Service Factory and Software Factories

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

So now Service Factory: Modeling Edition has now shipped I have a bit more time to think, rather then just "do". There are a couple of new blog categories: Service Factory - Posts about the Service Factory: Modeling Edition and how we built it and the lessons we learnt along the way. Software ...

“Software Factories” a poor choice of name

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Names are important. As Harry Pierson pointed out in his p&p Summit talk this isn't the industrial age any more. Factories have had their day, we certainly don' create software the same way people build cars, if we ever did. The "factory" name doesn't really do the idea justice. I prefer ...

VSSDK Assist

Monday, October 1st, 2007

VSSDK Assist is a set of utilities and tools to help people who want to start extending Visual Studio. Pablo wrote this in his "spare time" while helping us ship Service Factory: Modeling Edition! He gave a talk to the p&p team about some of the things it lets you. ...

patterns & practices Summit 2007

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I'll be speaking at this year's patterns and practices Summit, along with a host of other people, including all the usual suspects. I'll be talking about Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition with Bob Brumfield and Dragos, Wojtek, Jason and I will be doing something on our patterns survey and the ...