Sam Gentile's Blog

On May 19, 2003, I said "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind. While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts." I still believe that today but I have not been so great about "daily" or I would have been over 500, but here I am over 3 years later with number 100!

While I am still in Mike emulation mode, I would like to do something like he did for the "Tell a Friend" and contest. I don't want to blatantly copy his contest (maybe I do!) but I want to double the readership of this blogs. If you get anything out of these posts and the blog, I'd love if you told someone else to subscribe. In the meantime, I'd love to hear from you on this blog on what you think might increase readership as well as your experience.

So we have today:

• My co-worker and pair programmer today Steve questions Microsoft’s strategy on releasing two OR/M solutions. Andres (and Frans on the comments) also question this. I agree that this is just going to confuse the developer totally when they need to use the technology. Ayende agrees that this is madness. I’d rather see a single OR/M solution based on LINQ that is extensible.
• Again, Andres, “I went to TechEd Keynote today and I almost got asleep. Then Chloe appeared and it was the only excuse I had to not to leave before it finished”
• Have you checked out http://www.seewindowsvista.com/?  It is a very cool way to see some amazing things that developers are doing with Vista and .NET Framework 3.0. [via Brad]
• The Indigo group has released the "Windows Communication Foundation RSS Toolkit" on the new community site. This toolkit, which comes with complete source code, illustrates how to expose ATOM and RSS feeds through WCF endpoints
• SCBAT has been upgraded to a new, soon to be released version of GAT and GAX
• Craig announces msdnman
• Microsoft is preparing a third IE 7 beta, to be released sometime in August.
• The Ruby on Rails site has a new page that lists all RON books, both beta and shipping.
• Rails core member, 37signaler and Prototype author Sam Stephenson has put up a blog over at sam.conio.net. [via Riding the Rails].
• Over a year ago, Korby Parnell showed my idea on his computer over ice cream in Redmond that we thought would never see the light of the day. Now, it’s made it out (mostly) in the MSDN Wiki, which was formerly announced by Soma here. This is huge; it gets the community involved and solves the less than ideal state of MSDN documentation.
• An early prerelease version of Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available for download as a disc image (VSDATAD1.img). [via Rob]
• Juval Lowy (of IDesign) has added a free code library for WCF development, which includes demos covering WCF essentials, contract design, data contracts, operations and calls, instance management, faults, transactions, concurrency management, queued calls and security. [via Robert]