Winterdom

My good friend Sam has been posting a series of posts on his current project, how they are applying XP and agile practices in it and the tools they are using. Pretty interesting stuff for those of us agile-practitioners-wannabes :)

Brian Harry has a very cool post on how they do manage the branching structure in the developer division for VS development. It's always great to hear about this stuff and how they are using the product. Very timely, as well, as we need a decent branching strategy for our...

A few months ago, I posted a comment on the Visual Studio 2005 and Team System prices and licensing. I gotta admit now that perhaps I was a little bit rushed about it all. I've been working for a couple of months now with VSTS and Team Foundation Server ona...

With the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 today, the new licensing scheme for BizTalk 2006 has been announced. Scott Woodgate talks about it here. Personally, I feel the licensing changes are great. Sure, it raises the price a little bit, but some of the...

Bill Gibson nails it. That's what I do. I am a devarchitect.

Eddie Churchill is showing off prototypes of the BizTalk XSLT Map Editor for BizTalk 200X where X > 6. Very, very nice stuff. I particularly liked the way the feature of highlighting and bringing into view the selected link and link ends, though I'm not sure I liked the tick...

It turns out that for .NET 2.0 there were changes in localized names for months and week days in spanish cultures (es-CO, for example). They used to be capitalized ("Febrero") and now they are not ("febrero"). I logged this to see what the answer was, and, it turns out (not...

Some of my project teammates and myself have encountered what seems to be a farily annoying problem that still seems to exist in VS2005 even in the RC (September CTP). The problem is that the Add New Data Source Wizard in Visual Studio generates a NullReferenceException when trying to add...

I spent yesterday afternoon and this morning getting Team Foundation Server beta 3 installed at work for our project. Before diving into it, I downloaded and read carefully the updated readme and known issues, as recommended by Rob Caron here. I made sure I followed the installation guide step by...

Jesus Rodriguez has a cool article on the WWF Persistence Service. It's pretty interesting to read about these basic services provided by the WWF runtime. Reading this, two questions come to mind which don't seem to be directly addressed in the article: </p> If code external to the workflow calls...