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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:20 AM

Midnight and the Azure and Entity Framework decks are now final and available for download

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
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:52 PM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the last day retrospective

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
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Monday, September 28, 2009 11:09 AM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for October 7th 2009: How many lines of code did you write yesterday?

I managed “A smidgen – less than 100”. How did you fair?
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Friday, September 25, 2009 9:54 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day four and the slides are done

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
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:10 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day three was Entity Framework 4 day. I love it!

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
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:23 PM

Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more

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
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:27 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day two and my love for Boot from VHD

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 Install VS2010
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:08 PM

Using IIS to generate a X509 certificate for use with the Windows Azure Service Management API – step by step

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
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:50 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day one summary and the eureka moment

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
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:07 AM

Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the quiet before the storm

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
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:56 AM

MSDN Flash Podcast Show 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos

[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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Friday, September 11, 2009 9:14 AM

More happy is coming

Cute :)
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:03 AM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for Sept 16th 2009: How do you do Unit Testing?

[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
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:41 PM

Mocking, Stubs and Project NEric

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
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:18 PM

The Patterns and Practices team have been busy – list of releases in the last 12 months

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
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:59 PM

Microsoft Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 Starter Kits to download

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
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