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• New and Notable 120

  Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good to be mainstream again Software Architecture/SOA/WCF Looks like the very capable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz , has essentially picked up the book on SOA Patterns/WCF that I was going to do for Manning. Hey, it looks like its in better hands as I read his first chapter and its great stuff. I look forward to this one.\ Speaking of Arnon on Architecture, check out his column , and in particular "The Saga Continues: "Queues are Databases?" where he responds to Udi who had a couple of comments regarding his second post on Queues Are Databases . Ted Neward has started an MSDN column based on his Pragmatic Architecture talks he has been doing and if the first article in the series on Layering, is any indication it's going to be a great series. Highly Recommended! Scott Hanselman has two great posts on Identity/CardSpaces; first here and then his latest Hanselminutes episode . Lots of great resources here. Also highly recommended! Jorgen points to a Craig McMurtry post on Versioning Service Interfaces, definitely an tricky area. The PAG folks have just released a very much needed " ClickOnce Resource Kit for SCSF " that was developed in partnership with ClickOnce guru Brian Noyes . Nicholas Allan: MixedMode Addressing WPF/Avalon I just discovered this series, which apparently is already in its eighth post; A Tour of XAML VIII: More Fun with Markup Compatability Technorati Tags: SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , Windows Communication Foundation , Software Architecture , WPF , Avalon , Windows Presentation Foundation , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:53 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Smart Clients, Avalon/WPF, Service Oriented Architecture,  WPF

• New and Notable 119

  Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to the infamous Agile Manifesto , I find I am in alignment with just about all his well-argued positions, particular, Unit Testing and Testability over Defensive Coding, Tracing, Debugging, and Paranoid Scoping and Explicit Code over Design Time Wizards. Read it all and come up with your own. Martin Fowler takes on PairProgrammingMisconceptions . Some are obvious but three, in my mind, are not: You have to do pair programming if you're doing an agile process Extreme Programming forces you to do Pair-Programming It's only worth pairing on complex code, rote code yields no advantage. WPF/Avalon/Windows Presentation Foundation Wow! Take a look at XamlPadX (Extended ) [via Mike ] Check out how to create Vista Gadgets using WPF A Sackful of WPF Tidbits from Tim Sneath Learning WPF WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow Tomas with How IMetadataExchange is Hosted WS-MTOM has been released Nicholas Allen::Advanced URL ACLing with Windows Vista Nicholas Allen::Design Pattern for Building Channel Factories and Listeners Vista Vista tips, get yer Vista Tips! Technorati Tags: SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , Windows Communication Foundation , Software Architecture , WPF , Avalon , Windows Presentation Foundation , TDD , Agile , Agile Development , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:36 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, Agile, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, Agile Development, Avalon/WPF, Service Oriented Architecture,  TDD,  WPF

• New and Notable 117

  I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents. I think Stadium Arcadium is their best album since Blood, Sex, Magic (which they pulled out the title song the other night!!). You can't beat a start of Can't Stop-> Dani California! Mars Volta is one of my favorite bands (although hard to take at times) and I am listening to the brilliant new Ampheture right now which they played in full the other night. Live, they come off as a wall of sonic noise and Bixler-Zavala wailing singing, an assault on the senses that drove people nuts (my wife wanted to leave!) and their greatness only came through in sporadic moments (Viscera Eyes). Okay, a lot of stuff today. Number one, I want to congratulate my good friend and master of these types of posts, Mike Gunderloy for hitting The Daily Grind 1000 !! Mike is an incredible asset to the community and a terrific writer to boot. If you are one of the rare people not already subscribed, get your ass over there this minute and make it so! I have started to write (for work) a Workflow XOML loader and executor. I want to do something like XamlPad or even Snippet Compiler to execute my workflows. I have the hosting of the runtime down and loading the XAML/XOML. More later. WCF/SOA/Indigo/BizTalk/Workflow/Distributed .NET Another good friend of mine, Tomas Restepo. has some great stuff: He released his MSMQ Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation. He addresses MsmqListenerService concerns with the above Gets answers for the question of how to get the SOAP Action associated with a given operation when all you have is the OperationDescription for it Points to Ralph Squillace s post an walkthrough entry of how metadata publication (MEX + WSDL) is enabled in Windows Communication Read More... Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:29 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, Agile, Agile and Extreme Programming, Personal and Family (Non-Technical), Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, Blogsphere, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Agile Development, Avalon/WPF,  SOA, Service Oriented Architecture,  PowerShell,  Windows Workflow Foundation, Vista