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

Acropolis

• David Hill's blog is here and the Team Blog is here
• One nice post on the Team Blog is Extending the Notepad Sample with a Web Browser View 
• Secret Themes in Acropolis
• Three New Acropolis Videos

WCF/SOA/WF/Orcas

• Jesus Rodriguez on Orcas Durable Services
• Speaking of WCF, Steve details a really strange finding for both of us: that one way Indigo messages can block. I got the Indigo tracing turned on and it confirmed the results: closing the client proxy blocks until the one way message completes. Why? This seems to defeat the purpose of One Way Messages
• Harry rounds up the REST responses

MAC OS/X

• OK, so two of my good friends dump Parallels for latest beta of VMWare Fusion. Time to look this weekend!

Entity Framework

• Somehow, I forgot to blog Jeff's post about the good news: Entity Framework to Get Persistence Ignorance (PI)

Blogging

• Good advice from Mr Hanselman on keeping your blog from sucking especially since I have violated some of the principles :)

Silverlight/ASP.NET/Expression/Win2K8 Server

• Brad Abrams covers all of the above in one post