career advancing, and...  you get the point.  Avoid the anti-patterns, live healthy. Patterns don't work if refactoring is not frequent enough to
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