Martin Fowler is wring a new Book on DSLs via Don Box

Paper: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Steve Yegge on self-hosting languages via Stefan Tilkov

Steve Vinoski on why being a Multilingual programmer is important

And last but not the least Tom Hollander’s thoughts on being a Solution Architect

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Elswhere in cloud computing news Coding the Architecture talks about Elastic computing and how he thinks architects need to approach this new phenomenon And “Stu says” a what hes been working on has emerged in “cloud”

Sam Gentile gives a High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture

Scott Hanselman looks at - OpenID Edition in his “The Weekly Source Code” blog

David Chappell on Understanding Windows CardSpace

Ted Neward on what he thinks is wrong with “ESB”, Everything!!!!

Michael Meehan on the state of SOA in the Telecom industry

James Webber links to an article on why URI Templates considered harmful. Hes also spotted on the sets of DotNetRocks!

SOA Hot Topics Roundtable Podcast: Public Sector SOA

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Daniel Cazzulino looks at Live Mesh FeedSync protocol under the hood and Steve Clayton points to Live Mesh - First Look whitepaper

Vitorrio Bertocci lays out a coarse taxonomy for claim types

Sam Gentile with New and Notable 236, 237 and 238, Part 2 (Identity Management) and Part 3 (Claims Links) of SAML and Federated Identity, and a High Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture, the WCF and SOA Enabler

Nicholas Allen points to Updates to WCF Security Guidance, Messaging Additions in Orcas, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Serialization of private data members, and news that TIBCO Announces WCF Integration

Dominik Baier points to Some Resources for P2P and WCF
J.D. Meier : 6 New patterns & practices WCF Security How Tos

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition

Udi links to a video of Messaging and Architecture Discussion at ALT.NET, speaking of which has an interesting post about making Spec# a Priority

April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight - ScottGu’s Blog

Interoperability Happens - Channel 9 Interview with Yours Ted Neward

Immutability and tail recursion

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An InfoQ Interview with Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design Studio

Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC

Oren Eini defends the Rhino Mocks API Design, and posts an article on building a Domain Specific Language on InfoQ

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Robert Scoble with the early scoop Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh

Videos explaining various pieces of the mesh Ori Amiga: Programming the Mesh, FeedSync: Synchronizing the Mesh

Dino Chiesa on Varying Content-Type according to the URL in a WCF REST Service

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced, New and Notable 235 from Sam Gentile also a primer on SAML and Federated Identity

Nicholas Allen on WCF, WF, and BizTalk Sessions at TechEd, and Messaging Additions in Orcas

Books: We need more So What, Now What and What For? and less just What - Scott Hanselman On the type of books we need

Simon guest on Why Architects should care about Robots

An InfoQ Interview with Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design Studio

Kirk Allen Evans with a list of useful links on WCF, WCF, ADO.NET SyncServices, and ClickOnce and the second installment of Calling Web Services via AJAX

Community Convergence XLIII - Charlie Calvers Links on LINQ

Matthew Podwysocki with a Recap of Day 2 of the ALT.NET Open Spaces in Seattle

Another fun read from Jeff Atwood “Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC“

More fun? check out the video Marc Mercuri and Kyle Johns: Inside RoboChamps and Simon Guest on Why Architects should care about Robots

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Robert Scoble with the early scoop Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh

Videos explaining various pieces of the mesh Ori Amiga: Programming the Mesh, FeedSync: Synchronizing the Mesh,

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced, New and Notable 235 from Sam Gentile, also a primer on SAML and Federated Identity

Visual Cobol, Enterprise Processes, and SOA - Udi Dahan comments on Jim Webbers post “Anemic Service Model” expresses his views on service design and composition

Other interesting links
Bob Ippolito on Erlang
Dino Chiesa on Varying Content-Type according to the URL in a WCF REST Service

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Evangelizing the Identity Metasystem in culture-conscious fashion - Vitorio on being culture sensitive while evangelizing the Identity Metasystem

Cloud Computing and Identity - About the enterprise, cloud computing and how it relates to Identity

