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Whidbey Class Designer

The May preview of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) included some of the Whitehorse initiative functionality. As I'm particularly keen on UML diagrams as a means of communicating technical concepts...

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June 23, 2004
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Monad/MSH

If you're doing .NET development and have a background in Unix, it's well worth checking out the second half of the new .NET Show episode on Longhorn Fundamentals.

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June 21, 2004
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The API War and Microsoft

Thought I may as well weigh in on Joel Spolsky's post on How Microsoft Lost the API War. It's a great read but I think that Joel is way off on his thoughts on .NET.

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June 20, 2004
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Carpal Tunnel

Though carpal tunnel syndrome isn't directly software development related, it's worth a mention in this blog as I'm sure many software developers will experience it or some form wrist/keyboarding...

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June 14, 2004
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Agile UML

Following on from the Disrespecting UML post, I've been thinking about what "UML" means to different people and what I want from UML tools.

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June 7, 2004
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Disrespecting UML

I was listening to .NET Rocks Live! today and enjoying it as usual. Rocky Lhotka was talking about the Visual Studio 2005 Whitehorse designer functionality.

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June 4, 2004
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