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Something new, something different, and I am moving my blog - http://edjez.instedd.org

This is a strange post in many ways. First, I didn't post for a looong time at p&p. Second, I moved on and went to a group where it was too early to blog about what we were dong. And third, now I'm not even a Microsoft employee. My new blog address Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:50 PM by edjez | 8 Comments

Policy Injection App Block - Behind the Scenes

Tom and I are making a set of simultaneous posts about a recent addition to the EntLib 3.0 family of Application Blocks - the Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB). His post is an introduction and high-level description, but in this one I wanted to Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 9:53 AM by edjez | 38 Comments

Software Factories: report from the trenches, and thoughts from p&p

Daniel wrote a nice little post about status of building Software Factories today - using DSLs to express intent around common models and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) to automate common use cases. See his perspective here As the team who has shipped Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:56 PM by edjez | 0 Comments
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Web Client Software Factory Ships!!!

We just released the Web Client Software Factory to Codeplex. Go get it . I thoroughly enjoyed this project. The team rocked, we had to deal with new technologies and we did a large set of deliverables targeting web apps specifically, which I felt we Read More...
Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 4:20 PM by edjez | 0 Comments

I'm it!!

OK - now I'm it - in this fascinating game of blog-tag via Tom Hollander . I like this game - You need to reveal five things about me that most people don’t know, and tag 5 more folks. I'm going to add my own spin and add 5 pictures. Here we go: - I am Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:01 PM by edjez | 4 Comments
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Web Client Software Factory on CodePlex!

We have just released oour first community drop of the Web Client Software Factory. www.msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory As we continue working on the project, we expect to provide: Give best practices for web app development on .NET 2.0 Guidance around Read More...
Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 5:57 PM by edjez | 15 Comments

Distributed, mesh-based source code control with SSE?

We were discussing the Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) usage at Strong Angel 3 in our team and Peter came up with an intriguing direction question: What if SSE was applied in source-code control? The mind reels... Read More...
Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:55 PM by edjez | 0 Comments

2 new CAB (Composite UI) resources

1. www.cabpedia.com - started by John Socha-Leialoha. John worked with us on the Mobile Client Software Factory and is currently doing some prototype work for a requirements gathering tool, and has set up this excellent community wiki so that folks can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:52 PM by edjez | 2 Comments

Forerunners of tomorrow's enterprise architectures

Just returned from Strong Angel III - a week-long excercise and demonstration in the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for humaitarian and first-response missions. I was there to learn many things, and one of the things I brought back Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 7:28 PM by edjez | 4 Comments

Mobile Client Software Factory debuts @ MEDC

This week most of the Mobile Client Software Factory dev team is at MEDC , in Las Vegas, presenting the cool stuff we've built over the last few months. (You guys should bee proud!) It includes a loosely coupled collection of application blocks, some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:03 PM by edjez | 5 Comments

Mindstorms NXT and Working with communities throughout development

Great news and great approach - Lego opens up its Mindstorms NXT toolkit, and their board of 'Expert Advisors' will be able to share their experiences with the community. It must be an exciting day for the NXT team - if I were to draw a parallel to patterns Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:35 AM by edjez | 2 Comments

Invoking the ghost

Let’s say you are talking about a program with someone. Imagine stakes are somewhat high. Suddenly one of these two phrases gets thrown out: 1. " It could be faster " In any but the healthiest of teams, these are great words to put folks on defensive Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 1:37 PM by edjez | 1 Comments

What's in a name? What's an "Application Block"

Often I get the question 'what is an application block' and 'why that name'? We have lots of articles, webcasts etc describing them how we've built them and how to extend them or build your own. Then people ask 'what is the difference between a block Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 8:52 AM by edjez | 3 Comments
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New Blog Section - "Off the deep end..."

Disclaimer: JD Meier suggested I get to blogging and after some discussion why I haven't been doing this, I decided to create a section for 'off the deep end' posts. The description is is a reference to Gödel : Thoughts, Ramblings, and content not computable Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 8:12 AM by edjez | 0 Comments
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EntLib 2.0 Shipped!

Nuff said already! Just go get it! http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp?frame=true It includes the following favorites: Caching Application Block Cryptography Application Block Data Access Application Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:43 PM by edjez | 6 Comments
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