22 Jul
2008

GivingDaily.com

Have you ever wondered what Ebay, Facebook or Twitter looked like before they were widely adopted and successful? (OK, we know what Twitter looks like) As part of a new blog post idea, I wanted to take a look at new ‘up and coming sites’ that put unique twist on the web. These could be […]

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15 Jul
2008

Object-Firster or Data-Firster: DDD is for CRUD Apps

Ward Bell posted an interesting read “DDD is for CRUD Apps” over on the Entites Wiki. As Ward would say, he wrote the article on the Wiki for “a number of folks with contrasting degrees of affection for and animosity toward Entity Framework.” If you haven’t had your weekly dose of EF controversy I suggest […]

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1 Jun
2008

Backlog estimation photos

Over the years my company has acquired several companies products which do the same thing, in different technologies. They are all aging and becoming very difficult to maintain (gross understatement here). My current project is taking “like” functionality out of the products and creating a new platform in order to migrate our customer base and […]

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9 May
2008

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 – BETA

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“With Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 introduces a large assortment of new features for targeting Windows, Office, and the Web. Developers building .NET-based applications will enjoy improved performance in the WPF designer, new components for Visual Basic and Visual C++, as well as an MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon. Web developers will see continued improvement […]

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27 Apr
2008

Alt.Net Seattle – Takeaway<DDDD>().Video

This last weekend (yes, a week ago I know) at Alt.Net I had the opportunity to convene a session on DDDD.  (which was also joined with Event Driven Architecture and one other messaging related topic) The open spaces format makes it easy for whoever is there, to talk about whatever they want. DDDD, or distributed […]

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