Sam Gentile's Blog

Visual Studio

• Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's  Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now.
• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend

BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA

• My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on MSDN this Friday
• I listened in to Jon Flanders Workflow Services one today which was excellent
• The new Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide has been released to the web. This document provides guidance & best practices on optimizing BizTalk Server performance for demanding production environments.
• Dr Nick has a post on Configuring SSL Host Headers on IIS. Host Headers in IIS are a way to associate multiple names with a single address.
• I have spent much of the past year explaining EDA and its relationship to SOA in my talks. My current talk is all about this. IBM SOA Guru Bobby Woolf puts it this way, "So, EDA and SOA: SOA determines what gets done, EDA is one way to determine when it gets done. Nice simple explanation."