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John Mandia

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• New ASP testing bundle being launched

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 09:39 by John_Mandia

  Yes this blog post is related to the promotion detailed below. Just thought I would point it out :) Why post it? Well: (1) I have heard Typemock Isolator is a good mocking framework especially when it comes to testing legacy code so I don't mind promoting it in this way (2) I've used Rhino.Mocks in the past and like it but would like to be able to also try out Typemock (beyond a trial) so this will give me a chance to compare both.

• Prism V2 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 - Released

  Posted: 17 Feb 2009 at 00:38 by John_Mandia

  I mainly do these short announcements via my twitter account http://twitter.com/jmandia but I have been looking forward to digging into Prism v2 but held off until it was released (which is now :D).I am glad to see guidance come out that covers WPF and Silverlight and it has been good to see how Prism v2 has changed over the 10 drops they did (and the fact that they asked for feedback on their thoughts on naming conventions and the ideas they were investigating).The prism team were also very res

• Everything has its place

  Posted: 14 Jan 2009 at 23:46 by John_Mandia

  I had resisted signing up to Twitter as I really didn't see the point and now that my little family has grown over the festive season I have even less time (I've heard that reading tweets can become addictive :D ).I did however see how Twitter could fit alongside my other tools/sites. Twitter will be used for short tech posts instead of this blog (I'd like to keep the points of interest posts going and add some bigger posts in the future).So if you are interested you can follow me on http://twit

• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta Released!

  Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 05:45

  Another release I thought would come during the PDC has been released:Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta Click the link above to go to the Microsoft download page.Some points about the release (Headings taken from the What's New section): MvcFutures.dll is not included in the beta (as it wouldn't be includ

• Flash Player 10 is out. A co-incidence perhaps?

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 12:41

  It looks like Adobe have just released version 10 of their Flash Player with a bunch of enhancements. Now that Silverlight 2 is out the competition really begins.http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Adobe-Releases-Flash-Player-10/?kc=rssNow that the foundation is laid (a subset of the .n

• Silverlight 2 is out, a question and the BBC iPlayer

  Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 17:22 by John_Mandia

  Well I think most blogs already have this covered but Silverlight 2 is out!  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released.aspx One question I asked (after I said congratulations on the release of course :D) was: I have a question regarding a point made in the press r

• Silverlight 2 RTW out tomorrow - October 14th!

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 17:32 by John_Mandia

  In my last points of interest post I mentioned that an announcement was going to be made today. I thought it would either be a release date announcement (if they were going to miss the PDC) or that Silverlight was actually released. Well it appears it is not out now but will be by the end of tomorro

• Points of interest #11 - Silverlight, Open Source

  Posted: 12 Oct 2008 at 15:54 by John_Mandia

  I've decided to restart my "Points of interest" posts. To get the ball rolling I'll start off small: Open Source Old news but Jitterbit 2.0 was released in August. http://www.jitterbit.comThe Jitterbit Integration Solution combines intuitive integration design with robust functionality and

• RIA and Search Engine Optimisation......Adobe leading the charge

  Posted: 01 Jul 2008 at 13:51 by John_Mandia

  I've often commented on my wish for the Silverlight team to focus a little more on Search Engine Optimisation (and printing support....but that's a topic for another day) as I feel that this is one area that could put off a lot of business users (yes you can argue that it is an application and if yo

• Tip for those of you using CruiseControl.Net (CC.NET) with Perforce - error: Request too large

  Posted: 03 Apr 2008 at 11:29 by John_Mandia

  I use CC.Net quite a lot now with Perforce and ClearCase and I was recently asked to help out a team who were having some problems. A CI project had been setup on CC.NET and it "seemed" to be running fine. Someone would checkin the file and the project would detect the changes. Unfortunately the fil

• Tip for those of you using CruiseControl.Net (CC.NET) with Perforce - error: Request too large

  Posted: 03 Apr 2008 at 10:29

  I use CC.Net quite a lot now with Perforce and ClearCase and I was recently asked to help out a team who were having some problems. A CI project had been setup on CC.NET and it "seemed" to be running fine. Someone would checkin the file and the project would detect the changes. Unfortunately the fil

• Spoiler (Perhaps) - Silverlight to run on Symbian phones!

  Posted: 04 Mar 2008 at 09:17 by John_Mandia

  Microsoft is working with Nokia to get Silverlight running on Symbian mobile phones. Would this help influence your decision to use Silverlight for UI over other technologies. It seems like the build up to mix is starting to happen with more and more news coming out as we get closer to the event. ..

• For those of you on the lookout for more information about MIX 08 and Silverlight, IIS or MVC

  Posted: 16 Feb 2008 at 20:41 by John_Mandia

  Now I usually aim to have either my own content or a collection of links (a points of interest post) instead of a single link to another site but I know a lot of people are on the lookout for anything they can find out about Silverlight 2.0 and Mix so I thought I would post this links. DNR have just

• Sandcastle January 2008 Release Available

  Posted: 16 Jan 2008 at 10:36 by John_Mandia

  It looks like Sandcastle has now moved to codeplex.  http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=9921 I've been looking at CI (primarily using CC.NET) a lot over the last few months and have been encountering issues with NDoc (given that it is no longer developed a

• Silverlight SEO (Search Engine Optimisation / Search Engine Optimization)

  Posted: 04 Jan 2008 at 00:45 by John_Mandia

  One of my new resolutions was to look at Silverlight more closely, especially with regards to search engine optimisation which is something I raised back in May in my "Points of interest #6" post. What are some of the things I like about Silverlight (this is not a complete list but some quick points

• Happy New Year

  Posted: 01 Jan 2008 at 23:59 by John_Mandia

  Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008! 2007 had its ups and downs but it will always be considered a great year as 2007 was the year I became a dad. Things to aim for in 2008:Learn Silverlight (I've had a quick play and read books but I really want to learn it by building an app or site of some kind).

• Merry Christmas Everyone

  Posted: 24 Dec 2007 at 16:30 by John_Mandia

  Hi All! Just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone. I know l stopped blogging about 6 months ago but the reason behind that was I became a dad for the first time and little Sofia came into our lives.  Now everyone says this and I can vouch that it is true, when you do have a kid it is fanta

• Points of interest #10 - Ajax, Silverlight, WPF, P&P, Firefox and SharePoint

  Posted: 03 Jun 2007 at 12:06 by John_Mandia

  A slight change this week. POI titles will now include the main topics covered in each post ("Other" and "Learning" will usually be included by default so they won't be mentioned in the title). Here are this week's points of interest: Ajax Google announces Google Gears. Their framework for allowing

• Points of interest #9

  Posted: 26 May 2007 at 21:21 by John_Mandia

  Well this week was a nice rest, most of it spent relaxing with my wife. So it was a non-coding week but a range of links did catch my interest: Silverlight/WPF Laurent Duveau lets us know that Expression Studio is now available on MSDN. Ashish posts a lot of links related to WPF. Brad Abrans posts a

• Points of interest #8

  Posted: 20 May 2007 at 13:16 by John_Mandia

  Another week has shot by. Didn't have any time to look at Silverlight although I have managed to download the Orcas Beta and get everything set-up so I'm good to go (whenever I find a spare moment). Links that have caught my interest this week are: Silverlight Ernie has created a cool plugin for ref