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Software Factories..is it worth it?
Last week, I read an article published by Microsoft in cooperation with Siemens that discussed the business case of investing in software factories. In the conclusion, the writers claim that a well-designed software factory can improve your productivity by a factor of 10. However, they also state...
Presentation slides for C# 3.0 and Rhino Mocks
Last Friday, I took the honors of filling up one of the presentation slots at the first Software Development Network Event of 2008. As a enthusiastic user of Rhino Mocks, I used it to demonstrate the power of Rhino Mocks and C# 3.0 combined. Even though my session started right after lunch concu...
.NET community news bulletin issue 2
Yes, I do remember that I promised to write this bulletin at a regular basis, but probably due to my busy schedule and my occasional laziness, I failed horribly. Anyhow, here are some highlights from the last couple of weeks. Patterns & Practices have released a second CTP of a Visual Stud...
Moving to Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008
During the Christmas holiday, I started migrating my customer's development environment to the newest set of Microsoft development products. We already planned to do this a bit earlier, but since we had to wait for the first VS2008 CTP of the Patterns & Practices Web Service Software Factory ...
MVC Framework versus WCSF’s MVP
Last Friday, I gave a talk on the P&P software factories at the December edition of the Software Developers Event in Ede. As can be expected from an enthusiastic audience, somebody asked me about the comparison/positioning of the Web Client Guidance Bundle's Model in relation to the new MVC F...
Slides from Visual Studio 2008 and Design Patterns sessions
As promised, please find the corresponding Powerpoint slides from my last two technology sessions. I still have to clean-up the sources for the design pattern examples, so that may take a while. But I'll make sure to post these as well. Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Design Patte...