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Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Posted on February 24, 2009 by James Kovacs

CodeBetter – in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us – is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com – a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs … Continue reading →

Also posted in Programming | 11 Comments

Enterprise Library 4.0 DAAB with Unity Screencast

Posted on May 20, 2008 by davidhayden

I received a few requests for a screencast to go along with my tutorial: Enterprise Library 4.0 Data Access Application Block ( DAAB ) and Unity IoC Tutorial – DataAccessBlockExtension so I went ahead and cooked one up: Enterprise Library … Continue reading →

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Guidance for developing custom solutions with SharePoint 2007.

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Glenn Block

First let me start off by allaying all your fears, “No it’s not another factory”.   For a while we’ve been hearing a lot of requests from customers for patterns & practices to deliver guidance on SharePoint. For several weeks now we’ve been … Continue reading →

Also posted in Training | 8 Comments

WPF, from this to that..Wow!

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Glenn Block

A few weeks ago, our reference implementation for Prism looked like this. Early on we decided that we needed the RI to have a better look in feel so that it delivered a more real world WPF experience. We hired … Continue reading →

Also posted in General | 5 Comments

Prism vs Framework XXX

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Glenn Block

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/288925731/ There’s been a bunch of talk on the net comparing Prism to other frameworks that exist. In many cases comparisons are being made based on feature parity and such. I think it’s important to make the distinction of why … Continue reading →

Also posted in C#, ScreenCasts | 4 Comments

PrismShouldNotReferenceUnity

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Glenn Block

Clarification: We are not against using Unity, the Prism RI uses Unity, and we’ve been very happy with it’s implementation. We are after all one of Unity’s first internal customers. On the other hand, we want to make it easier for customers to … Continue reading →

Also posted in Agile | 6 Comments

Keyboard Jedi on Vista x64

Posted on April 25, 2008 by James Kovacs

This morning I was getting ready to record a screencast about ReSharper 4 EAP. To make it easier for people to follow along, I launched Roy Osherove’s excellent utility, Keyboard Jedi. Rather than the expected result, this friendly dialog box … Continue reading →

Also posted in Programming | 12 Comments

DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers]

Posted on April 25, 2008 by gregyoung

Not surprisingly the Producer/Consumer relationship is the single most important concept in messaging. Let’s take a look at those interfaces and how they work. The first we will look at is the interface that an object must meet in order … Continue reading →

Also posted in General | 6 Comments

John Lam on IronRuby

Posted on April 24, 2008 by davelaribee

Time for another salvo of moving pictures! John catches us up on the IronRuby and shows some under-the-covers architecture of the DLR at the ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle event. I didn’t get the whole thing, but there’s some good stuff … Continue reading →

Also posted in .Net 2.0, .Net 3.0, C# | 4 Comments

What do you do if you’re Salieri?

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Kyle Baley

Watching the Polyglot Programming video courtesy of enabler-extraordinaire, Dave Laribee, and it revealed (or rather re-revealed) something about myself that I hope is common enough that I’ll get at least one BOOYAH in the comments. I watched Amadeus when I … Continue reading →

Also posted in Presentations | 8 Comments