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Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:51 AM

Container-managed applications

OK, so you've past the point of deciding whether or not you will use an IoC container. Then you find out that is just the beginning of the road. How does that container fit in your application design? Should you pass it around, should you have a static
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Monday, October 20, 2008 7:54 AM

Finding the right level of coupling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We knew
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:14 PM

The ALT.NET Criterion

Recently I was on a mail thread where the following question was raised. "What are the kinds of things that concern folks from the ALT.NET community?" Over the past year I've been pretty involved with ALT.NET and have been part of countless
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:46 AM

ForEach, a simple but very useful extension method

This evening I was writing some code (Yay!) for an Xml based MEF catalog I am prototyping. I came across the need to invoke a set of methods on an IEnumerable<T> that was returned from a LINQ to XML query. Unfortunately no such animal exists on
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:57 AM

When comments are not enough.

Blog comments are great but sometimes you need that extra level of interaction. For those times, I just added this mega-cool feature all my coworkers have been telling me about. It lets you IM me directly from my blog when I am online. To use it, just
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Monday, May 05, 2008 5:36 AM

PrismShouldNotReferenceUnity

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 use their
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:50 PM

Entity Framework Webinar

Ward Bell just told me about this little gem. IdeaBlade has an upcoming MSDN Magazine webinar entitled "Introduction to the Entity Framework and LINQ". LINQ is the new query language that is shipping as part of .NET 3.5 and provides language
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Friday, February 22, 2008 7:08 AM

Patterns, it's about teaching people how to fish

The other day Larry Brader (Our Lead Test Manager) and I were having an interesting conversation that led me to make the above statement. Larry and I were discussing the root drivers for many of the architectural qualities I have been pushing on within
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Monday, January 28, 2008 8:51 AM

Seattle CodeCamp Recap

Like all good things, sadly Seattle CodeCamp has come to an end. I had a great time and enjoyed hanging out with all the CodeCampers. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the different challenges customers are facing in their implementations. I also took
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:49 AM

Seattle CodeCamp talks

I forgot to post on this, well better late than never. This weekend I'm speaking at the Seattle CodeCamp on WCSF and SCSF. Actually Day one is over, which leaves one more talk left tomorrow on using SCSF and the Disconnected Service Agent. Session state
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Friday, January 04, 2008 7:38 AM

me@codebetter

Hi guys I have a new blog on CodeBetter.com .  I plan on using it to focus on general software engineering practices, reflections on how we build software in p&p, and tales of woe and success from my pre-Microsoft days. I'll also post about my
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:09 AM

You never know who reads your blog

I just happened to check some of my comments that were marked as possibly spam and this is what I came across. Apparently Socrates, Hermes and Zeus are all avid readers!
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:05 AM

Personal retrospective on 2007, one long iteration

Happy new Year! As the 2007 comes to a close and we start off 2008,I thought it would be fitting to a do a retrospective on how things went for me. In agile software development, retrospectives are meetings usually held at the end of each iteration where
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Monday, November 26, 2007 6:58 AM

Searching for the perfect Twitter client

One of my favorite book series is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Douglas Adam's masterpiece in which the main protagonist Arthur Dent searches throughout the universe for the perfect cup of tea. Well now life is mimicking art (well maybe not exactly)
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:55 PM

Team Explorer 2005, where are you?

A few weeks ago, I did a machine repave. After the repave was done, the one piece of software I forgot to install was Team Explorer 2005. I first did a scan of our internal servers and was unsuccesful. Next I went to the download center and searched on
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