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You might have been following this series of posts on my preparation for Software Architect 2009. Well, this evening while sitting in a small hotel room in London (with no window and a dodgy tv) I completed both presentations and made them available for...

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day five (The last day): Play, play, play with the technology.  PART DONE Produce outline skeleton demo sequence...

I managed “A smidgen – less than 100”. How did you fair?

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day four (Thursday): Produce final drafts of each deck and post them so delegates can check out what I’m covering. DONE...

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day three: Nearly got it all done. However I ended up spending more time on EF4 than I had planned as … there is a lot of it! Gather...

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. [Last updated 23rd Sept 2009] This is my attempt to pull together all (ok – most) of the improvements in Entity Framework 4.0 and aggregate...

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day two: The Tuesday plan vs actual was … 100% spot on. Install Entity Framework CTP on Windows XP Mode. SUCCESS ...

This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. One of the things that has been added to Windows Azure while i have been “elsewhere” is the Service Management API which the team introduced...

This is the second in a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. In case you don’t want to skim through the whole post, the main things I learnt in day one are: 1. Never forget that install errors can...

Next week I am presenting two sessions at Software Architect 2009 . Both sessions are new, new in the sense that I am creating them this week and new in the sense that whilst they are on topics I have experience with, in each case there is a significant...

[Amazingly – I actually got this podcast done before the MSDN Flash newsletter it accompanies :-) Despite my hoster trying very hard to turn my hair grey to get this posted! Grrrrrr. ] [Apologies in advance if you have problems downloading it. I am working...

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[From a suggestion by Ian Cooper ] There are many different approaches to unit testing software , from manual testing to Test Driven Development . In many organisations the developer of the code will unit test their own code, however in some organisations...

I started to play with Moq a few weeks back under the guise of Project NEric and then… real work got in the way. However I am today revisiting mocking as I am reviewing a potential article for the Flash on, let me think, mocking. The article touches on...

I’m just pulling together next Wednesday MSDN Flash newsletter and came across this gem. The last 12 months of releases from the Patterns and Practices team: Enterprise Library v4.1 is a collection of reusable software components that help developers...

I had totally missed the existence of these great starter kits for Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 which make for a great (if rather large) resource. You can view online at the Expression site or download the individual Starter Kits. That represents 32...