Espresso Fueled Agile Development

Comments on my work at patterns & practices, agile development, and caffeine sources.

Data Access Guidance Refresh

Over the last few weeks (in my copious spare time between midnight and six in the morning), I have...

Author: mpuleio Date: 02/09/2010

Web Client Developer Guidance

For the past several months, I ahve been working with Blaine and Francis on the Web Client Developer...

Author: mpuleio Date: 02/09/2010

Data Access Guidance Drops available

For the last few months, I have been working with Don on developing guidance for developers who have...

Author: mpuleio Date: 07/02/2009

If you missed the patterns & practices summit....

Ajoy has posted that three of the sessions have been made available online at pnp Summit videos...

Author: mpuleio Date: 12/04/2008

Who is using WCSF?

Blaine and I would like to ask the community to let us know "who is using WCSF?"  We...

Author: mpuleio Date: 12/03/2008

Where is WCSF headed?

Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF.  There...

Author: mpuleio Date: 12/03/2008

How to migrate from CAB/SCSF to Composite WPF

Blaine recently posted that there is a CAB to Prism Comparison Available on Codeplex. This links to...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/14/2008

Finally, a common Service Locator

I know that this is old news by now, but Chris Tavares, Glenn Block, and a few others around here...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/13/2008

Acceptance Test Engineering guide Alpha Available

Last night I posted the Alpha version of Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/27/2008

What is a "brown-bag talk"?

In past posts, and the recent Unit testing SharePoint post, I have mentioned "brown-bag talks." This...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/25/2008

Unit testing SharePoint

Francis has an article on Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications He also did a brownbag talk on...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/22/2008

Guidance on SharePoint

You all might be amazed by the number of emails, messages, and calls I get asking for any of the...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/13/2008

See Real Results With patterns & practices

I visited the p&p homepage on MSDN today, and saw an announcement for a research report by...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/12/2008

Acceptance Testing Guide Community Preview 2 Available!

As I have mentioned before in a few posts (Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance, Acceptance Testing...

Author: mpuleio Date: 08/04/2008

Composite Application Guidance for WPF Shipped!

A while back, I was Dev Lead on the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) when we added the ability...

Author: mpuleio Date: 07/31/2008

Acceptance Testing Guide Update

The team has been writing, editing, re-writing, and working hard on putting together a guide on...

Author: mpuleio Date: 07/10/2008

Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey

We have put together a survey to get a bit more input from the community about Acceptance Testing....

Author: mpuleio Date: 05/18/2008

Enterprise Library 4.0 and Unity 1.1 Shipped

Grigori has announced that Enterprise Library 4.0 has shipped. You can get EntLib 4 here. I have...

Author: mpuleio Date: 05/16/2008

ScrumBut

I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut. I have mentioned...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/30/2008

We really do listen to community feedback

The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release. Before we shipped, I...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/28/2008

Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 Release is available on MSDN

The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/25/2008

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Ummmm...Oooops.

This is the forth post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/22/2008

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release Candidate Available

Friday, I posted we had a solid Beta. Today, I am letting you know that SCSF now has a Release...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/21/2008

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Beta Available

The SCSF April 2008 Beta Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available. We fixed all the...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/18/2008

Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance

As I mentioned before (Acceptance Testing Guidance, Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/18/2008

Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Available

For the past month or so, Blaine and I have been overseeing the development of the April release of...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/10/2008

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Clean Up ICompositionContainer

This is the third post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/09/2008

Web Client Software Factory Guidance Assets are now Available on MSDN

Some of you may remember that waaaay back in October (and earlier) the Web Client Software Factory...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/09/2008

Unity Shipped

I am a little late to the party, but Unity shipped last week. Here are a few other posts about it:...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/08/2008

Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project

The other day, I mentioned a new project here at p&p, Acceptance Testing Guidance, Grigori has...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/08/2008

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer

This is the second post in a series. The initial post is Converting the Composite Web Application...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/04/2008

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro

A few weeks ago, I decided I needed to play with the Unity Dependency Injection container. I wanted...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/04/2008

Acceptance Testing Guidance

On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/03/2008

Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics

I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on)...

Author: mpuleio Date: 04/02/2008

"I need a new co-worker", or "p&p is Hiring"

Peter Provost left p&p a month or two ago*, and Ade Miller is now our Dev Lead. However, this...

Author: mpuleio Date: 03/22/2008

Weird COM Exceptions in SCSF/CAB Unit Tests

The SCSF project was getting a weird error with the unit tests that were brought forward from VS2005...

Author: mpuleio Date: 03/19/2008

The .NET Framework is a bit on the big side.

As anyone who has ever tried to find docs on MSDN already knows, the .NET Framework is big. Real...

Author: mpuleio Date: 03/19/2008

Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships with Side by Side Support

When we originally released the Web Client Software Factory February 2008, there was an issue for a...

Author: mpuleio Date: 03/19/2008

Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships!

I know that folks have been reading about the Web Client Software Factory on Blaine's blog and on...

Author: mpuleio Date: 02/28/2008

Front Page of the Seattle Times!

This morning, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, drinking a latte, and I checked my email on my...

Author: mpuleio Date: 11/11/2007

Developing a ASP .NET Control with client capabilities

Brian J. Cardiff ( from Clarius Consulting) is one of the developers on the Web Client team. ...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/31/2007

The future of WPF Guidance

There is a lot of new information, all announced today, about the future of Acropolis, CAB, and WPF...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/29/2007

Clarification on Changes in CWAB's Dependency Injection

David Hayden recently posted (ObjectBuilder WorkItem - Just Implement Windsor Features), in which he...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/22/2007

WCSF: Insights and Plans

There have been a lot of posts recently about WCSF, spurred on by our recent releases.  Here...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/15/2007

More Web Client bundles shipped

Yesterday, we posted the Composite Web Client Library and the Composite Web Client Automation...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/09/2007

Breaking Changes in the Composite Web Application Block

With the initial January release of the Web Client Software Factory, and with the subsequent June...

Author: mpuleio Date: 10/04/2007

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