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For the last 6 months I’ve been leading a small team to deliver a “best of breed” ecommerce retail site, based on ASP.NET MVC, Sharp Architecture, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Spark View Engine, N2CMS, Castle Windsor, xVal Framework, AutoMapper, PostSharp, Gallio / MBUnit / DevelopWithPassion.bdd, Solr and SolrNet. We delivered it in 10 x 2 week ...

Microsoft released a new version of StyleCop - v4.3.1.3 last week and so we've just released a new compatible version of StyleCop for ReSharper. 

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 ...

Conchango is out in full force at PDC 2008 - Simon Bennett, Colin Bird, Paul Dawson, Simon Evans, Rob Grigg, Matt Mould and myself are all in attendance. Simon B, Colin and Paul are all presenting, whereas the rest of us will have a slightly less stressful time trying to try to absorb as much new info as possible. Hopefully we'll also be attending ...

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 ...

Yesterday I attended DDD!D 3 along with other Conchango-ites Richard Griffin, Andy Britcliffe, Mark Mann, Tony Scott and Christian Wade – who incidentally gave a talk titled “SQL Server 2005 Development: Tips n’ Tricks”. This is the first time I had attended DDD!D - there was a great buzz and it was really impressive to see so many people give up ...