New and Notable 217

Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would like to post a reply on the worth of the series for you personally, it certainly wouldn't hurt :)

BizTalk/BizTalk Server

• Via Marjan, BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3 is now ready.  You can pull your copy down from: BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3#  
• Paul Petrov has an interesting post on using Generics for a Message Broker pattern

WCF Orcas

• Dynamic Relay Endpoints in a Duplex Workflow Service
• Custom Password Validation for HTTP (very timely for something I am doing)
• A Follow-Up on PIAB+WCF Integration
• Steve Maines provides a very valuable service in collecting all the WCF Web Programming Model Documentation in one place

IT

• Cautious Tech Spending in 2008? Lots of people are saying so

SOA

• Following the above, ZapThink thinks that an economic downturn and cautious tech spending are good news for SOA. I think so too. They echo the Agility argument. If there is less spending, consolidation of existing IT assets, all those are reason for creating a more Agile and efficient IT to support a business that responds quicker than the competitors.
• Forrester's John Rymer and Mike Gilpin have written an extensive analysis of the overlaps and of which products are likely to
prevail in the Oracle buyout of BEA
• Specialized Message Patterns for SOA

Other link blogs (via Jason)

Jason Haley - Interesting Finds, January 21, 2008
Dave Burke - Bits for January 19, 2008
Alvin Ashcraft - Daily Bits - January 20, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for January 19, 2008