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Discussion relating to the Service Factory Guidance, etc. provided by Microsoft.

Microsoft Requirements Tool Requirements

posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:34 PM by mitchell
Note, if you want to play with the Requirements Tool project (mentioned below), you need to have both the Enterprise Library and the Composite UI Block installed. (And, I had to handle a lot of reference errors manually.) Read More
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Service Factory Training - Day 3, Add...

posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:51 PM by mitchell
Service Factory Training - Day 3, Addendum 1 Requirements Gathering and Management (patterns & practices Incubation Project) John Socha-Leialoha Vision lightweight tool does not impose specific process accommodates multiple stakeholder viewpoints Read More
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Service Factory Notes - Day 3

posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:20 PM by mitchell
Service Factory Notes - Day 3 Patterns & Practices Testing and Agile Process Larry Brader (lbrader@microsoft.com) P&P Approach to Testing Testing strategy from the start - testing should start with the architecture Master Test Plan & Release Read More
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Service Factory Training: Day 2 Commentary

posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:51 AM by mitchell
I think, for Day 2 notes commentary, I'm just going to talk about the versioning stuff that Don spoke about. Basically, what he's really talking about is what I'm calling Permissive and Restrictive Versioning. There are some changes, assuming that your Read More
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Service Factory Notes - Day 2

posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:20 PM by mitchell
WCF: Developing Secure Distributed Applications Hongmei Ge (http://blogs.msdn.com/hongmeig/default.aspx) Hongmei's Top Ten List on why to choose WCF 10. Easy to switch between different transports 9. Good extensibility 8. Great IT Pro Tools for Diagnosis Read More
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Server Side Joins the Party

posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:04 PM by mitchell
Talking about the PnP summit last week, they mention the Service Factory... Read More
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Published Day 1 Notes using Writely

posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:02 PM by mitchell
I've used Google Doc's publishing model. Here's the link to the Google version of the notes doc. Also note that, because it's published, you can now view an RSS feed of the revisions. Read More
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Service Factory Training: Day 1 Commentary

posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:49 AM by mitchell
I'm not going to spend a lot of time commenting on the WCF and WF talks we had yesterday. Mostly because I've heard them all before at various venues. We did start to go on a deep dive on the Guidance Package for the Service Factory last night before Read More
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Writely Posting

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 8:12 PM by mitchell
Notice the notes below, written in Writely and posted via the Publishing tool. Read More
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Service Factory Notes - Day 1

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 6:02 PM by mitchell
Service Factory Overview Don Smith - Product Manager for Service Factory (http://tinyurl.com/y3gguu) (note - URL requires passport) maturity level of SOA paramount in adoption of Service Factory zapthink - SO Market research (http://www.zapthink.com) Read More
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Spritely Writely

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 4:25 PM by mitchell
So, I've been taking my notes on the Web Service Factory training using Writely, which is Google's online document editor. So far, I love it. Not only is it responsive and fairly fully featured, but I can export my document in a number of formats, publish Read More
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Pilgrim's Progress: Patience is a Virtue

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 9:01 AM by mitchell
Well, we're almost ready to start. A little bit of a cluster getting in because they take their security semi-seriously here. (It was, actually, easy to breach the physical security into the lobby, but that was about as far as you could get.) More to Read More
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Pilgrim's Progress: Trials and Tribulations

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 8:53 AM by mitchell
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water...sorry, I couldn't resist, Jaws (dang that movie scared me when I was a kid) was showing last night when I finally hit the sack. The sentiment remains, however. I found out why no one seems Read More
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Pilgrimage to Software Mecca (Redmond)

posted Monday, October 16, 2006 1:06 AM by mitchell
Well, I'm heading off to the Mecca of software development, Redmond, WA, otherwise known as the headquarters of Microsoft. I'm going there to learn about Software Factories in general, web service factories specifically, and Guidance Packages. The training Read More
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