Sam Gentile's Blog

Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :)

ALT.NET/Design Patterns

• Great collection of Ayende's talks. Download the decks, they are great stuff.

SOA/ESB/Security

• Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices WCF Security Practices at a Glance Now Available
• Weekly SOA crumbs #16: Links on Service orientation, cloud computing and ESB’s

Software Development

• The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in Javascript
• TypeConverters: There's not enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the world
• I have been using this tool a bit. EntitySpaces 2008 Alpha Released. This Alpha release supports only C# class generation from within CodeSmith, and only supports Microsoft SqlServer. A subsequent beta release will support CodeSmith, MyGeneration, C#/VB.NET classes, and all of our providers. The Alpha release comes with both .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 runtimes.