Here is a really enlightening talk from Udi Dahan about the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern.
Udi goes all the way to why the current architectures must change and what are the benefits introduced by this pattern.
Beware, it’s a long presentation (about 1h40).
Skills Matter : London .NET User Group:Command Query Respons.

À la suite de la présentation Ruby que j’ai donnée il y a quelque temps, je me suis attelé à présenter au groupe Pattern & Practices CGI Québec le framework web Ruby on Rails.
Il s’agit seulement d’une introduction, histoire de donner envie à tout le monde d’aller découvrir ce merveilleux framework qui a inspiré et [...]

I really like to use ActiveRecord when building small apps or internal tools. It offers a lot of great features of his older brother NHibernate, without freightening everybody on your team.
I also really like the ability to generate the database schema based on the domain entities, so you don’t have to worry about SQL and [...]

There are places where we are still stuck with .net framework 2.0 – so WCF is still not available. I’m currently working on such a project.
I’m using asmx web services, and i needed to be able to export the wsdl file generated by the framework, as part of an automated build.
It turns out that it seems [...]

You’re curious and want to try Ubuntu, but you don’t want to mess up you’re computer or deal with the hassle of installing a new operating system? The you should try Ubuntu with the latest VMWare Player.

I’ve installed the Sharepoint Training Kit on my sharepoint training workstation (created here).
After having painfully followed the instructions, I had to spent half an hour to make it work. And it seems i’m not the only one!
I really think it’s a shame for Microsoft to release poor quality software as a training material. They need [...]

Really interesting presentation about a concurrency in the .Net world :
MindTouch @ Monospace: Going Concurrent & Keeping your Sanity « MindTouch Developer Blog.
I should take the time to explore the MindTouch Dream framework.

J’ai donné ce soir au groupe Pattern & Practices CGI Québec une brève introduction à ce merveilleux langage qu’est Ruby.
Cette présentation s’adresse à un public de développeur familiarisé aux langages de développement plus “traditionnels” (.Net, Java, etc.).
Introduction au langage Ruby
View more presentations from Julien Blin.

Les fichiers exemples sont dans le repository git suivant : http://github.com/julienblin/pres-ruby.
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Found here.
To be able to run a program as a domain user when your current workstation is not part of the domain, use the following command line:

runas /netonly /user:domain\username "{program}"

Really nice when you want to connect remotely to a Sql Server with Windows Authentication, without being part of the remote domain.

I’ve just finished to watch the Mastering Git screencast series on tekpub.com
Though I was already familiar with Git, I learned a lot through the 12 episodes. Rob Conery takes the time to explain even the inner workings of Git, or how to simply integrate it with Visual Studio.
If you are using Git, or just interested [...]