- Azure November CTP announcedThe Windows Azure team announced availability of the November 2009 CTP of Windows Azure along with new Tooling for Visual studio and an improved…
- Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 -- #732In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Brian Genisio, Loek van den Ouweland, Victor Gaudioso, Jeremy Likness, CrocusGirl, Walt Ritscher, Rob Eisenberg, Andrea…
- Adventures in MVVM -- Dependant Properties with INotifyPropertyChangedMore Adventures in MVVM  ![kick it on…
- Exchange 2007 Routing Group Connector MayhemRecently while performing the initial steps for an Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration, I ran into one of the more frustrating issues with Exchange 2003 to…
- TechEd Europe 2009 Highlights and LowlightsIt is Friday 13th Nov 2009 - which means it is the last day of TechEd Europe in Berlin. Overall I have had a good week – high quality sessions, lots of…
- Connect to VMWare virtual machines using Remote DesktopHad a short training on VMWare on Tuesday, the software development department finally got the official permission (read: get a license) to use. I’m no…
- Including ad-hoc specifications in your test reportWhen doing software development the lean/agile way, you don't have much requirement documents produced upfront - and right so, because they tend to become…
- Did you know Microsoft makes a mocking tool? Meet the latest version of PexNo? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and Test Doubles.)
- SQL Server Management Studio now supports SQL AzureI have had a bit of a “SQL Azure” day at TechEd Europe. I sat through David Robinsons excellent intro to SQL Azure development (smooth, on time, great…
- Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 -- #729In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Expression Blend and Deisgn Blog, Alan Mendelevich, Gergely Orosz, Jeff Handley, Chris Klug, Rishi, and Victor Gaudioso.
- Solving 'KataPotter', or: What kind of developer are you ?From time to time (and when there's room for it, of course), I'm doing a so-called Code Kata, a small to mid-size programming exercise that usually…
- Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be ThisSo you have stored procedure and it’s having issues. When you run it, it returns really fast. When.NET runs it, its like a dog.
- Retrieving Nested Properties from Lambda Expressions\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] Supposing you’re using a lambda expression as a neat way to access a named property:
- IronRuby and Cucumber - Installation (Part 1 of 3)This tutorial is based on a short demo/talk I gave at the Columbus .NET Developers Group (CONDG;/1257470135943/)) on IronRuby. It’s mostly designed for…
- IronRuby and Cucumber - Cucumber Tutorial (Part 3 of 3)<< Part 2 – A quick look at IronRuby Gambling with Cucumbers In part 2 we demonstrated how we can mix.NET and Ruby though IronRuby. The question is, why…
- How to enable PowerShell in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2After reading Tim Anderson’s blog article (here) on his installation of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 I glibly added a comment that R2 now includes PowerShell…
- LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the deadI don't know by what magic this happened, but not only is Thumbtack back online, but everything appears to be intact. As my young dev friend Brian would…
- Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 -- #725In this Issue: Michael Palermo, Rishi, Microsoft Expression Blog, Jeremy Likness, David Burela, and Ward Bell.
- TDD is not about testing, it's about how we develop softwareI am practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) now for some two years or so, and soon this technique of writing software felt so natural, that I hardly…
- Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 - 2 -- #724In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Jonathan van de Veen, Stephen Forte, Laurent Duveau(2), Alan Mendelevich, and nmarun.
