Composite Application Guidance for WPF released

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The p&p Composite Applications team has just released Composite Application Guidance for WPF. In a nutshell... The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications—composite applications ...

New Developer on the p&p Team

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Erwin just started with the patterns & practices Dev Team. He already has a blog and will be joining the Composite Application Library (CAL) team as they start work on their next project. His blog already includes a post on module loading for CAL. We've had quite a few new people join ...

Agile development practices at Microsoft

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Ajoy Krishnamoorthy pointed me at a great paper from Microsoft Research: Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study There are lots of interesting pieces of data in this paper. Two things that really stood out were firstly that about a third of the survey's respondents ...

ALT.NET and the global currency of ideas

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Scott Hanselman has a great post about last weekend's ALT.NET conference and the ALT.NET community overall. I'm not "in" with the ALT.NET crowd and wasn't able to attend the conference but some of them did drop by p&p last week. They're nice people and we had an interesting conversation about ...

Change the World or go home

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I found the blue monster cartoon  the other day. I just stuck a copy on my office door. Q: What would your blog card say? Additional credit will be given to candidates with creative answers.