Microsoft's developer division has been making a lot interesting moves lately. They're starting to finally listen to the strong thoughts and opinions coming out of the Java converts in the .NET community and realizing they know what they're talking about. As usual, they're not really innovating, but they're taking existing ideas and building some great tooling around those ideas and delivering them to the masses.
In the March release of MSDN Magazine they published Loosen Up which is a general overview of the benefits of IoC and DI. Just last week Microsoft Pattern's and Practices group released Unity...
I haven't blogged in a long, long time. I'm not sure what got me off the horse exactly, but it's time to get back on.
Recently a past coworker from my Avanade days joined our team at CSG. It's great to have him aboard, but it was a blast from the past for me being around him in a workplace setting. I brought back a lot of memories of the consulting days. Comparing and constrasting current myself with my 18-months-ago self was a little shocking. I'm definitely much less of a Microsoft koolaide drinker and I'm certainly much less interested in...