Friday, July 20, 2012

Entity Framework Now Open Source

Microsoft has announced that they are making the Entity Framework (EF) source code available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Along with this announcement, the EF team laid out the plans for their most important additions to EF6. Those include:
  • Support for stored procedures and functions in Code First
  • Task-based Async (using .NET 4.5)
  • Custom-written conventions in Code First

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Power
Every time a piece of software is installed someone gains and someone loses power. We need the cooperation of the losers, and we are in the middle.

Show stopper
What happens if you write the spec so someone loses. That is why the spec ends up wishy washy. At that point we blame the writer for being a bad writer.
We can't build wishy washy code so programmers have to deal with conflict resolution.

Vague specs identify conflicts.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TomsTalkAtXpImmersionThree

Monday, July 2, 2012

Monitoring Driven Development and Performance Driven Development solve different problems with the same approach - introduction of a metrics (KPI) inspection tool as a part of DoD from the very beginning of the development.