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Each holiday season my employer, Magenic, gives
out a cool tech gift. Over the years we've received things like MP3 players, an XBox,
Tivo units and an XBox 360. This year the gift is Microsoft's new Zune
device.
For all that I'm a techno-geek, I am also quite conservative when it comes to spending
money on devices. They become obsolete so fast, and they are so expensive
when new that I just have a hard time spending the money. So I've been still using
the Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 I got from Magenic some years ago. It is a nice enough
device, with a 20 gig hard...
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I was recently interviewed by Craig Shoemaker for polymorphicpodcast.com,
and that interview is now online
for listening.
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
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The long-awaited release of VS
2005 SP1 is finally here.
Perhaps most importantly, SP1 rolls up a number of hotfixes that many people have
been using for a long time to improve the stability and performance of Visual Studio
2005. I know this is one service pack I'm installing immediately!!
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
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I thought it would be a good idea to give a quick update on the progress/status of
the CSLA .NET version 2.1 ebook. Version 2.1 includes some substantial new features
and changes as compared to version 2.0, and I am working on an ebook (about 150 pages)
that I'll be selling through my web site in the near future. This ebook covers those
changes to the framework, both from the framework development perspective and from
the perspective of someone who just wants to use the new or changed features.
My original intent was for the ebook to be done in November. Obviously th...
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I just learned that two active members of the computer industry and regional community
died in a plane crash recently. Details at:
http://www.iowadnug.org/DesktopDefault.aspx
I knew both of these men, having spoken at the Heartland Developers Conference over
the past couple years.
I sometimes think about this sort of thing. We live in an increasingly virtual world.
While I, like most of us, still have friends that live near me, a great many of my
closest friends and colleagues are scattered around the globe. I often interact more
with people in Los Angeles,...
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I am the track chair for Vista Live!, one of the sub-conferences of VS
Live! San Francisco. This conference will be held March 25-29, 2007.
As track chair, it is my job to recruit speakers and help select sessions around software
development and Windows Vista and .NET 3.0.
Windows Vista has some major impacts on software development. Perhaps most notably,
having users (and developers) run in a non-Admin account affects how both development
tools and end-user applications install and run. And then there are the new shell
features, and integrated RSS support. Add to this ....
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CSLA .NET 2.1.1 is now available for download from the download
page. This is a bug fix release, which addresses some issues in version 2.1. See
the change
log for details.
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
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A while back I blogged about where I thought the EU
was overreaching and harming consumers. I still think that is the case, but I
also believe in giving credit where credit is due, so here goes.
If the analysis in this
article about a standards-based XPS format is correct, then the EU really may
be helping consumers - whether intentionally, or through an unintended consequence.
If the article is right, and Microsoft follows through with the changes to XPS licensing,
the EU might have created a serious competitor to PDF in the form of XPS.
In my view, it is alm...
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Dunn Training is now offering the first
ever formal training for CSLA .NET. The beta
class is November 20-22, and it is being held in Chattanooga,
TN. The advantage to the beta class, is that it is heavily discounted, because it
is the first public run of the materials, so this is the one chance to get heavily
discounted CSLA .NET classroom training.
The plan is for regular classes to start in early 2007.
I've been working with Miguel Castro as he
builds the content for the course, and this training should be a great way to get
rolling fast with CSLA .NET.
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I recently participated in a panel
discussion on open source software, which was recorded as a MSDN Webcast.
Scott Hanselman even has a picture
of the event.
Though people might argue whether CSLA .NET is
really "open source" (because it has a non-viral license),
it is certainly the case that its source code is open for all
to see and use with almost no restrictions. If you listen to the panel, you'll
find that there's a strong belief by many of us in this space that open source is
an important and valuable part of the software industry; and you'll find that ...
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For better or worse, SOA (service-oriented
architecture) continues to be the current industry fad. As SOA continues along the
“hype curve” (a term I’m borrowing from Gartner), more and more people are starting
to realize that SOA isn’t a silver bullet, and that it doesn’t actually replace n-tier
client/server or object-orientation.
What will most likely happen over
the next couple years, is that SOA will fall into the “pit of disillusionment” (part
of the hype curve, that I think of as the “pit of despair”), and many people wi...
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CSLA .NET version 2.1 is now available for download from www.lhotka.net/cslanet/download.aspx
Please make sure to read the Change
log for this release, as there are substantial changes to validation, authorization
and other parts of the framework. There are a limited number of breaking changes that
may affect your code, so please review the document before attempting to upgrade from
2.0 to 2.1.
The vast majority of the changes in version 2.1 are due to the community feedback
from the great members of the online forum.
I wou...
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This post is in response to some comments in my previous
post, which linked to Steve Yegge’s blog entry about Good
Agile and Bad Agile.
One commenter, JH, makes a perfectly valid observation: criticizing Waterfall and
Agile without offering an alternative isn’t very productive. So…
Actually, truth be known, I used Waterfall and several variations of it for many years
- with success. We collected requirements, analyzed them, did our design, our development,
testing - all the stuff you are supposed to do. And you know, the projects worked
out p...
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A colleague of mine (customer of Magenic) forwarded
me a link to Steve Yegge's wonderful blog
post about Agile methodologies (good and bad).
I think my favorite bit in the whole thing (and there are a lot of good bits!) is
this:
Bad Agile seems for some reason to be embraced by early risers. I think there's
some mystical relationship between the personality traits of "wakes up before dawn",
"likes static typing but not type inference", "is organized to the point of being
anal", "likes team meetings", and "likes Bad Agile". I'm not qu...
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Dunn Training continues to ready its official CSLA .NET training course, with plans for a beta of the course to be taught in November.
http://www.dunntraining.com/CSLATraining.htm
If you are in need of some classroom training on CSLA .NET, November is your first
chance, probably followed by a class in January.
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
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