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

Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are plenty of Starbucks but also my fave Pete's!! Great coffee, great sushi, what more could a man want?

IIS7/Windows Server 2008/ASP.NET/AJAX/Silverlight/Windows Vista

• ScottGu announced the release of IIS7! He points to new features but also talks about the extensibility model and the cool new extensions available today. I am very excited about IIS7, particuarly a usage model that I see this week - the need to host WCF via TCP or Named Pipes but in IIS (WCF).
• He also has another one of his great roundup posts on topics like ASP.NET and AJAX, Silverlight, etc
• The AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 has been updated.
• Of course, Windows Server 2008 RC is out as well as Vista SP1 (for select testers). I am running Vista SP1 and it is fine but then again, I have had zero problems with it on my work laptop which is a Dell Latitude D830 with an Intel Core2 Duo and 2GB and 4GB of RAM. I use it all day long for VS2008 development, lots of presentations, SQL Server, (i.e. lots of heavy work)  etc and Vista works fine for me. SP1 does solve the network copy/move issue though.
• Along with Win2K8, there is a new Windows SDK that supports .NET Framework 3.5

SOA

• Arnon says the same thing: SOA is Definitely *Not* About the Technology
• In a new InfoQ interview, recorded at QCon London, Steve Jones head of SOA for Global Outsourcing at Cap Gemini, explains the ideas behind his concept of a "business service architecture", first outlined in his book  "Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies".  [via InfoQ]

WCF

• WCF: Passing Collections Through Boundaries: Why and How

Software Architecture/Enterprise Architecture

• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #8 - September 27, 2007