Mike Lorengo's Weblog

Blog Clippings #2

I was having lunch today when it occurred to me that I haven't blogged an entry in at least 3 months. Part of this has been due to my laptop going belly up, my new job, and just plain old fashioned laziness. So until I get the data off my laptop, this post will be in the spirit of laziness.

Powertoys for VS2005 Beta 2

From the Class Designer team blog... "The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both the Class Designer and the Distributed System Designers"

GTDTiddlyWiki

A simple html file based wiki. Simply download to your thumb drive and you have your own personal wiki. For those not in the know GTD stands for Getting Things Done, here's a wiki that talks about GTD.

Smell To Refactorings

When looking at code you begin to notice certain smells. This table organizes the smells, and proposes refactoring operations to clean up the smell.

Designing Great Frameworks

Brad Abrams presents a series of lectures on design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework.

Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development, Beta

This download contains the agile process guidance that will be shipping with Visual Studio Team System. MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the ideas embodied in Team System. This process incorporates proven practices developed at Microsoft around requirements, design, security, performance, and testing.

Nic Wolfe's Password Generator

Now only remember a single pass phrase yet still have highly secure unique passwords for all of your sites.