New and Notable 116

Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable."

Architecture/CAB/Smart Client

• Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources
• You can also see my mini-tutorial combined with an Agile sense with CAB Smart Clients in an Agile World Part 1, and Part 2
• Microsoft Software Factory Architect Jack Greenfield on Ad-Hoc and Systematic Reuse where he differentiates the two and points out that the "in the software factories book, we explain that systematic reuse is effective, but ad hoc reuse is not."

Indigo/WCF/SOA/BPM/BPEL/Workflow

• More goodness from Tomas with IServiceBehavior, IDispatchMessageInspector, and Endpoints
• A pair from the master, David Chappell, with Why BEPL is Like Bytecode, and Standardizing the Right Thing: BPMN or BPEL?
• Avoiding OneWay Deadlocks from Nicholas Allen

Data/SQL Server

• CTP6 of Data Dude (i.e. VSTS for Database Pros) is out. Cameron has the scoop on the new features.

Other/Tools

• IE7 has made it out of beta and is released
• The very useful CodeSmith is out in a public Beta 4.2

Agile

• Martin Fowler calls it the ImprovementRavine Pattern: "If you care about what you do, you care about getting better at it. This involves reflecting about how you do things, and trying out new techniques to see if they make you better. Even if other people recommend new techniques, the only way you know if they work for you is by trying them out yourself and seeing if they improve your performance.The trouble is that improvement, particularly with new techniques isn't linear. Often there is a ravine that opens up when you try a new strategy."
• Seventeen Tips for Iteration Planning [from Agile Advice]
• The latest Carnival of the Agilists is out and my teammate Steve Eichert made it for this post in which we stopped obessing on Task Cards