Winterdom

Some things I've noticed while using Visual Studio 2008 using the downloadable VSTS VPC image: The IDE, in general, seems a bit snappier than what VS2005 is for me. This is good news, and I do hope it keeps this way. Contrary to what I expected, the Workflow designer is...

One of the new power features in .NET 3.5, sorely missing when .NET 3.0 was released is the integration between Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation, in the way of the new Workflow Services model. Besides providing an easy way to invoke WCF services from WF without resorting to...

Udi Dahan posted a few days ago an entry (rant?) on Web Services as an interoperability option between .NET and Java and the potential pitfalls in that. Based on my personal experience, I can't help but agree with him that there's still a ways to go. Now, don't get me...

One of the things I've been missing while using Vim lately that I relied a lot in other text editors was a decent status line. in particular, I really wanted to have the current line and column number. I've customized my vim installation before, but had not found quite how...

I downloaded the Safari 3.0 for Windows beta last week. Not that I'm particularly interested in moving off Firefox right now, but I thought it might be a useful testing tool for those rare occasions I do web development. Unfortunately, it hasn't proved very successful yet :-). With the original...

Nick Malik has posted another thoughtful piece on the whole Mort topic that's been going around these past few days. While I appreciate where Nick is coming from, I can't agree at all with his perception. Ayende also voiced his opinion on the topic here. Trying to control and bound...

In my previous entry about Morts, Nick Malik left an interesting response. What caught my eye the most was his comment that: "If you find yourself having to maintain a program that was not written to be maintained, don't blame the maker of the tools!" I agree with this sentiment...

There are some discussions going on at this time on the community around the topic ofwriting maintainable code and the different trade-offs a given "project reality"might force on the developers involved in it. Very much worth reading and highlyrecommended everyone reads and participates. Jeremy Miller beat me to it with...

My good friend Sam Gentile pointed to me Nick Malik's post on "Tools for Mort", in which Nick responds to some comments made by Sam a few days ago. I don't particularly agree with Nick's point of view. Several things bothered me about this post. Why are we talking about Mort...

Last week (and Tuesday this week), my friend Carlos and I did a small BizTalk Server 2006 Clinic at one of our clients. I think it went pretty well overall. All the people that attended the clinic were very receptive and seemed really excited about the power of BizTalk and its capabilities....