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• Blog is moving...me too!

  Hello reader... The time has come to move on from Conchango . I've had a wonderful time here, nearly 5 years and it's been a real blast. I've learnt so much about top flight consultancy and most of this has come from the superb people I work with. If Read More... Posted 09 June 2005 15:36 by james.simmonds | 3 Comments Filed under: Agile Development, Software Development Practices, Mobile/Gadgets, Miscellaneous, MBUnit

• OpenNetCF Application Blocks arrive!

  Finally! "The OpenNETCF team has worked with the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft to provide a version of the Application Blocks for the .NET Compact Framework. Application Blocks are code used to address the common challenges that developers Read More... Posted 13 May 2005 08:17 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices, Mobile/Gadgets

• .NET Compact Framework and Application Blocks

  Via Larkware (a little late I know but I'm really busy on a project at the moment) Data Access Application Block for .NET CF Hurrah! the first time I've seen these two things mentioned together and I'm excited! Compact Framework Application Block Now Read More... Posted 06 February 2005 10:20 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices, Mobile/Gadgets

• Occam's Razor - Part I

  Well I've started my Christmas holiday today, the first period in over four years I haven't had to work up until Christmas eve (it's ok no heart rending stories of tenacity to get a project done type thing, I've usually used all my holiday allowance is Read More... Posted 20 December 2004 20:27 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile Development, Software Development Practices

• Scrum Sprint best practices – the missing link

  One of the things of interest to me and the guys I worked with on a recent Scrum project is what happened inside a Sprint and this was brought home on the project review we conducted a few days ago; this area seems to be a hot topic not only for us but Read More... Posted 10 December 2004 23:25 by james.simmonds | 8 Comments Filed under: Agile Development, Software Development Practices

• BuildUtilities.NET

  I've been working on putting my SendMSN utility to use on our project build process and have created another utility for those of you that use the MBUnit framework to execute your unit tests. This new .NET console application parses the MBUnit XML results Read More... Posted 02 December 2004 18:00 by james.simmonds | 4 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices

• Sending MSN IM messages from the Command Line

  As part of my education on Continuous Integration and automated builds from the ground up I've been playing with CruiseControl & SDCBuild . As a consequence the project I'm working on has a slick automated build process with unit tests being run etc...I've Read More... Posted 24 November 2004 15:06 by james.simmonds | 44 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices, Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Library...T-minus 3 months and counting

  Enterprise Library 'The Day After' - The Enterprise Library (next version of the various Microsoft Application Blocks all integrated together) is just about ready to ship. Of course, that means Avanade gets the exclusive for three months before the rest Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 11:51 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices

• MSBuild/Nant comparison guide

  The MSBuild team have a wiki on the Channel9 site and they have posted this useful comparison of the two tools. This is useful as a heads up for those developers wishing to port Nant scripts to MSBuild when we get it in VS2005. http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MSBuild.EquivalentTask Read More... Posted 06 November 2004 08:19 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices

• Event Driven Components

  I am a massive fan of event driven programming but I rarely see developers making use of it - it usually provides the best way of keeping a component " clean ". By " clean " I mean the design integrity and functionality is not compromised by or dependent Read More... Posted 02 November 2004 09:22 by james.simmonds | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development Practices