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July, 2008

Jul 30 2008   3:45AM GMT

WMOC#13 - REST Twitter Client With WCF



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, f#, agile, c#, LINQ, REST, Visual Basic, WCF, Web services, Languages, Patterns, wmoc

Dominick Baier - WCF Claims to “Zermatt” Claims Migration Story

Ayende Rahien

Charlie Calvert

Edward Bakker -Service Factory Contrib Project

Harry Pierson -Morning Coffee 171 - Languages related news roundup

J.D. Meier -Agile Guidance

Josh Smith -Improvements made to my MVVM commanding solution

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Nicholas Allen

Ron Jacobs - Endpoint.tv - Getting Control of the URI with RESTful WCF Services

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 256, 257, 258, 259,

Scott Hanselman

Udi Dahan - NServiceBus Explanations

News and videos

Mary Jo Foley

Nik Cubrilovic -Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division

Don Box -Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation!

Mike Taulty - Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

Via Channel9 - Jasmine Park: SkyDriving User Experience, Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Code Magazine - Visual Studio Platform and Extensibility
Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

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Jul 30 2008   3:28AM GMT

WSOAC#26 - To ESB or not to ESB…



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, REST, WCF, Web services, Patterns, wsoac

Some interesting  links on whether an ESB is a good choice for an SOA or is it just another integration ‘wolf’ in a SOA ’sheep’s’ clothing.

Via Zapthink -Book Excerpt: Enabling Agile Business with SOA, Sun technologist: SOAP stack a ‘failure’

Dare Obasanjo -Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation, When REST Doesn’t Scale, XMPP to the Rescue?,  Knol : Google’s Assaulton Wikipedia

Stefan Tilkov - On Tim Brays comments on SOAP and the REST Hype

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - SOA Patterns: Chapter 2 for Free Download, REST presentation

Amazon Web Services - New features come to Amazon SimpleDB

Brenda Michelson - New SOA Consortium Podcast: David Butler on SOA Transformation

Dave Linthicum - Settling the ESB/Good SOA Argument, ESBs on trial?

Jon Bachman - Rage against the term ‘ESB’ not the need for Integration

Kirk Evans - Creating a REST Twitter Client With WCF

Kyle Gabhart - The “Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives” Book with excerpts, Service Design - Composite Schema

Michael Meehan - So how SOA are ESBs?

Miko Matsumura -ESB Hate Storm

Surekha Durvasula -Key Best Practices - REST Assured????

Yogish Pai -Mashup, WOA, SOA, SaaS, REST and the kitchen sink

Steve Vinoski - Spot On or “in a spot” depending on which side of the RPC/REST debate you are on

Udi Dahan -Time Dimension Necessary For Successful SOA Data Strategy, [Presentation] Intentions and Interfaces Online

Varsha Kharidaha - Build powerful Java Applications using SOA with New Book

Vasco Kollokian -Try to Stick to the Problem and Describe it Well

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 256


Jul 30 2008   3:11AM GMT

WSDAC#13 - SCRUM resources



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, scrum, Architecture, Design, f#, Development, agile, Languages, Patterns, wsdac

Greg Duncan - An excellent compendium of Scrum Resources

Stefan Tilkov - Blaine Cook on Scalability

Niall Kennedy - Writing Flash for search engines

Dare Obasanjo - What You Can Learn from the Facebook Redesign

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz -[Agile] Software Development: By the People, For the People*

Ayende Rahien -Impedance Mismatch and System Evolution

Haacked -Unit Test Boundaries

Harry Pierson -News of F# and Ruby, Python for the CLR from the microsoft camp

J.D. Meier -Agile Guidance

Jeff Atwood -Coding Without Comments

Via Serverside.com Nagarjun Kandukuru - ThoughtWorks releases Cruise, Continuous Integration System

NickMalik - On Clarifying the Use Case

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 256

Ted Neward - Comments on Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last

Todd Hoff -Google’s Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective

Other interesting articles

Dustin Wax -How to Ask for (and Get) a Raise

Via Channel9 a video of Visual Basic Language Design Meeting


Jul 22 2008   9:02PM GMT

WSDAC#12 - On Scalability



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
f#, erlang, Architecture, Design, Development, c#, SOA, Languages, wsdac

Stefan Tilkov - Resurrecting libxml-ruby, On talking intelligently about scaling different technologies
All about interop -What is Scalability? Do I have Extreme Requirements?

