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The Mindscape documentation process

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:56:12 GMT

A walk through how a commercial software vendor generates the help documentation for their products.

Is Persistence Ignorance Ignorant?

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:57:20 GMT

. . . if you remove TDD from the equation, does Persistence Ignorance still hold water or is it just over-engineering?

Frictionless Continuous Integration

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:50:02 GMT

Getting a continuous integration server up and running is very easy now.

Is Agile a business process

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:49:03 GMT

Some thoughts on Agile and where it fits.

AutoCompleteExtender and numeric strings

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:47:58 GMT

Numeric strings such as 0987-8765-5643-1234 need special attention when using the AutoCompleteExtender - here is how to pull it off.

LightSpeed 2.1 Released - includes new search API

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:01:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2.1, the performance minded object relational mapping framework, is fresh from the oven with new features like database independent full text search capabilities using Lucene.Net, Visual Studio integrated designer enhancements and a bundle of other new features.

A Serious Challenge for Open Source?

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:46:02 GMT

. . . what Mindscape has done is really quite impressive. To evaluate, accept, and incorporate feedback that quickly into the product and to have the installer ready that afternoon is impressive - for anyone.

dashCommerce - Giving even more to the community!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:21:04 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I went around and contributed to just about every open source framework / assembly / tool that dashCommerce uses.

dashCommerce V.Next Dependency Injection /IoC

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:19:26 GMT

With the next rev, we are going to be introducing some Dependency Injection and IoC in order to loosen the application up. I mentioned this in dashCommerce and a crowbar.

Where are all the new ideas?

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:30:02 GMT

. . . there are no new ideas in the .NET space in so far as web development is concerned.

dashCommerce and a crowbar

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:06:21 GMT

dashCommerce has finally grown to a point where the tight coupling is proving to be a hinderance to the ongoing development of the project. So we are going to be taking a crowbar to dashCommerce and prying apart all the bits using some Dependency Injection.

dashCommerce State of the Union Address

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:55:14 GMT

Describes the state of dashCommerce, where its been, where it's headed and discusses some hard numbers for measuring the success of this open source project.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

dashCommerce 3.0 Release

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:46:41 GMT

The dashCommerce 3.0 Release is here!

dashCommerce 3.0 RC1 Released

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:59:15 GMT

The dashCommerce 3.0 Release Candidate is available. From here on out it's just bug fixes and tidying up. This release has been a long time in the making and already I'm thinking of all sorts of ways to make it better.