Sam Gentile's Blog

Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog, I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly on the schedule today is to get my head fully shaved not partial (yes all 3 hairs). Some of the following may be listed without commentary until later today.

Architecture/SOA

• Nick Malik continues his excellent Architecture posts with Testing in an SOA World. I am interested in this topic, because being the "beacons of Agile" we're upwards of 1700 unit tests but what about testing at the service level?
• Also see his Improper use and the SOA Free Market

Avalon/WPF

• I have had some great conversation with Chris Anderson via being around Don that I like to think of him as a friend. One of the most infamous ones was way back during WS-Sushi, where I confronted poor Chris and demanded a use case for Avalon. Not only did he not flinch, he provided in one or two sentences a concise explanation of why should care. And it was the deciding force. Anyhow,I am thrilled that his long-awaited book on WPF is out! A must have!

CLR/BCL

• BCL Refresher: System.Diagnostics.Debug class 

Ok, more later....

I'm rocking out to Back In The Saddle by Aerosmith from the album A Little South Of Sanity (Parental Advisory)