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I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. [UPDATE] See post ''StyleCop for ReSharper on CodePlex'' for more info.  I've worked on a couple of projects for Microsoft UK - one of the many great aspects of those projects was being able to use some very cool internal tools; my two favourites being the pre-cursors to Team ...

While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph of the technologies to include those that I’ve used over the last 12 months and have also added ...

Seems obvious when you state it out loud, however it is quite amazing how many companies seem to miss this crucial fact when trying to deliver software. To give some context to this topic I was going through my usual evening reading of blogs when I came across a post from Steve Yegge , a Googler titled: Good Agile, Bad AgileNow the title ...

Ok. It feels like I'm heading on something of anti .Net direction recently, but I'd like to assure you I'm not....but I can't resist commenting on this latest blog post by ScottGu, who I may add have a lot of time for (anyone who invented asp.net is good with me). So as you may well be aware, Orcas is due out this year (Q3/Q4) and ...