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April 2007 - Posts

Friday, April 20, 2007 8:38 AM

AJAX AutoComplete Update

A little over a month ago I updated the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit with functionality that allows for multiple word suggestions for the AutoComplete control. Thanks to the AJAX Control Toolkit's new patch utility, I was able to submit a patch that
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Monday, April 16, 2007 6:51 PM

Microsoft Community Betas Are Live!

Check out the Microsoft Community Betas. For some backstory, check out my brief introduction to these services.  Of course, since I focused on TagSpace, I've got to point to Korby's great video tutorial on the service. Technorati tags: Microsoft.Communities,
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Monday, April 16, 2007 2:31 PM

MSDN Agile Development Center

MSDN Solution Architecture Center has recently launched an Agile Development site (RSS). This is yet another great step in showing Microsoft's commitment to Agile and software agility in general.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:40 PM

Software Systems and Coordination Costs

This quote struck me the other day: "As systems get bigger, unless you intentionally reduce coordination costs, things explode." -- Ray Ozzie While Ray isn't specifically talking about software systems in this context, it's definitely applicable to software
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:18 PM

Enterprise Library 3.0 Shipped!

Download on MSDN! Read more about this release from Tom Hollander
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:14 PM

And There Was Great Rejoicing!

The centralized configuration store of the previous IIS releases, known affectionately as the metabase, is gone. - Source I know this isn't new, but it's honestly great to know that my ADSI skills will be deprecated in the near future! P.S. Even if you
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Monday, April 02, 2007 4:25 PM

Patterns and the "TDD Conversation"

Joshua Kerievsky in Refactoring to Patterns writes about how TDD is sort of a continuous conversation with the code which enables an efficient evolution. This is quite a difference from traditional "big up front design" (BUFD) thinking,
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:56 PM

Introducing Microsoft.Community!

As many of you know, I joined the Microsoft Community Technologies team a few months ago. In particular, I've been working on what's called Tagspace, a tagging system that will be used across multiple communities (both inside and outside of Microsoft)
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