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

Co-Workers

• Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming
• Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being "Licensed to WSDL" :)

Computer Languages/Functional Languages/IronRuby

• My former alma mata, CodeBetter.com, seems to be almost remaking itself as a big part of the emerging ALT and Functional Languages on the CLR which is good. Great articles. Here are but some of them:
  • F# and Unit Testing - Some New Developments
  • Dynamic Languages vs Static Verification
  • What Is the Future of C# Anyways?
• Speaking of "Alt" languages, my good friend Steve Eichert has been making some great strides with IronRuby
  • Making a case for IronRuby at Philly Code Camp
  • Creating cross platform GUI's with IronRuby

Web Services Security/WCF/SOA

• J.D. Meier of the immensely useful patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance project, has compiled a mondo listing of WCF Security Resources
• Udi reminds us to keep the context of time in mind as you analyze the data your services use and are responsible for, as a way of avoiding falling down the Data Services rabbit hole. I, wholeheartedly agree.
• He also has 2 great slide decks from his Tech Ed Israeli talks including Avoid a Failed SOA

Silverlight

• 50 New Silverlight Screencasts - Short and Snappy

Web 2.0

• Dare has Some Thoughts on Twitter's Availability Problems

CLR

• Download Pex 0.5 NOW!
• Pex Docs
• .NET Framework Client Profile is reason enough to go to .NET 3.5 SP1 IMHO

BizTalk

• My good friend Tomas on Retrying Web Service Calls in BizTalk