Monthly Archives: October 2008

Windows LiveID an OpenID Provider

Posted on October 27, 2008 by James Thigpen

Microsoft is going to support the open standard OpenID by making LiveID an OpenID provider. Say Whaaat?! Who are you and what have you done with our Microsoft?!

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Windows Azure

Posted on October 27, 2008 by James Thigpen

I’m watching the PDC 08 keynote on Windows Azure, and it’s pretty cool. The speakers are kind of horrible, and the product demos were pretty crappy, but I get the idea. This is big. Windows Azure, for all the bad … Continue reading →

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NH-1520 or: Oren is a Machine

Posted on October 10, 2008 by James Thigpen

Please direct your attention to http://jira.nhibernate.org/browse/NH-1520. It’s a simple bug, annoyed me a few months back, but I didn’t get a chance to investigate further until recently, when I was reminded of it by someone posting on the Rhino Tools … Continue reading →

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Capture.Exception – BDD-esque w/ NUnit or: The Ikea Nightstand

Posted on October 6, 2008 by James Thigpen

UPDATE: After some feedback from Scott Bellware, Check below for the updated version. I’ve been experimenting with BDD (or at least a BDD-inspired syntax, so as not to invoke the rage of the BDD mafia). I wove my own Spec … Continue reading →

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MEF, MS-LPL, MS-PL, IServiceLocator, Oh My!

Posted on October 2, 2008 by James Thigpen

Microsoft recently release the Managed Extensibility Framework on CodePlex under an open source license, the MS-LPL. There were some issues with the license selected for release, and it looks like Glenn Block spearheaded an effort to rerelease the MEF under … Continue reading →

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