Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are almost released, one of the new things that ship with this release is Parallel Programming. Since you can't buy a machine anymore with just one core it is time that we developers get intimate with concurrent programming. I decided to play around with this a little today, this is not a real technical post, I mostly show you how you can get started and what new tools are available.

Getting to know Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

The best way to learn about new additions to a framework is to look at some code. There are 22 sam...

I thought I would share a recent question that was raised on LinkedIn, which asked:

Starting the Holy Wars on ESB? Who brings the best package deal to the table i.e IBM, MSFT...... Look at this way " A mid sized cash crunched has to implement ESB what are the options it has" or rather who should it be married to. Any thoughts

Tons of ESB from various players are in the market IBM, MSFT, Oracle , SAP but remember its a cash crunched company which requires the ESB. I can provide more details on the technical side. The idea is to throw ope...

Today I will be having an interview with Roy Osherove about his upcoming book “The Art of Unit Testing“. The book concentrates on unit testing for the .Net developer. And it covers these subjects (as taken from the manning website).

* Introduction to unit testing and the basics of writing real-world unit tests with NUnit

* Best practices for writing maintainable, trustworthy, readable tests

* Mock Objects and integration testing in-depth

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Like Ayende said, It walks like a duck and it talks like a duck but it’s still to be determined what it wants to be. MEF looks like an IoC container but is it really that? No not really. Anyway here are some very good examples of what you can do with it.

The Microsoft Extensibility Framework

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It’s also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

We don’t need architects! …Do we ?

It’s important for us to remember that we develop software to “do something” that we want it to do. In which case we need to continually review the success of that software or...