New and Notable 102

Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era.

WCF/SOA

• Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings

CLR

• My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most excellent series on Obfuscation, this time on String Encryption. However, the word on the street is that a certain retired Godfather may be coming back and regaining his territories in points further south -)

Agile

• I am really excited about Jim Shore's new book on Extreme Programming. I am excited about two things in TAAD; one, mainstream practical and two, pure XP and not diluted Agile
• He has posted the first section on Pair Programming online for review
• Espresso Fueled Development comments on how he Talks About Agile

Visual Studio/Team System

• I am thrilled to see Sara Ford post the Power Toys for Visual Studio FY07 Goals and the use of SCRUM for fast releases. I really loved the VS2003 toys but they are so like three years ago-) and having used solely Whidbey the past 1.5 - 2 years, I would love to see VS2005 toys
• Rob Caron reports that, "Michael Ruminer launched a project on CodePlex to develop a version control tree browser for Team Foundation Version Control (TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser). See more on his blog.
• Korby (BTW, thanks for your phone call but I didn't make it to TechEd!), speaks of Martin Woodward of Teamprise, who explains how to set up CI for CodePlex projects using CruiseControl.NET.