Sam Gentile's Blog

SOA

• Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model

Microsoft

• My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available for free!

CLR

• Jason keeps on rocking in the free world with Simple Reflector AddIn: Count Box Instructions. It's official, he's done taken the CLR Crown from me :)

WCF

• Dr. Nick on a very important but difficult area of WCF: Custom Transport Retry Logic

MAC OS/X/Vista

• It looks like Leopard has been a disaster from everyone you talk to other than the Mac fanboys (who try top spin anything). Omar points out that you go from Vista to OS/X to whatever and the problems always remain the same. He has his once in a decade link to Dave Winer here that I will repeat. This is the worst OS/X release, it's rushed, it's buggy, it's causing blue screens BSODs (oops, sorry "kernel panics"), application compatibility problems, new security dialogs, pundits warning users to postpone upgrades, users canning the OS entirely. For the record, I did manage to upgrade my Intel Dual Core iMac to Leopard but I didn't get the buzz I felt after Tiger and other releases. Its perhaps the least innovative version of OS/X yet. For once, the tables are turned and the photocopies were reversed: it's a pale immitation of Vista. If people thiink icons flying up in a fan is innovation, I feel sorry. For the record again, I have Vista on three machines including my main Dell work laptop that gets slammed with tons of beta software, BVizTalk, VS2008 and I have zero problems.
• Here is How to Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads

PowerShell

• Yay!! The CTP of PowerShell V2 is out! Here are the changes