Sam Gentile's Blog

So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post

SOA

• Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models
• Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions
• Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's "What is SOA?". 
• Bobby Woolf has a knack for saying things I agree with, "SOA helps development and operations get aligned. I've talked about how SOA can help achieve business/IT alignment. In fact, that's one of SOA's major selling points, that SOA can be applied to both the business and the IT department, making both composed of reusable services so that the IT systems look like the business. One of my colleagues, Jorge Diaz, mentions this advantage as well: SOA helps align the development team with the operations team."
• David S. Linthicum, Managing Partner, ZapThink, on Five Things All SOA Vendors Should Know

Software Architecture/Enterprise Architecture

• The Adding Simplicity blog comments on  Gartner's Top 10 Technologies for 2008.
• Morning Coffee 117
• Morning Coffee 118

Software Development

• Start Flying With ReSharper (and windows in general) - Use the Alt-Key
• PowerShell++
• xUnit Changes for Beta 2

BizTalk

• The BizTalk Adapter Pack team now has a blog [via Marjan]
• Marjan also points to three Queuing Technology blogs, Motley Queüe , John Breakwell and Muhammed Ism
• Again, Marjan, CNN Money has published an interesting article on how KAS bank is using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT to provide institutional investors with SWIFT connectivity.  Short and interesting article to read for those interested in the financial sector and connectivity applications consolidation.

Windows Workflow

•  Deadlocking / Aborting Workflows with Tracking and Persistence

Community

• My good friend Jason Haley let me know about Seattle Code Camp v3.0 will be held at DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond on the weekend of November 17th and 18th

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2007