The PDF of Chapter 2 is on MSDN - Understanding Cardspaces

Cloud Platform Services: A Simple Taxonomy - Dave Chappell classifies cloud computing platforms

Scalability Article up on InfoQ - Udi Dahan with ideas on service design for scalability

Big Blue sMashes into Web 2.0 - On IBM’s launch of mashup server

Interview with Dan Diephouse - Via Stefan Tilkov, Interview on benefits of Atom/AtomPub

Weekly posts
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Fort Knox Business Objects ( yes / no ) - Karl Shifflett On data validation strategies

Alt.net conference summary from Oren Ini and Matthew Podwysocki

InfoCardSelector is now on Codeplex - ASP.net control for rendering the infocard selector

Singleton in .NET - Comments on what not to do!

Patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance - Updated Application Scenarios via J.D. Meier

Unity Community Contributions and Interception - Matthew Podwysocki’s on Unity framework also in a related post CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up

New and Notable 233, 232 -Sam Gentile links to interesting stuff

The PDF of Chapter 2 is on MSDN - Understanding Cardspaces

Request/Reply vs. Pub/Sub - Oren Ini examines the two messaging patterns

Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data into Context - Scott Hanselman

WCF, Smart Clients, and Deadlocks - Udi Dahan links to an article on UI and services

Oren Ini does an exercise in designing SOA systems, which causes a discussion on SOA Data Access

TechEd Israel Wrap Up - Udi Dahan on slides on

• Designing High Performance Persistent Domain Models
• Avoid a Failed SOA

Writing Smart Clients and Peer to Peer Programming

Kirk Allen Evans examines Calling WebServices via AJAX Part 1 and Creating RESTful Services Using WCF

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Hosting Identity - Nicholas Allen on “How can I run a service operation hosted in IIS using a specific identity?”

REST Podcast - Martin Fowler

Detailed RESTful Yaws Service - Steve Vinoski links to a detailed example of a RESTful web service implemented using Erlang

Patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance - Updated Application Scenarios via J.D. Meier

Subbu on Nouns and Resources - Stefan Tilkov links to an excellent “resource” on resource design

Martin Fowler on Schools of software development

What Integration Competency Centers Do and How to Fund Them - Loraine Lawson

GET Requests Updating the Database - via Stefan Tilkov on why it might be ok to modify the system even if its a get operation

Podcast on “Understanding Windows CardSpace” at SearchWinDevelopment.com- Via Vitorio

New and Notable 233, 232 -Sam Gentile links to interesting stuff

Request/Reply vs. Pub/Sub - Oren Ini examines the two messaging patterns

Scalability Article up on InfoQ - Udi Dahan with ideas on service design for scalability

Big Blue sMashes into Web 2.0 - On IBM’s launch of mashup server

Interview with Dan Diephouse - Via Stefan Tilkov, Interview on benefits of Atom/AtomPub

Information Oblivion - data only counts where it works - Steve Jones on trying to look at information independently from its business context in an SOA

TechEd Israel Wrap Up - Udi Dahan on slides on

• Designing High Performance Persistent Domain Models
• Avoid a Failed SOA

Interesting
Date & Time Parsing - Natural language parsing of dates in ruby

A conversation with Phil Libin about EverNote’s new memex - another great Jon Udell interview

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Architecture/Software development
Google jumps on Big Table of Web Services
Root Cause Analysis for Software Problems
Agile Architecture with Don Browning and Peter Provost
ALT.NET Thinking From The Outside
xUnit.net RC2 Released
Framework Design Studio Published

WCF
WCF and WF in the Framework Training Kit
New version of the Biztalk Services SDK available, now with support for managed cards
BizTalk Services “R11″ CTP Comes with a Surprise
WCF Security Guidance Project
Using FederatedIdentity.net managed cards with Biztalk Services SDK
Google Social Graph API via C#

Interesting
Community Convergence XLI & Community Convergence XLII - Useful posts on linq
Number of Types in the .NET Framework
AdventureWorks Security and webHttp endpoint behavior

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