Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

Data/ADO.NET Orcas

• Two from the ADO.NET team: Entity Client and Nulls - LINQ to DataSets Part 3

Software Architecture/SOA/CAB

• Udi answers, Can or should SOA be implemented without Web Services?
• David Chappell on The Three Faces of SOA
• Eric Newcomer: WS-* vs. REST is not the question
• Another architect with a chronicle of How CAN and TDD helps doing better designs

WCF/CardSpace

• Richard Turner gives an insightful report on RSA2007 especially on the "demo showed Wachovia's website running on Corillian's online banking platform using Arcot Systems' security engine to generate managed cards and process token requests." Corrillian and Wachovia's work will be important for all of this in this sector as more and more backs embrace CardSpace and Identity management. We are seeing a lot of movement in this area.
• Jorgen provides some great links on Interoperability with WCF. This is an area that I am becoming more involved with Java systems communicating with our WCF Services.
• Dr. Nick continues with More Poison Message Handling
• Tomas on Writing a WCF Transport Channel - Part 1

Agile Architecture

• Uncertain Planning
• Nick talks about The minimum amount of architecture needed for Test Driven Design.

.NET Framework 3/WF

• .NET Framework 3.0 training kit for WF, WCF and CardSpace [via Mike]
• .NET 3.0 Middleware Technologies Day: Third Incarnation 
• David Chappell: Why Workflow Matters
• WF, WCF and CardSpace training materials posted

I'm listening to Street Life by Roxy Music on the album Stranded (Remastered)