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Ultimate Developer Tool List and WSSF Woes

I first met Scott Hanselman at the bus stop outside the W Hotel in Seattle. A group of devs including Rob Howard, Scott and I were waiting to go the the Mother Ship to have our brains crammed full of Geek Food. This guy is a ball of fire, I'm not sure if he ever sleeps (Scott Guthrie is another one of those). N.B. -Hanselman is walking to fight Diabetes and you can help! Anyway, Scott has come out with his 2007 version " Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List ". Once again he features my litle UrlKicker tray tool that will band-aid broken copied urls together and take you there, search on a number of providers with a copied search phrase to the clipboard, and even has a little "notes" facility that enables you to make notes and view them. WSSF Woes One of the problems you may encounter when using GAT packages and framework - generation wizards like the WSSF (Web Services Software Factory) is that the wizards don't always want to allow you to do "...

WSSF: Software Factories and You (or "Help, I've Fallen...")

"If it really were 1985 and you were writing Windows, you wouldn't even be doing it in C ... Windows itself was written in 8086 Assembly Language" -- Charles Petzold First - what's a Software Factory? In software engineering and enterprise software architecture, a software factory is defined as a software organization structured such that software projects are built in discrete "work centers". These generally represent, or specialize in, certain software disciplines such as architecture, design, construction, integration, test, maintenance, packaging, release, etc. Much like a true manufacturing facility, software factories require clearly defined product creation and management processes. By utilizing the same fundamentals as industrial manufacturing, a true Software Factory can achieve a superior level of application assembly even when assembling new or horizontal solutions. This can provide benefits in terms of economies of scale, geographic distributio...