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• Enterprise Library 3.0 - available in March

  I found out from Tom Hollander that the second CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 has just been released. He also mentions that the final release should be out sometime in late March. Read More... Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:03 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development, Tools

• O/R Mappers: The Vietnam of Computer Science

  Ted Neward has a great writeup on O/R Mappers being the Vietnam of Computer Science . It is a really good read. I'm kinda late to the party (this was written back in June), so if you haven't already read it then turn off the TV and dedicate some Read More... Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 9:58 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development, Tools

• Creating Project/Item Templates in VS.NET 2005

  Scott Guthrie talks about how to create reusable project and item templates in VS.NET 2005 . I don't need this right now, but it is a good one to remember for later on. On a side note, how come there isn't an entry for ScottGu in wikipedia ? Hey Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:45 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Development, Tools

• Paint.NET

  The next major version of Paint.NET (3.0) will be available sometime in February 2007 (higher likelihood of shipping on time than Windows Vista—according to Allchin ). You can get the just-released alpha build now. For those who are wary of E xpressions Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:26 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Tools, MS Expressions

• TestDriven.NET - dispute over selling code?

  Jamie Cansdale, author of TestDriven.NET and ex-Microsoft MVP has an interesting thread going on at his blog . TestDriven.NET is a fabulous product. I've used it and I love it. If you haven't seen it, download it and give it a try. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:31 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools

• Web Log Analysis Tools

  Recently at work I've had to generate some web site usage statistics and reports from a web server's log files. Here is my review on a couple different tools I've tried out to get the job done. The first one I tried was Analog . Yeah, it could Read More... Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 3:53 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Web Development, Pop Art, Tools

• eXPlainPMT

  Tuesday night I attended a meeting for the XP User Group of Portland . The presentation was on eXPlainPMT , an open source project management tool used to support the XP software process. John Wilger , the presenter, made his slides available and wrote Read More... Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:10 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Ruby on Rails, Software Requirements, Software Development, Tools

• Beyond Compare Update

  A new version of this utility just got released. Now up to 2.4. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:55 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools