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Much ado has been made in the recent months about the impending death of . This week, at BUILD, Microsoft has finally stepped up
and shown us what their view of the future is. Note t...
While many people are getting actual precipitational flurries, it seemed like a good
time to create a flurry of my own. Well, okay, it's really just that I've had some
time off thanks to the holidays...
The good folks over at Microsoft have released
their Silverlight Toolkit today
(or I guess yesterday, now). It's a good start to complement what you get in
the core/box. I personally found the AutoCom...
I just ran across Alan
Cooper's keynote at Agile 2008. The gist is that he's making the case for
integrating interaction design into Agile development, something that is near and
dear to me, as well....
I'm heading out to San Francisco Monday to get my UX on at UX Week 2008! It's my first
time both in the city and at that conference. Looking forward to meeting new folks
and talking about making grea...
Wrox has started a new thing as of late they're calling Wrox
First. It's essentially a wiki of the book that I and my fellow Silverlight
2 authors are working on--Silverlight 2 Programmer's
Reference...
I haven't done any research, so maybe it is out there. But I had a thought the
other day as I accepted yet another invite to connect from yet another social networking
site from someone I have connec...
Just reading the first article in the latest edition of Microsoft's The Architecture
Journal. It's called "We Don't Need No Architects" by Joseph
Hofstader. I thought, oh good, someone voicing a di...
I'm becoming more and more averse to the term architecture and architect in terms
of creating software, partially because it is such an overloaded term that seems to
cause so much continual opining a...
In his article, "Who
Needs an Architect?", Martin Fowler says:
At a fascinating talk at the XP 2002 conference1, Enrico Zaninotto, an
economist, analyzed the underlying thinking behind agile ideas...
For those of you that don't keep an eye on my work blog, my team at Infragistics just
published a new Silverlight
2 sample application, faceOut, using prototypes of Infragistics' Silverlight controls...
Far be it from me to put words in Phil's mouth, but I hope that folks recognize that
his post about favoring
composition over inheritance is not specifically about that one best practice
(the comment...
I'm so pumped! I just got my SQL Toolbelt mug from Red
Gate. I proudly display it on my desk (below) and in meetings. :)
The mug reads (this is awesome): "You may look at my Red Gate mug. You
may n...
Previously, I
mentioned I was working onan example of using Visual Studio to create a
concrete domain
model using object thinking, and here it is. The domain I ended up modeling
was that of a shared ...
I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher
Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).
The last part of the book is call...
As I sit here on the train home, I've been thinking (and writing) about a lot of stuff.
But I figured I should put this post together for completeness and finality, even
though I only made it to one ...
Hi again. Today was another good day at the conference.
User Experience Distilled
The first class I attended was a whirlwind tour of user experience. I was heartened
to learn that I am not alone or ...
When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model"
in a recent
post, I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition
readily available (at least no...
As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze1, I thought, what
better thing to write about than Web services! Well, no, actually I am
just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On...
Thanks to a
sharp co-worker of mine, I was recently introduced to "Magic
Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface," by Bret Victor.
It was quite an interesting read; Victor makes a lot...
On the recommendation of a trusted co-worker who shall remain unnamed, I had installed
the March CTP of Orcas on my main box because "it runs great side-by-side with 2005."
And, with the exception ...
Essential
Windows Presentation Foundation is precisely what the title says it is. What
more can you ask for in a book? There are already several books on the RTM of
WPF, and there are bound to be more...
Christopher Alexander is
a noted traditional (i.e., not software)architect who's been writing about design
since well before I was born. Some of his books, most notably A
Pattern Language, are the bas...
In the current/upcoming CoDe Magazine is an
opinion piece I wrote that talks about one potential way we could move forward
in terms of how we develop software. Essentially, I think we are at or near
...
I've had a few people express some concern/difficulty with upgrading my .NET Service
Manager (a.k.a., The
Perfect Service) to CLR 2.0. So, while I can make no guarantees, I'm providing
a 2.0 (VS 2005...
I just read that
my governor has signed into law a bill granting many of the benefits of marriage to
homosexual couples who create a "civil union" together. I suppose I should be
happy that at leas...
It's that time again. Time for the SYS-CON Readers' Choice Awards voting.
