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29 Feb

2012

Entity Framework 5 Beta 1 Available on NuGet

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Entity Framework 5 beta is now available on nuget. EF5 includes many long awaited features which were dependent on the .NET framework 4.5 such as Spatial Data types, Enum support and Table-Valued functions. EF5 also includes significant performance improvements. You will need Visual Studio 11 in order to work with EF5, however EF 4.3.1 was […]

21 Feb

2012

When Opportunity Knocks Answer the DAMN Door!

By: Brian Lagunas Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

When people do something for so long they get comfortable. There is a nice fuzzy feeling you get when you can somewhat expect the events of your day. Especially in this economy. That somewhat happened to me. I have been writing WPF and Silverlight LOB applications for the construction and engineering industry for a long […]

9 Feb

2012

Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations)

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:

The EF team has released Entity Framework 4.3 which contains a fully supported version of Migrations. I have been using migrations in my projects since the Alpha 2 bits and would encourage EF Code First?ers to make the investment if they haven?t already. You can get EF 4.3 by installing the latest version of the […]

2 Feb

2012

“Don’t be a meme, but a movement”

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

Scott Hanselman wrote blog post earlier this year titled “Your Blog is The Engine of Community”, in which he encourages us to blog more, and tweet less. I hear you Scott. Social Media is junk food, and my brain is overweight! I used to have a healthy technical blog and really enjoyed contributing to the […]

25 Jan

2012

WAT

By: Jarod Ferguson Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Need a quick laugh? Of course you do! Watch this –> A hilarious lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012. Well done Gary, well done.

23 Jan

2012

Job Titles and Scrum

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I hear a lot of questions about “proper” Scrum. I feel compelled to answer one such question here, given how often I hear the topic discussed. Does Scrum prohibit job titles? No. Although Scrum does not recognize any titles defined outside the Scrum Framework, titles are almost always present in the organization. While Scrum doesn’t […]

23 Jan

2012

Scrum.org’s New Agile Webcast Series (no trans fats)

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

I’ve been focusing energies at Scrum.org on growing our community of Agile practitioners. That’s right, the word “scrum” wasn’t in that statement. Sort of. Our mission is to Improve the Profession of Software Development, not to Increase Instances of Poorly Implemented Scrum. But, I digress… Scrum.org wants to be a valued resource for those practicing […]