Simon Brown - Practicality vs Following the specification to the T

Ayende Rahien -Patterns for using distributed hash tables: Locking

Charles - John Sheehan: Inside Application Virtualization

Gina Trapani -How to Hack a Technical Job Interview [Weekend Watching]

Harry Pierson -Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170, IronPython Post 2.0 Roadmap

Jeff Atwood -Web Development as Tag Soup - mixing code and tags using templates, Dealing With Bad Apples

Nicholas Allen -XQuery 1.1 Draft

NickMalik -Using Business Process Models as the source for software requirements

Matthew Podwysocki -Recursing into List Processing, Learning Erlang - Erlang Gaining Momentum

Scott Hanselman -Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser’s Search Box

Simon Guest -Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) 2008

Stu Charleton -The freedom to use crap - on open, open source and open source based platforms

Todd Hoff -The Mother of All Database Normalization Debates on Coding Horror


Jul 22 2008   8:47PM GMT

WSOAC#25 - REST eye for an SOA guy



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, REST, SOA, Web services, Patterns, wsoac

Stefan Tilkov - Duncan Cragg: The Universe Web “mashup” of virtual reality and restful services,  Dan Diephouse on REST and Atom, Steve Vinoski: REST Eye for the SOA Guy

Dare Obasanjo -Software as a Service: When Your Business Model Becomes a Paradox

AWS Editor - White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS

Dan Foody - What type of CIO do you need for SOA?

Dave Linthicum - Are ESBs hurting SOA? Or is it just bad architecture?

Ken Rugg - Communication… The New Tower of Babel, without the ability to communicate the people were unable to take advantage of the great infrastructure

Kyle Gabhart - SOAWorld East 2008 - Perspectives

Loraine Lawson - Best Explanation of Microsofts “Oslo” So Far

Nicholas Allen - Standards Guide

Steve Jones - Thinking about service levels

Stu Charleton - On changing industry mindsets, continuing the correctness over convenience debate

Todd Biske - A Key Challenge of Context Driven Architecture

Todd Hoff - Strategy: Front (Amazon) S3 with a Caching Proxy

David Chappell Interview on Software+Services development


Jul 22 2008   8:36PM GMT

WMOC#12 - Terrarium is back!



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, Development, agile, c#, LINQ, WCF, Web services, wmoc, Languages, Patterns

Dominick Baier - Try “Zermatt” and give Feedback

Daniel Cazulino - The need for nullable reference types to advertise optional constructor dependencies

Clemens Vaster -Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name “BizTalk Services” R12 Release

Ayende Rahien - [Unstable code] So you think you are safe…, [Unstable code] Why timeouts doesn’t mean squat…Distributed in memory cache / storage, Patterns for using distributed hash tables: GroupsPatterns for using distributed hash tables: Locking

Dan - David Steere and Trevor Robinson: How Live Mesh P2P Syncing Works

Simon Guest - .NET Terrarium - it’s BAAAAAACK!

FransBouma - The evil of the Office UI ribbon license

Phil Haack - IronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype, Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4

Krzysztof Cwalina - API Design Myth: Exceptions are for “Exceptional Errors”, Nullable<T> Usage Guidelines

Loraine Lawson - Best Explanation of Oslo So Far

Mike Taulty - Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 1 )

Nicholas Allen - W-Standards GuideFinding a Client Channel

Matthew Podwysocki - Recursing into List Processing

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 252New and Notable 253New and Notable 254New and Notable 255How Can I Help You With Your WCF/WF/Neuron/Messaging Needs Today?

