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Category Archives: misc
Let’s meet for Dinner in London!
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am in the UK for the week. Sebastian Lambla (OpenRasta) has been kind enough to organize a dinner so I can meet all my geek friends from the Isles. If are in … Continue reading
Help my friend Scott Hanselman raise $50000 for Diabetes!
I’ve got a good friend Scott. He works at Microsoft, he’s a technical leader, and an awesome individual. He also lives every day plagued with being a Type I diabetic. I have known Scott for years and never realized just … Continue reading
My toughest challenges of being a PM (Program Manager)
<Warning>Non technical post follows</Warning> I was in a mail thread this morning with a friend who recently stepped in the PM role, on the challenges of being a PM. These are my particular set (which I’ve updated from the version … Continue reading
CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code.
Ever need to share code-snippets with the twittersphere? If so, Codepaste is for you. It’s my favorite new tool for getting code out there in a really low-friction manner. It has really nice syntax coloring support, allows reviewers to comment, … Continue reading
Also posted in coding
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Container-managed applications
OK, so you’ve past the point of deciding whether or not you will use an IoC container. Then you find out that is just the beginning of the road. How does that container fit in your application design? Should you … Continue reading
Framework Guidelines V2
This post is long overdue, but if you hadn’t heard, my bosses Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina (pronounced Kris-toff Tzvalyna [thanks to Monika Dyrda for the transliteration]) recently completed V2 of the renowned Framework Guidelines book. What’s New in the 2nd … Continue reading
Elegant Code Cast on ALT.NET and Microsoft
Last week, David Start of Elegant Code and I got a chance to chat on ALT.NET, Open Source at Microsoft, and MEF. David was a great host who I am sure loved responded as he through some curve balls at … Continue reading
Also posted in ALT.NET, MEF, patterns and practices
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Finding the right level of coupling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We knew that … Continue reading
Also posted in Composite Application Guidance, Composite Application Library, Composite WPF, patterns, prism
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The ALT.NET Criterion
Recently I was on a mail thread where the following question was raised. "What are the kinds of things that concern folks from the ALT.NET community?" Over the past year I’ve been pretty involved with ALT.NET and have been part … Continue reading
ForEach, a simple but very useful extension method
This evening I was writing some code (Yay!) for an Xml based MEF catalog I am prototyping. I came across the need to invoke a set of methods on an IEnumerable<T> that was returned from a LINQ to XML query. … Continue reading
Also posted in LINQ
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