30 Jan
Thanks to a code contribution from an adopter of NDbUnit, I’m happy to announce that NDbUnit v1.6 is now released and available for download from the Google Code downloads page with support for Oracle 8i and later.
Oracle support has been on the project’s roadmap for some time now and its great to be able to [...]
Posted in NDbUnit, Proteus Project by: sbohlen
4 Comments
27 Jan
Next Thursday evening (2/4/2010) from 6:00pm-9:00pm I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia Alt.NET user group on real-world Domain Driven Design implementation patterns in .NET.
The full title of the session is going to be “Lessons from the Trenches: Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for DDD in .NET” and the overview synopsis will be:
In this session, we’ll take a [...]
Posted in ALT.NET by: sbohlen
2 Comments
26 Jan
Episode 23 of the Connected Show podcast has been released! In this episode, host Peter Laudati interviews Andrew Brust about what he saw at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and then proceeds to interview none other than yours-truly about some of the work that myself and others have been doing with the Agile Firestarter [...]
Posted in ALT.NET by: sbohlen
4 Comments
20 Jan
Its time for the semi-annual “What is ALT.NET and what does it mean to me?” introspection merry-go-round.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: introspection is a healthy form of self-review and an expression of self-awareness for both people and organizations/movements/shared-value-systems/whatever ALT.NET might be. The last time this theme surfaced (to my knowledge) [...]
Posted in ALT.NET by: sbohlen
1 Comment
18 Jan
This is a public call for greater community participation in the Virtual Alt.Net online community for 2010 and beyond.
What is Virtual Alt.Net?
Virtual Alt.Net is an online community that met weekly over the past year or so utilizing Live Meeting as a platform for exposing as many people as possible to software development concepts and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized by: sbohlen
4 Comments
18 Jan
For those of you who attended the Agile Firestarter in NJ in December of last year (and also anyone who didn’t!), this is just a quick note to let you know that the content for the event’s presentations has been posted for download as mentioned in Peter Laudati’s blog post here. Not all of [...]
Posted in Agile Firestarter, Software Development Resources by: sbohlen
No Comments
15 Jan
The NYC developer community is proud to announce the 4th (sort of annual) Code Camp to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010, from 8:00 AM until 6:30 PM. It will take place at the Manhattan Microsoft office on 6th Avenue across the street from Radio City Music Hall.
We have our call for speakers open [...]
Posted in CodeCamp by: sbohlen
3 Comments
13 Jan
As some of you are aware, back in early October 2009 I was asked by Microsoft to participate in delivering a day-long introduction to the ASP.NET MVC Framework. For more details on the event, see this post.
As a follow-up, I just wanted to let everyone who wasn’t able to attend know that the videos from [...]
Posted in Software Development Resources by: sbohlen
3 Comments
09 Jan
in a recent request for the Proteus Project, a user asked about defining test-related settings in external .config files to control connection strings settings, the location(s) of support files like the serialized dataset xml data files and the dataset xsd schema files, and possibly other things. While it might be of value to ‘formalize’ this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized by: sbohlen
1 Comment