Thursday, November 19th, 2009
I have an opening on the patterns & practices team for a developer. These don’t come up very often and they tend to get filled pretty fast. If you’re interested then read on… You can find out more about p&p by visiting our developer center; who we are and ...
Tags: Microsoft, p&p
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Early bird registration closes today! Save yourself a couple of hundred bucks and register before September. http://www.pnpsummit.com/ Great lineup of speakers including Martin Fowler and Scott Guthrie and… me (well it was worth a try).
Tags: Events, Microsoft, p&p Summit 2009
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
A month or so back p&p shipped Unity 1.2 a dependency injection container for .NET. Just in time for the gift giving season comes Unity for Silverlight! So if you want to use DI as part of your Silverlight application today you can.
Unity for Silverlight December 2008 Release (1.2)
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Tags: EntLib, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Unity
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
And just to round out the week, and the p&p Summit Dmitri's Enterprise Service Bus team have shipped a CTP for ESB version 2.0. ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server R2 and .NET components to simplify ...
Tags: Events, Microsoft, p&p
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I said we were going to ship some SharePoint guidance "real soon". It turns out that this means today, right now!SharePoint Guidance This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and ...
Tags: Events, Microsoft, p&p
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Much of this happened last week but what with my white paper to finish and preparing for the p&p Summit I didn't get time to blog about it. Anyway here goes, it's a long list... Unity 1.2 Added an interception mechanism (extension) and integration of the Policy ...
Tags: EntLib, Microsoft, p&p, Unity
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Now we've got Agile 2008 out of the way it's time to think about the next thing. For me it's Agile Development Practices 2008 in Florida, November 10-14. I'll be speaking on Thursday afternoon on some of my experiences at Microsoft with large and distributed teams. Scaling Agile ...
Tags: Events, Florida, Microsoft, p&p
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
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Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Proven practices, Static analysis, Toronto
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The testing guidance team have just shipped a new CTP in time for Agile 2008. You can grab the PDF from their CodePlex site:
http://www.codeplex.com/TestingGuidance
We're looking for feedback (as always) so don't be shy!
Tags: Acceptance testing, Events, Microsoft, p&p
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Dates for p&p Summit 2008 have been announced: November 3rd to 7th 2008. Lots of exciting speakers like Kent Beck will be there for you and some not so exciting ones... like me.
Apparently I'm speaking. How do I know? Well my name appears on the presenters page along with a ...
Tags: Events, Microsoft, p&p, Seattle
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