Sam Gentile's Blog

ALT.NET

• Derek has Dimecast #83 - Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting Started w/ Your First Mappings

Software Architecture

• The Open Group have announced the release of TOGAF 9.0. TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) has been in development since the mid 90's and is "a standard for assisting in the acceptance, production, use, and maintenance of architectures".
• Nick takes a first look at TOGAF 9.0

All Things CSD (Oslo, WCF, Dublin, etc)

• Shawn is doing a three-part series for the Oslo DevCenter on building Domain Specific Languages with MGrammar. In this first part, he states the case for Domain Specific Languages.
• Tomas is implementing custom WCF Transport Channels and has a post IRequestChannel and One-Way Contracts

ASP.NET MVC

• Shawn is also using MVC to build his latest project. in the second part of the series, he talks about how he implemented MVC

Windows 7

• Brandon takes a closer look at the Windows 7 SKUs