I’m very excited to be able to announce that as of this past Monday July 12th, 2010 I have officially begun work in my new position as a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. This opportunity represents the next (interesting) step in my software development career and I’m looking very forward to the kinds of things [...]
Who is Wendy Friedlander?
This is a post that’s a bit off-topic but I hope that you will find value in it all the same. Let me take a moment to introduce you to Wendy Friedlander.
Wendy Friedlander is a software developer, loving mom and wife who turned into a cancer-survivor-in-training on 8/14/2009.
It was the weekend of [...]
Last evening (Thursday) I had the pleasure of being asked to speak at the monthly meeting of the Philadelphia Alt.NET User Group. As mentioned previously in this post here, I delivered my “Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for Domain Driven Design in .NET” presentation to an enthusiastic audience of about 40-50.
A big thanks to everyone who took [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to the Oredev 2009 Oresund Regional Developers Conference where I was invited to present both a half-day workshop and an hour-long regular talk in the .NET conference track. If you’re interested, links to my slides and my code samples can be found for download as mentioned in this [...]
At yesterday’s Philadelphia .NET CodeCamp, I was again wearing my somewhat tongue-in-cheek custom t-shirt with the following platitude on the front and the succinct summary of what I consider to be ALT.NET’s primary raison-d’etre on the reverse side:
As those readers who either attended the Agile Firestarter event in June or watched any of the [...]
Developer Express has just released the ‘2009.2.5’ version of their IDE Productivity Tools, CodeRush, Refactor! Pro, CodeRushXpress, and DXCore.
Just about every time this happens, there’s a need to recompile many (but, interestingly - for reasons I cannot entirely explain – not all!) DXCore-dependent plugins to expose themselves properly within the newly-released DXCore runtime.
CR_ClassCleaner
In the past, [...]
Some quick, semi-structured impressions from my own thoughts and my conversations with others in the .NET (Microsoft Developer) ecosystem since this announcement…
In general, I think this is (or could be, if done right) a good thing for the OSS community in general and for .NET OSS projects specifically
In so far as this (might) be [...]
I’ve recently become slowly more aware that its starting to take me longer and longer to respond to people who contact me, look into resolving issues that people bring to my attention, complete tasks within deadlines that I’ve committed to, and otherwise meet my obligations to others.
As I started to think about why this might [...]
