Arnon Rotam-Gal-Oz talks about: ”Architect Soft Skills”

This is a very interesting article about the non technical skills an Architect should have: http://www.rgoarchitects.com/nblog/2008/10/26/ArchitectSoftSkills.aspx

Go ahead and read it.

What tools I use when developing software

Gøran Hansen was so kind to tag me with a question what kind of tools I use when developing software. Well looking at his post and at Lars Wilhelmsen, who started this series, post I am not so much a tools kind of guy I guess :)

   
Basic tools:

• Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 I can’t remember last time I used Visual Studio 2003
• ReSharper, I want this everywhere, Gøran I would suggest you really try this one out
• SQL Server Management Studio 2005 / 2008
• Visual Studio Ruby Blue color scheme. I am not happy with how it presents xml related content (I’ll change that some time), but the code view is great for the eyes.
• NUnit
• Rhino Mocks
• Reflector
• Castle Windsor
• NServiceBus starting to use this
• Paint.Net
• PhotoShop
• Notepad it is surprisingly how often I use this.
• TortoiseSVN

Continuous Integration:

• CruiseControl.Net
• NAnt
• MSBuild.exe
• SubVersion
• WiX
• TFS

Information sources:

• Google
• Many many blogs via Google Reader

Currently looking into while reading “Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo”:

• Boo
• Specter
• SharpDevelop

As for tagging others, I wouldn’t know who to tag, so I tag every reader of this blog :) (that should get at least two or three geeks) :)

Crack.Net by Josh Smith

Catchy name for a debugging tool :)

Ever needed to fix a bug that didn't happen on you development machine, but does in test (or production, but the disclaimer clearly states not to use it in production ;) well now you can try this new tool. It injects itself in a running .Net application and allows you to browse and change the objects in the managed heap of that _running_ application.

http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/new-release-of-cracknet-on-codeplex/
http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/cracknet/

A more detailed article about Crack.Net

http://joshsmithonwpf.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cracknet-article1.doc

-Mark

James Kovacs talks about ” Roll-Your-Own IoC” on dnrTV

Here is a very interesting video about Dependency Injection (DIP), Inversion of Control (IoC), Test Driven Development (TDD) and how to write your own simple IoC container. And along the way you'll see some cool R# tricks. This is one of the basis NDA stands on and this is a really clear and easy step through conversation on how to implement DIP, and understand the ideas behind it.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/james.kovacs/archive/2008/10/15/dnrtv-episode-126-roll-your-own-ioc-with-me.aspx

Go Watch it!

My ToDo list

I have too many projects right now:

• Currently reading “Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo” from Ayende Rahien. This is a very interesting book and I’ll definitely write some blog posts about that.
• NDA, thinking what the next post should be about, I like to explain by example so finding a good example is the next step.
• A friend of mine is creating a new design for my blog; this is becoming very cool, not as corny as this current look (I don’t dare calling the current one a design).
• Converting the new blog to Community Server Express edition
• Unit testing XAML definitions, I need to finish that.

And these are only the technical projects that I am talking about; there is also the family :)

New design of my blog

I just created a quick new design for my blog because I didn't like the way the Blogger templates look. So let me know what you think. I am also looking into the free version of Community Server, but those guys take more than 2 day to send me a download link :(