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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:57 PM

Announcing the patterns and practices Patterns Factory

For some time now I've been working on a project that I've not been able to talk about. Well today, I am finally able to let the cat out of the bag. One of the challenges we've been hearing about from customers is around patterns. We hear they are way
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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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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
Posted by Glenn Block | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:55 AM

Exploring interactive application architecture patterns (MVC, MVP, etc)

Just came across this great gem from Derek Greer that discusses Model-View-Controller,  Model-View-Presenter, and Presentation-Abstraction-Control pattern. Very comprehensive including discussion of different variants of each of the patterns. If
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Monday, October 29, 2007 8:16 PM

Announcing WPF Composite Client

We just announced a new deliverable called WPF Composite Client. Due to the wonders of the blogosphere this is actually showing up as having been posted several days ago. Note to self, don't post drafts anymore. Anyway, check out the "real" post here
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Friday, October 19, 2007 8:05 AM

What is in a name - "Bundles" and "Application Blocks"

As many of you know, recently we've been shipping a set of deliverables that we've been calling tentatively "bundles". Since we first came up with the name, we've been having a ton of debates internally(No we don't have a ton of free time on our hands).
Posted by Glenn Block | 6 Comments
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:28 PM

What is DSL anyway?

Martin Fowler (the patterns / agile king) has a great video of a talk he delivered on Domain Specific Languages at JAOO 2005. Check out this video . It will give you a great overview including practical simple examples. No stone will be left unturned
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:12 AM

Clarius Software Factories Toolkit

Clarius Consulting recently shipped the December CTP of the Software Factories Toolkit . I have not yet looked at the product, but the demos look quite impressive. Basically SFT is positioning itself as the bridge between DSL Tools and GAT (Guidance Authoring
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