Actually, it's been that time for a little while now; I'm just slow.
Infragistics has been nominated for several categories ...
I finally got a chance to start looking at the blog posts that have been piling up
in my Newsgator for a few months now, and I was pleasantly surprised by probably the best
thoughts on SOA I've seen ...
I was just reminded by our local Dev Evangelist, Peter
Laudati, that we've got our third
NJ CodeCamp coming up this weekend. Code camps are a fun way to get to know
other local devs, learn some cool ...
Last week, the head geek at Telligent told
me about this new service theyre offering called blogmailr.
Its a pretty cool concept; it allows folks to post to their blogs using email.
So I thought Id t...
So Infragistics had a pretty cool release today, if I do say so myself. We've
released a beta
patch for our NetAdvantage
for ASP.NET product thatsupports Microsoft's ASP.NET
AJAX Beta 1 and Beta 2.
...
Let me start by saying that I neither strongly adhere to nor dissent from the theory
of evolution. I figure Godcould easily have created a universe in which
things evolvejust ashe could have done it ...
Today we launched our new web site.
It was not just a simple update; we revamped the whole deal and made it Web 2.0 compliant
. If you remember our old site, I trust you'll immediately see the
improv...
I just spent an hour or more that I DON'T HAVE debugging a mysterious caching issue.
I suppose in some cases it might be obvious, but in this one, it was not. To
sum up, we're using an XmlDataSource ...
And overall I think it went quite well. My Suave Sessions session was attended
by a whopping ONE PERSON! I seem to recall his name is Mark, and he runs the
Ft. Worth DNUG, so kudos to him for picking...
A while back, I decided I needed to add browser-specific capabilities to my web application.
While there are those who advocate using capability testing rather than browser sniffing,
thereis at least...
Hi all, I just wanted to spread the word about the Tulsa
TechFest nextmonth. As some of you know, I originally hail from Tulsa,
OK, and I'm glad to be going back to my home town for this conference. ...
I just ran across what appears to be a nasty bug in Firefox today. Without explaining
why I'm doing it, suffice it to say that I just wanted to call a script in a parent
frame (from an IFrame) that u...
I just want to spread the word about a little utiltiy on gotdotnet that generates
a strongly-typed profile for WAPs. It's not the easiest thing to come across:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/wor...
Here's a quick tip for something pretty neat in ASP.NET 2.0. You can specify
output cache profiles in the application configuration like so (this is under the
system.web configuration section):
cach...
I was just reminded via email today that I never came through on my
intention to post something about my Oracle ELMAH provider.
There's not a lot to it, and if you want to understand it, just look a...
Okay, so I'm a little late to this bandwagon, but on an email list I'm on, Michael
Campbell alluded to Robert
McLaws' shell extension idea to run the ASP.NET web development server for any
folder. Th...
I've
recently been informed that "the .NET Framework groups are offering another series
of Live Meeting presentations called Live from Redmond. These talks are given by
product team members, so its c...
Well, I've finally settled on the software I'm going to use to write my blogs as well
as read them. I'm pretty picky about UI these days, and most of the software
out there is just not that great whe...
I just finished reading Blink based
on the recommendation of a presenter at TechEd. I don't recall the presenter's
name, but it was an architecture track about bridging the gap between infrastructure...
For some, this may be old news, but I was
just visiting again today, and I thought this is something that more people should
know about. So in case you haven't heard, the ASP.NET teams have put up
a l...
I just finally got Windows Vista up and running on my DFI
LANPARTY SLI-DR board(has nVidia's nForce4 chipset). Plugged into
that arean AMD
Athlon Dual Core X2 3800+ chip, 2 GB RAM, 2 Western
Digital3...
I guess somebody thought it'd be a lot of fun to see a bunch of geeks take an early
morning stroll.
I was rudely awakened not long ago by what seemed to be an alarm clock, my neighbor's
alarm clock,...
If you're reading this and you attended my session on Monday morning at 9a but haven't
yet filled out an evaluation, please do so. I've been told the room seats over
800 and it was packed, but only 2...
As most of you know who follow my blog at all, I recently joined Infragistics.
Well, I finally got around to getting my company blog set up, so if you're curious
or interested, feel free to check
it ...
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