Scott Hanselman

Udi Dahan - Durable Messaging Dilemmas

Vittorio bertocci -  Issuing smartcard backed managed cards… using ZermattSetting up a quick & dirty STS which supports smartcard backed managed cards… using Zermatt

David Chappell Interview on Software+Services development

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

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Jul 16 2008   9:31PM GMT

WSDAC#11 - Model driven software development



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, Development, agile, Patterns

Martin Fowloer on  Model Driven Software Development and DSL, Incremental Migration

Dare Obasanjo thinks that Donating software to open source is not a Business Strategy

Ayende Rahien - Notes on versioning Domain Specific Languages

Sean Campbell - Interview with Katie Parlante - President - Open Source Applications Foundation

Jeff Atwood - Maybe Database Normalizing Isn’t Normal!

Yogish Pai -3 Ps of Strategic IT

Simon Guest - What Does An Architect Do?

Todd Hoff - ZooKeeper - A Reliable, Scalable Distributed Coordination System


Jul 16 2008   9:25PM GMT

WSOAC#24 - Protocol Buffers? RPC? are we going back in time?



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, news, Development, REST, WCF, Web services, wsoac

A roundup of all the brouhaha over Googles protocol buffers

Dare Obasanjo  - The Revenge of RPC: Google Protocol Buffers and Facebook Thrift

Steve Vinoski - Protocol Buffers: No Big Deal, Protocol Buffers: Leaky RPC

Ted Neward - So You Say You Want to Kill XML….

Other interesting links…

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - SOA Security Reminder

Dare Obasanjo on Scalability: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It DoesProject Cassandra: Facebook’s Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable

David Bressler - On Roadmaps and Future Product Features…

DotNetInterop - Facebook Thrift, Google ProtoBufs, and Interop

Loraine Lawson - Discussion Focuses on Master Data Management as Critical SOA-Enabler

Michael Arrington - Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model

NickMalik - Growing Rice in the Desert - the Garden of BPM

Yogish Pai -  Business Agility and Business Driven EA Domain Models, SaaS requirements for Large Enterprises

Steve Jones - SOA success - value over technologyReminding vendors of previous statements

Stu Charlton - Continues the discussion of convenience over correctness and asks can technology progress?

Todd Biske - Governance and SOA Success

Mircosoft releases “Zermatt”a programming model for claims based authentication and authorization Keith-brown Introduces Microsoft Code Name Zermatt


Jul 16 2008   9:15PM GMT

WMOC#11 - Zermatt!



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
SOA, Architecture, Design, c#, LINQ, REST, WCF, Web services, Security, wmoc

Steve Maine - Zermatt: Claims-based identity for ASP.NET (and more!)

Vittorio Bertocci - Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework

Dominick Baier - CLR Security Site on Codeplex, Skiing in “Zermatt”

Dare Obasanjo -Network Attached Memory: Terracota as an Alternative to Memcached

Charlie Calvert -LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators

J.D. Meier -Software Guidance Share

Jeff Atwood -Monkeypatching For Humans

Jon Udell -Will people understand and embrace the right identity systems? Maybe yes!

Keith Brown -Introducing Microsoft Code Name Zermatt

Nicholas Allen -Hosting Queued Services in IIS

Matthew Podwysocki -Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 251,

Scott Hanselman -Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer, Back To Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)!

Scott Guthrie -ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)

Tom Hollander -MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

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Jul 9 2008   5:03PM GMT

WSDAC#10 - VB Futures



Posted by: Dilip Krishnan
Architecture, Design, Development, agile, Languages, Patterns, wsdac

Simon Brown asks Who should own the non-functional tests?

From Microsoft TechEd  -Amanda Silver on Visual Basic 2008 and VB in the future

Greg - Continues the series on scrm Scrum Sprint 1 - Week 3 - Reevaluating “Done”

Ryan Carson - How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000

Kirk Evans - Joe DeCarlo on The Microsoft Certified Architect Program

Michael Arrington - Links to two overview videos are below, including an interview with Digg Lead Scientist Anton Kast. Digg Recommendation Engine

NickMalik - Preventing Ownerless Activities — the “Blame the Computer” process modeling antipattern - part 2

Scott Hanselman - In the Back to Basics series,  This is not the object you’re looking…wait, oh, it is the object

Steve Jones - Why people matter more in architecture than technology
Todd Hoff - Five Ways to Stop Framework Fixation from Crashing Your Scaling Strategy

Interesting software development and architecture links

Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for June 30, 2008

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #10 - July 1, 2008