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Live from LA
Well, here I am. After an agonizing 11-hour flight from Amsterdam to LA in a Boeing 747-400, I’m finally in the City of Angels, also known as Los Angeles California. Fortunately, the entire Dutch .NET community joined me on this KLM flight, so we spend loads of time discussing architecture….NOT. ...
Slides and demo code from the SDN Conference 2008
For the attendees who have visited my two sessions on building a service oriented architecture using architectural best practices, check out the introduction slides here and the slides with best practices over here. Also, build 2187 of the demo application can be downloaded from this location. I...
Soon, in a theater near you
Well, not a real theater though, but nevertheless, I'll be speaking at two events planned in the next two months. On Saturday the 6th of September, the Dutch .NET community will be organizing CodeCamp, an interactive event intended for developers by developers. I'll be hosting a Chalk 'n...
Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2008, Team Foundation Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 have been released
If you have, like me, been regularly checking the MSDN blogs, you must have noticed the dozens of posts on yesterday's release of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1. So, I'm not going to repeat the list of what's new ove...
Guidebook: Microsoft Patterns & Practices
In the beginning of this year, Nucleus Research has been interviewing several architects from the .NET community with the intention of writing a whitepaper on the added value of Microsoft's patterns & practices. As an expert advisor to the Web Service Software Factory : Modeling Edition, I wa...
First impressions with NHibernate 2.0
Almost two months ago, Ayenda Rahien announced the release of the first alpha of a new generation of NHibernate. NHibernate's feature set has always been a subset of the corresponding Java equivalent, Hibernate 3.x. With the new Nhibernate 2.0 release, the team has aligned its feature set with th...