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Lessons on Software Development – From Bruce Lee!
28 March 10 05:11 AM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
While we as software developers are used to learning lessons and adopting techniques from other disciplines, it is not often that we look to the martial arts for new ideas on development approaches.  However, this blog post does just that. The author end with the following thought: In the end, follow Bruce Lee’s advice: Examine what others have to offer, take what is useful, and adapt it if necessary. I’ll close with an old quote: “The style doesn’t make the fighter, the fighter makes the style...
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March 2010 Meeting of Israel Dot Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG)
15 March 10 09:24 AM | JackieG | 2 comment(s)
Note the special date of this meeting - Wednesday March 24, 2010 For our March 2010 meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group we have the opportunity for a special meeting with Brad Abrams from Microsoft Corp, who will in Israel for the Developer Academy 4 event. Our user group meeting will be held on Wednesday March 24, 2010 .   This meeting will focus on building Line of Business applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010. Abstract: Building Business Applications...
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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 Released
21 October 09 09:44 AM | JackieG | 2 comment(s)
While the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is getting all of the attention this week, version 2.0 of the Microsoft Sync Framework was also released this week and can be downloaded from here . Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/
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Just Released – Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
31 March 09 04:55 AM | JackieG | with no comments
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) This release is provided to help Visual Basic developers use the Composite Application Library. The release includes QuickStarts, the Composite Application Library (only provided in C#), and documentation. The documentation includes: Visual Basic Content...
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The Official Release Version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Available
18 March 09 11:31 AM | JackieG | with no comments
The official version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available for download here . I’ve already suggested that you check out the free 184-page book chapter on building an app with MVC by Scott Guthrie. Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/
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March 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
27 February 09 05:59 AM | JackieG | 359 comment(s)
This month we take a look at design and architecture, rather than specific technologies. Konstantin Triger, a Senior Consultant at Sela, will take a look at the deadly sins of performance, particularly from the design perspective.  It is important to remember that low-level implementation details are irrelevant if the high-end design accounts for 90% of the bottlenecks in the final product.  This session will help to make correct performance related decisions during design phase and will...
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Software Development Flight to Quality
24 February 09 04:28 AM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
Soon after yesterday’s post with a link to our new case studies, I came across a very informative report that I must share with you.  At the start of every year, the law firm Morrison & Foerster, which tracks the global outsourcing industry, conducts a survey regarding the current state of the world’s outsourcing market and emerging trends likely to shape that market over the next twelve months.  There are a lot of interesting ideas in the report, which can be found at http://www.mofo...
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MSDN Screencast Library
23 February 09 05:03 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
The MSDN team over in the UK has put together a huge collection (279 at the time of this post) of short screencasts for .NET developers.  Each video is only about 10-15 minutes long, but packs a lot of useful information.  Here is the full List of Screencasts . From the home page: Don't have the time to read a 10-page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN screencast, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer...
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Renaissance Case Studies Now Available
23 February 09 04:03 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
A few weeks ago, The Renaissance Computer Systems web site was updated with a set of case studies describing our roles in several recent projects.  Check out Renaissance Case Studies and let me know if you have any comments. Cross Posted from http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/
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Roger Sessions on System Complexity at VSLive Dallas
28 December 08 10:56 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
While reviewing VSLive Dallas , I also want to mention that I sat in on a very good (keynote) session by Roger Sessions. I have read many of his articles and newsletters over the past years, so I wanted to take the opportunity to hear him speak in person. His session was titled " Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises " and spent alot of doing making some simple, but critical points about building complex systems. Of course, in a 1-hour session, he barely covered the analysis of the...
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Adding Instant Messaging to your Web Site
28 December 08 10:40 PM | JackieG | with no comments
One of the fun demos that I did in my session on the Windows Live SDK at VSLive Dallas earlier this month, was to do a live demo of adding Windows Live Instant Messaging to a live web site in real-time. I generally think (at least) twice about doing such live demos - especially on a production web site - since SOO much can go wrong. But adding the Windows Live Messenger control is really that easy! The details on the control can be found on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb936682...
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January 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
24 December 08 03:45 PM | JackieG | 1 comment(s)
January’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Juval Lowy from IDesign. Juval is a world-famous expert on WCF and Connected Systems and will be sharing his expertise with us in this session: Introducing the .NET Service Bus The .NET services bus is part of the new Microsoft Cloud Computing Windows Azure initiative, and arguably, it is the most accessible, ready to use, powerful, and needed...
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Heading Off to VSLive Dallas
05 December 08 07:30 AM | JackieG | with no comments
Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session will discuss several challenges facing developers developing distributed data access applications. These issues include hierarchical updates, use of VS tools to generate truly N-tier applications, separation of data entity and data access...
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It Would be Even Funnier, if it Wasn't so Sad and True
29 August 08 06:47 AM | JackieG | 4 comment(s)
Willy Tay sent me a link to this Hug a Developer video as an interesting tangent to my post on software development outsourcing and failures. As you watch the video you will laugh at the humorous portrayal of sad situations, that we have all lived through at one time or another.
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Outsourcing Software Development - You Get What You Pay For
27 August 08 05:06 PM | JackieG | 2 comment(s)
This post is excerpting / paraphrasing a section that appeared in our July 2008 newsletter . I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this. Over the past months, I have been approached by several different companies to help them clean up someone else’s mess (actually, disaster). Some of these companies we’ve been able to help (essentially rewriting their system), some we’ve had to turn down, and a few we are still in the midst of discussions and specifications. The details are different, but...
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