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This post is not about any technical concept, but about the concepts of a given team (or) the comparison of traditional and agile teams Traditional Teams Parameter SelfManaged Teams Direction and Control Manager's Role Coaching, facilitation, and support Manager Responsibility for Performance Team Top Down Information Flow Downwards, upwards and cross Narrow, single-task roles Job Role/Function Whole process and multiple task Top Down, imposed Decision Making By Team, within agreed boundaries Manager Authority Team   Static Development of team Evolutionary   This above table is taken from a magazine that is currently not in print. Executive Capsule is the name of the magazine.

While understanding the best practices for exception handling / tracking / etc., in the .NET, I’ve ended up with the below information Best practices in Exception handling within .NET Before identifying the best practices, it is mandatory to identify the exception generation situations and handle them to the best need of the situation. The below is the best scenario for the exception handling.   Fig 1: Exception Workflow [ Source : Internet, I forgot the source link, but I’ve copied this above diagram. As soon I find the source, would mention here. In case if the reader came across of the previous article, please let me know The above diagram is copied from Christian Thilmany ’s blog post from this link . ] There are two ways of handling these exceptions ·          Catch them & Act Immediately o    Early o    Late ·          Catch them to Record (or) log & Act aft...

Now-a-days, I’ve been exploring much thru VB.NET programming. As being a programmer for more than 3 years, I’ve found difficulties in VB.NET programming towards writing the right syntax. But all these days, I used to think that there are online code conversion tools available to make my life easy. But I were found mistaken with the widely available code conversion tools. There are 2 tools that are widely used by the industry. One is from Telerik and the other is from Developer fusion . These both do the work till the maximum extent, but couldn’t handle the situation of event delegates and lambda expressions. The main problem is this with many of the free tools, they would not be having that intelligence provided for free. Surprisingly,  Developer fusion doesn’t provide any paid services. Telerik didn’t indicate that there is a paid version for the same. Hence, my work become more troublesome. While planning to post a query at the MSDN Forums for VB.NET lambda expressions as well...

In our recent project, we are following SOA principles. Everyone think of SOA based applications, but they would have their own means applied for it. In this post, I’m too trying to convey my meaning and how we found it is profitable for both, the client and the development teams. Our SOA is spanned across 6 stages. Every stage has it’s own importance as well as documentation involved. Before we proceed further, we are not just working on the water fall model, but we also follow the Agile Methodologies. It really and clearly mentioned in every methodology that documentation is mandatory. But again, every methodology has it’s own recommendation towards documentation. Instead of talk / debate / write more about the Methodologies (vs) Documentation , let me go into the SOA Phases that worked for our current project. Stage 1: Service Candidates At this stage, we identify the business from very high level and understand the candidates that play vital role in serving the business as Servi...

  Many a times, i get to read from lots of places as, “.. don’t use generic exceptions, as they are very expensive .. instead use specific exceptions like devidebyzero .. blah .. blah ..” According to the MSDN Article from this link , it clearly states to use specific exception, but doesn’t give you as why to use specific exception. You can read my comment beneath the article . If you don’t see that, here it is. When you use the catch and cast that as generic exception, it then compares with the following set of exceptions. Which is definitely an unwanted comparison or type conversion with the exact exception that is caught and caused by the code.. Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine..::.InternalLoggerException Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine..::.InvalidProjectFileException Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine..::.InvalidToolsetDefinitionException Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine..::.RemoteErrorException Microsoft.Build.Framework..::.LoggerException Microsoft.JScript..::.CmdLineException Microsoft.JScri...

Am a big favorite of EntLib. I started using this from v1.1 during June 2005. The good thing from the latest version is that they are not adding any more blocks, on top of it they are removing some unwanted code. They are targeting to release this by 14th of April after 2days of VS2010.

Microsoft’s co-founder, Bill Gates started a new website about his leanings and thoughts that are cooking in his mind. It is really good to know such transparent information from a person like him. Every January, he writes a news letter to all the employees of Microsoft and shares his ideas to them. This year is some thing different. Why only the Microsofties know about him, not the world. From this thought is raised a new concept of sharing via web. Did you see this web, the Gates Notes . It has various sections like, Thinking, Learning, Travel, blah.. blah .. Why don’t you go there and start exploring more about him. BTW don’t forget to convey this to your friends..