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Today, I played designer
It was rather nice. For a few minutes earlier today, I was able to experience the designer's perspective of Blend. We had a bug filed on one of our common controls' visual appearance, and a designer and a developer were pairing on cleaning it up. They Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:33 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Back from Agile2008!
Wow, so much I probably should talk about, but I don't even know where to start. Massive amounts of networking, information, realization, and even contribution going on, and I can't unravel it at all right now. I think there's a lot of potential for transforming Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:11 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

30 days later
Wow - it's been over thirty days since my last post. What's changed since then? First, we've put http://inkubook.com into production. I'm very proud of the work I've done and that my team has done on this one. We killed ourselves getting it done, but Read More...

Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 9:39 AM by willeke | 1 Comments

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And a subtle shift scrumward
Our team has decided to take a step back towards scrum and away from our previous semi-Kanban approach. I think that it's a good plan at this time, although I also suspect that many of the benefits of our earlier approach will continue to show through. Read More...

Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 1:37 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Thoughts on Batch Size
The concepts surrounding batch size have been floating around my head again in recent days. My current assignment is a rather large batch of work with Silverlight 2.0, but it's one that I've been able to subdivide into a number of small batches that rapidly Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:29 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

Inkubook is (briefly) hiring!
Effective _now_, we are hiring a single experienced individual into an architect or senior developer role. If you have a desire to work with an incredible team, have great .NET coding skills, and have a desire to see your work become a real product in Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:39 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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And now, the issues past, Silverlife is wonderful!
I've managed to get past the random issues that seem to plague me when adopting new technologies, and I'm digging into the meat of Silverlight 2.0 (Beta 1). This is GREAT! Blend is a great tool, and they've made using resources SO MUCH BETTER! The visual Read More...

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 9:25 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Nasty upgrade bug with .NET 3.5...
or silverlight, or visual studio, or something. Anyway, my work is in the Silverlight.net installation forum under a post titled "Silverlight startup error with resources - Summary of fix" The corrected file is attached here, and I hate wasting a full Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:13 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Attachment(s): Microsoft.Common.targets

The first time
Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers. Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15 PM by willeke | 0 Comments


Attachment(s): Rich Branch Management.ppt

My first live blog post... April Indianapolis .NET Developers Association
I've never done this before... I'm sitting in the IndyNDA event for this month, and since there's wireless, and I've got my computer, and IndyNDA's got tables, I thought I'd actually give live posting a try. Expect a stream of thought as I (partially) Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:11 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Linq entities and calling Attach()
Back to tech, for now. I like Linq to SQL. A LOT. However, there have been a handful of things that have annoyed me, and one of them is the story around serialization and disconnected entities. They've built a nice engine for it (DataContract-based), Read More...

Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 2:58 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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It's been a long, long time
It's been years since a new technology actually got me to the point of being "excited". .NET 2.0 almost did it, but I think the day I finally 'got' .NET 1.0 was the last time I was truly excited about a new technology for its own sake. I think I feel Read More...

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 8:39 AM by willeke | 1 Comments

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Linq to XML follow up - how the magic works
If you're curious how the XNamespace works, just do a "Go to Definition" in VS and you'll see the declarations, the key aspects are: public static bool operator !=(XNamespace left, XNamespace right); public static XName operator +(XNamespace ns, string Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:46 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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More LINQ (to XML) happiness
Namespace handling is much improved! Yay for easy namespaces! Anybody who has worked with XML in .NET 1.x or 2.0 knows how much of a pain XML namespaces can be in extracting data, yet they fill a very important part of the XML technology. Now, for linq. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:21 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Sanity check: is your process doing what it needs to?
I rarely repost, but this single, fairly short article seems to hit many of the high points in a very condensed format. If I were in a southern church hearing this read i would expect a constant stream of "Amen" echoing around me. Read it. Think about Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:32 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Difference between setting InnerText and InnerHtml
What's the difference between these two lines? scriptInit.InnerHtml = string.Format(creationFormat, outerDiv.ClientID, someOtherString); scriptInit.InnerText = string.Format(creationFormat, outerDiv.ClientID, someOtherString); Answer: The first one doesn't Read More...

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:56 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Linq is GREATNESS!
Freaking amazing. Scenario: I need to load the contents of a table into a dictionary of objects keyed by one of the fields. Before: Write the ORM code to load the entire table. (3 lines) Initialize the dictionary (1 line). Write the for each loop to move Read More...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 1:19 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Linq is Goodness
I'm almost beyond words in a geeky technical sort of way. The ease and simplicity of accomplishing my desires is releasing a sense of joy that I have not felt professionally for quite some time. My desire is made manifest, and I don't have to fight the Read More...

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 9:04 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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ASP.NET MVC Framework - first impression
I've read the lengthy articles that Guthrie posted, and I've followed the buzz with interest, but tonight I finally sat down and gave it a shot. First impression: the "default" application is among the most useful I've seen of any templated project. Most Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:04 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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IDisposable.Dispose isn't.
Ok - Rule #1 of .NET programming: If it's Disposable, dispose it... wrap it in a using statement, call Dispose... SOMETHING! Easy, once you think that way, nothing to worry about. Except... when you declare a Mutex, try to dispose it, and get this message: Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:17 PM by willeke | 6 Comments

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Refuctoring
Read it once a month to remember why you're agile! http://waterfall2006.com/gorman.html http://waterfall2006.com/Refuctoring.pdf Read More...

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 2:23 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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TFS Sql script - list policy overrides
I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Microformats
Went to ArcReady today, which was supposed to be about software + services, but it turned into a nice discussion of Microformats . As a result, I did more investigation. Larry 's right... this is going to be hot (if he's wrong, so am I!) More when I dig Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:33 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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DelegatingMatcher
Really easy thing that I thought would be in the nMock framework somewhere, but couldn't find: A way to call custom validation code against the matched object. With .NET2's anonymous delegates, it was pretty easy to whip up just such a beast (with a bonus Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:01 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Testing delegates with nUnit and nMock
Recently, I've been trying to put real unit tests around the Presenters in our MVP pattern, and because the view fires events to notify the Presenter of behavior from the user, I've had a need to inject the proper subscription and firing of those events Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:54 AM by willeke | 1 Comments

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