Espresso Fueled Agile Development

Just over a week ago, Ed (one of our Architects) did not show up for a chat I had scheduled to review some architectural changes and additions that we needed to make to the Smart Client (the next project I am going to work on). So, I went over to Ed's...

There was a question on one of the internal aliases today about the difference between unit tests and acceptance tests. I responded with my take on it. After some consideration, I decided to share this with the world as well. Of course, I have edited...

I finally uploaded to our CodePlex site some work that the team has done on the Web Client Software Factory to make life easier for folks using the PageFlow block. There are now two code snippets to help speed-up development. Check it out...

I've been offline for a few days. I get back, and Mariano has been at it again, writing more How To articles. This one was posted on his blog and on the WCSF CodePlex Forums . Enjoy

The rest of the p&p team has been just as busy as my team, creating guidance, helpful tools, and software factories. Two of the recent releases are: The Web Service Software Factory–December 2006 (ASP.NET and WCF services in C#) The second...

We just posted one of the most requested features for the Web Client Software Factory : instructions on how to integrate it with the Web Service Software Factory . The instructions are on our community site on CodePlex . Enjoy.

Monday, I paved my laptop, removing one of the Vista Release Candidates, and installing the Vista RTM bits. After getting a bunch of applications installed, I tried to use Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to connect to my desktop machine (also running...

Eugenio posted a few pictures from the ShipIt party we threw on Friday as part of his "We Shipped" announcement. FYI, I'm the guy in the second picture opening the champagne bottle. [Edit: By the way, these pics do not show the entire team. There...

Mariano is at it again. He posted another article about the Web Client Software Factory : How to: add a base class for Web pages Enjoy.

The other day, Mariano , one of the folks who worked with me on the Web Client Software Factory , posted a How-To about changing and extending StateValue<T> (one of the classes in the Composite Web Application Block). I should have pointed it out...

The Web Client Software Factory January 2007 release is now available . About fifteen minutes ago, Eugenio and I posted the release. Now, I need to return to our release celebration and relax a bit. Enjoy.

We have posted a Release Candidate for the Web Client Software Factory . We hope you folks will download, install, and try out the factory. Even more importantly, we hope you will post feedback or bugs to our Forums on CodePlex . And if you installed...

The entire team and I have been heads down and working very hard to get the first release of the Web Client Software Factory done. While we still have some work to do, we are getting close to a release. This week's drop on CodePlex is an MSI, rather...