Sam Gentile's Blog

Thank God for coffee....

Astoria/Orcas/Data Services

• The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog]

SOA

• Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable
• Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of Scalability, Idempotence, and Whatnot

C#/VB/Visual Studio

• My friend Rob Caron announces a much needed overhaul of the  Visual Basic and Visual C# developer centers. From a quick look, it looks a lot better to me

WPF/Avalon/Blend/Silverlight/UI

• The Microsoft Expression blog announces the Expression Blend 2 Sept Preview. Visit the Expression Blend 2 September Preview page for viewing these, and to download and install the latest build.
• Jason Zander presented the keynote on Silverlight at VSLive NYC and has the slides plus supporting material
• My buddy Adam Nathan is at it again with Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed!

Microsoft/Community

• Phil Haack, in his usual funny style, had me going on what happened to his MVP, only to realize he is joining Microsoft! This is a huge win for ScottGu and the ASP.NET team as Phil is one of the best and brightest. Congrats!!

Dev Tools/Rubty/Rails/LINQ

• New version, 1.4.0, of NCoverExplorer
• CodeGear Releases Ruby/Rails IDE with Intelligent Completion of Dynamic Methods
• My pal, Steve Eichert, sees some progress in LINQ coming to Ruby

Software Design/DDD

• Paul has a great Guide to Start with Domain-Driven Design

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: September 19, 2007

[tags: SOA, WCF, SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, Connected Systems, CSD, C#, VB, Silverlight, Astoria, NCoverExplorer, Ruby, LINQ, REST]