Espresso Fueled Agile Development
Comments on my work at patterns & practices, agile development, and caffeine sources.
Data Access Guidance Refresh
Over the last few weeks (in my copious spare time between midnight and six in the morning), I have...
Date: 02/09/2010
Web Client Developer Guidance
For the past several months, I ahve been working with Blaine and Francis on the Web Client Developer...
Date: 02/09/2010
Data Access Guidance Drops available
For the last few months, I have been working with Don on developing guidance for developers who have...
Date: 07/02/2009
If you missed the patterns & practices summit....
Ajoy has posted that three of the sessions have been made available online at pnp Summit videos...
Date: 12/04/2008
Who is using WCSF?
Blaine and I would like to ask the community to let us know "who is using WCSF?" We...
Date: 12/03/2008
Where is WCSF headed?
Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF. There...
Date: 12/03/2008
How to migrate from CAB/SCSF to Composite WPF
Blaine recently posted that there is a CAB to Prism Comparison Available on Codeplex. This links to...
Date: 10/14/2008
Finally, a common Service Locator
I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares, Glenn Block, and a few others around here...
Date: 10/13/2008
Acceptance Test Engineering guide Alpha Available
Last night I posted the Alpha version of Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if...
Date: 08/27/2008
What is a "brown-bag talk"?
In past posts, and the recent Unit testing SharePoint post, I have mentioned "brown-bag talks." This...
Date: 08/25/2008
Unit testing SharePoint
Francis has an article on Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications He also did a brownbag talk on...
Date: 08/22/2008
Guidance on SharePoint
You all might be amazed by the number of emails, messages, and calls I get asking for any of the...
Date: 08/13/2008
See Real Results With patterns & practices
I visited the p&p homepage on MSDN today, and saw an announcement for a research report by...
Date: 08/12/2008
Acceptance Testing Guide Community Preview 2 Available!
As I have mentioned before in a few posts (Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance, Acceptance Testing...
Date: 08/04/2008
Composite Application Guidance for WPF Shipped!
A while back, I was Dev Lead on the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) when we added the ability...
Date: 07/31/2008
Acceptance Testing Guide Update
The team has been writing, editing, re-writing, and working hard on putting together a guide on...
Date: 07/10/2008
Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey
We have put together a survey to get a bit more input from the community about Acceptance Testing....
Date: 05/18/2008
Enterprise Library 4.0 and Unity 1.1 Shipped
Grigori has announced that Enterprise Library 4.0 has shipped. You can get EntLib 4 here. I have...
Date: 05/16/2008
ScrumBut
I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut. I have mentioned...
Date: 04/30/2008
We really do listen to community feedback
The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release. Before we shipped, I...
Date: 04/28/2008
Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 Release is available on MSDN
The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at...
Date: 04/25/2008
Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Ummmm...Oooops.
This is the forth post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application...
Date: 04/22/2008
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release Candidate Available
Friday, I posted we had a solid Beta. Today, I am letting you know that SCSF now has a Release...
Date: 04/21/2008
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Beta Available
The SCSF April 2008 Beta Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available. We fixed all the...
Date: 04/18/2008
Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance
As I mentioned before (Acceptance Testing Guidance, Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing...
Date: 04/18/2008
Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Available
For the past month or so, Blaine and I have been overseeing the development of the April release of...
Date: 04/10/2008
Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Clean Up ICompositionContainer
This is the third post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application...
Date: 04/09/2008
Web Client Software Factory Guidance Assets are now Available on MSDN
Some of you may remember that waaaay back in October (and earlier) the Web Client Software Factory...
Date: 04/09/2008
Unity Shipped
I am a little late to the party, but Unity shipped last week. Here are a few other posts about it:...
Date: 04/08/2008
Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project
The other day, I mentioned a new project here at p&p, Acceptance Testing Guidance, Grigori has...
Date: 04/08/2008
Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer
This is the second post in a series. The initial post is Converting the Composite Web Application...
Date: 04/04/2008
Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro
A few weeks ago, I decided I needed to play with the Unity Dependency Injection container. I wanted...
Date: 04/04/2008
Acceptance Testing Guidance
On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked...
Date: 04/03/2008
Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics
I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on)...
Date: 04/02/2008
"I need a new co-worker", or "p&p is Hiring"
Peter Provost left p&p a month or two ago*, and Ade Miller is now our Dev Lead. However, this...
Date: 03/22/2008
Weird COM Exceptions in SCSF/CAB Unit Tests
The SCSF project was getting a weird error with the unit tests that were brought forward from VS2005...
Date: 03/19/2008
The .NET Framework is a bit on the big side.
As anyone who has ever tried to find docs on MSDN already knows, the .NET Framework is big. Real...
Date: 03/19/2008
Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships with Side by Side Support
When we originally released the Web Client Software Factory February 2008, there was an issue for a...
Date: 03/19/2008
Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships!
I know that folks have been reading about the Web Client Software Factory on Blaine's blog and on...
Date: 02/28/2008
Front Page of the Seattle Times!
This morning, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, drinking a latte, and I checked my email on my...
Date: 11/11/2007
Developing a ASP .NET Control with client capabilities
Brian J. Cardiff ( from Clarius Consulting) is one of the developers on the Web Client team. ...
Date: 10/31/2007
The future of WPF Guidance
There is a lot of new information, all announced today, about the future of Acropolis, CAB, and WPF...
Date: 10/29/2007
Clarification on Changes in CWAB's Dependency Injection
David Hayden recently posted (ObjectBuilder WorkItem - Just Implement Windsor Features), in which he...
Date: 10/22/2007
WCSF: Insights and Plans
There have been a lot of posts recently about WCSF, spurred on by our recent releases. Here...
Date: 10/15/2007
More Web Client bundles shipped
Yesterday, we posted the Composite Web Client Library and the Composite Web Client Automation...
Date: 10/09/2007
Breaking Changes in the Composite Web Application Block
With the initial January release of the Web Client Software Factory, and with the subsequent June...
Date: 10/04/2007