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The CodePlex Team and the patterns & practices Summit
The CodePlex team will be well represented (in fact you might get sick of us) at the patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, WA - October 9-12, 2006 . We will be presenting or co-presenting the following sessions: Application Frameworks in IT - Jonathan Read More...
ARC 206 - Evolving to Patterns at TechEd
I will be in Boston for TechEd in June to present a talk about design patterns and (IMO) how best to use them in your everyday development. In the past I have found design patterns talks less than inspiring. They tend to be just a presentation of a catalog. Read More...
CodePlex.com Beta
Over 13 months ago (April 4, 2005 in fact) I posted something on my blog that I was leaving the patterns & practices team. Since that time we assembled a team of people and in turn built a community site for developers to innovate and participate Read More...
PDC05 Sessions
I will be in Los Angeles next week (September 13-16, 2005). On Wednesday (September 14) and Thursday (September 15) I will be in the Product Pavilion at the GotDotNet station. I don't have specific times in which I will be there but if you let me know Read More...
NUnit Converter V0.5
I have released V0.5. You can get it here . Due to the feedback I received from Scott Densmore this new version has support for files contained in folders within a project and a number of other bugs he and Brian Button found when converting the tests Read More...
NUnit Converter V0.4
I was talking with Scott Densmore and Brian Button who are busy converting the tests in Enterprise Library to use Visual Studio 2005 Team System and they mentioned that they would like to have the converter convert all the files that are contained in Read More...
NUnit Converter V0.3
There is a new version (0.3) of the converter in the GotDotNet workspace. Click here to download. This version adds support for VB.NET and fixes a few bugs that I discovered as I did more extensive acceptance testing. I have done much more acceptance Read More...
NUnit Tests and Visual Studio 2005 Team System
In addition to GotDotNet workspaces V2 I have been busy on the testing front. A number of customers have started looking at the new testing tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System. One of the first questions that comes to mind is what am I going to do Read More...
TechEd
I will be in Orlando next week (June 6-10, 2005). I have been working on a number of things, blogging not being one of them, but I am sure given my lack of posts you already know this. I would like to discuss with you what features you would like to see Read More...
Change is good
As some of you may already know, I have decided to leave the patterns & practices team. I have been working with the team as a consultant and as an employee for 2 1/2 years. I have enjoyed my tenure with the group. I was able to work with great people Read More...
patterns & practices - Enterprise Library and Pattern Share
It's been awhile but I have been pretty busy. I know both of these were delivered yesterday (28 January 2005) but I wanted to alert you to two new items from the patterns & practices team if you have not already heard. The first one is Enterprise Read More...
New job openings in patterns & practices
Would you like to work on a development team that includes people like Ward Cunningham, David Trowbridge, Peter Provost , Scott Densmore , Sandy Khaund , to name a few? We just opened two new positions in the patterns & practices development team. Read More...
patterns & practices - Enterprise Library Announced
Well summer vacation is over and it's back to work. I have a number of things which I have been working on over the past few months. The biggest news is the public announcement of Enterprise Library for patterns & practices. I encourage you to read Read More...
Microsoft patterns & practices Block Testing
“Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance focusing on testing .NET application blocks. The guide's TOC and two draft chapters have been made available so its possible for others to provide feedback. Read More...
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