Back in July, I posted about the documentation shipped with the first release of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (aka Prism). Some months ago, the docs have been presented in book format: (more details | PDF version) Recently, I have been notified that the Japanese version is also available: This is great news –... read more
As you may already now, the Composite Application Guidance for WPF was released a few days ago. In this project I had the pleasure of working with the patterns & practices team, mainly as a technical writer. (I wrote a few lines of code too, but nothing compared to the huge job done by devs!)... read more
In a previous post I commented about the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which we use as part of our mentoring process. In this case Diego Marcet, a new southy that joined the company a week ago, wrote a blog entry giving his impressions about this mentoring process. He says: [...] The... read more
Want to see how we work at Prism? Don’t miss this great post from Glenn. He describes the team, how we work, what being at the team room feels, and he also shows pictures of the (distributed) team and includes videos that show how we do iteration planning. The Prism team. 1st picture: Redmond,... read more
This is a question I made myself many times: What book would you recommend to a guy that is new to your company? or even this one: What book would you recommend to a guy that is new to your company, who has never programmed Object-Oriented and who has never worked with .NET or Java?... read more
As Blaine already announced, we have published the Web Client Software Factory documentation on MSDN. After so much work spent on the docs, it is great to see them standing there. I hope it will help users find what they need quickly, and to evaluate the factory’s content before downloading it. Much has been mentioned... read more
In case you missed it, Mariano Converti has been blogging about the Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory in spanish. It's good to hear that because there are very few people blogging in spanish about CAB and a lot of hispanic CAB users, so this is very valuable to the community. Here is... read more
Johnny reminded me with this nice post that one year ago, we were working together in Redmond for the Web Client Software Factory project; I can’t believe how fast the time goes, thanks Johnny for the remainder! Looking at the collage he assembled a funny unit test came to my mind. Yes, a unit test... read more
We released a draft version of the hands on labs for Smart Client Software Factory almost a month ago, and we got over 1000 downloads. We will release the final version soon which will include, apart from the current labs, the following ones: Adding offline capabilities to your solution through the Disconnected Service Agent Application... read more
After a long waiting, the hands on labs for WC-SF June 2007 are out Download The labs are based on the ones we used for the workshop held in Redmond on March 2007, but they contain a lot more content, background information, and revised procedures. Please let us know what you think about them. Content Lab 1:... read more
