Monthly Archives: May 2007

June 14th: Silverlight and WPF

Posted on May 30, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

Please sign up via our website or by mailing meetings@dnug.org.uk Silverlight and WPF: The Microsoft Client Platform Silverlight is Microsoft’s solution for delivering rich, cross-platform interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. Silverlight enables the creation of rich, visually stunning … Continue reading →

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DDD5 registration opens

Posted on May 29, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

DDD5 registration is now open at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032342589&Culture=en-GB

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June 14th is next user group meeting date

Posted on May 23, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

This is just a heads up. I am still confirming the line up. It should be at Conway Hall again.

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The problem with archetype patterns and MDA

Posted on May 22, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

I’m reading Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and MDA. I picked this up partially because one of the databases at my current gig has been heavily influenced by some of the ideas here – especially … Continue reading →

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Giving Crystal some Love

Posted on May 21, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

There is an intersting interview here with Alistair Cockburn. Alistair identifies the phenomena that a lot of shops are calling themselves agile, without really knowing what that means. I certainly get that feeback from people that have moved on from … Continue reading →

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Ruby, ASP.NET, and the alpha geeks

Posted on May 21, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

Scott Hanselman asks if Microsoft is losing the web development alpha geeks to Ruby On Rails. Actually I think a number of the cool kids have been playing with Ruby for a while now. When people like Uncle Bob, Martin … Continue reading →

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Which w3wp process belongs to which App Pool

Posted on May 18, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

From the notes to self department: If you are using multiple application pools you may want to know which application pool belongs to which process id; for example, if you want to attach a debugger it is handy to know … Continue reading →

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Silverlight, DLR, et al.

Posted on May 8, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

There has been a fair slew of annoucements at Mix this year. Those of us who were not lucky enough to attend will have to make do with the session recordings. Some are repackagings and enhancements of things we knew … Continue reading →

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May 10th London .NET User Group

Posted on May 6, 2007 by ianhammondcooper

Below is the agenda for the 10th. Please sign up. Location is: http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/ 10 May: AJAX DevelopmentWeb sites are getting richer and user’s expectations around the level of interaction that they can have with a web site are growing. In … Continue reading →

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