WSDAC#25 - C# 4.0 features from the PDC

Dare Obasanjo -  C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0

Simon Brown - The role of the Software Architect in successful projects

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz -Architect Soft Skills - PDF version

Billy McCafferty - Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface - I find that fragile tests are often those that depend on data within a database, which can become out of synch with the assertions in the unit test, and those that depend on external services.  I use the term “services” loosely to define anything that represents an external resource; examples include web services (including RESTful services), file repositories, databases, and remote procedure calls.

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines Video from PDC2008 Talk Posted

Charlie Calvert - New Features in C# 4.0 Paper, plus Feedback and Samples

FransBouma - Designing a language is hard, and M won’t change that on Microsoft’s M modeling language

J.D. Meier

• Patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet
• Agile Architecture Method

NickMalik -The business value of elegant design

Philipe destoop -

• The Application Architecture Guidance 2.0 Project
• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices

The Progress Guys -Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise ArchitectureTim Barcz -Test First or Test Driven, Who Cares?

Todd Biske - Architecture Self Assessments - In my post on a CIO and CTO for the USA, at the very end I called out Jim Kobielus’ idea for an online presidential scorecard. As it turns out, I think this has merits in the world of EA and SOA, as well.

Todd Hoff -

• Is Eucalyptus ready to be your private cloud?
• Plenty of Fish Says Scaling for Free Doesn’t Pay

Matthew.Podwysocki - KaizenConf’08 Functional Programming Presentation VideoUdi Dahan - Webcast on Reliability, Availability, and Scalability

Videos from Microsoft PDCs

• “Oslo”: The Language
• IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job

WSOAC#37 - SOA Skillsets

SOA

Dare Obasanjo

• REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks
• Microsoft Announces Windows Azure
• Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider

Mike Kavis

• SOA skillsets: Part 1 - SOA Evangelist
• SOA skillsets: Part 2 - The Architects
• SOA Skillsets: Part 3 - The Developers

Udi Dahan -Additional Logic Required For Service Autonomy

Brenda Michelson

• CIO Magazine | SOA Consortium Case Study Contest - Special Recognition Winner Snapshot: Penn National
• CIO Magazine | SOA Consortium Case Study Contest - Special Recognition Winner Snapshot: Con-Way

Dave Linthicum

• My SOA predictions for 2009 — early
• Anne Thomas Manes and I Talk about SOA Failures
• Interesting SOA data from Forrester

Joe McKendrick

• Analyst: ‘SOA is working’
• Why ‘Event Driven Architecture’ is more than ‘Complex Event Processing’
• Situational awareness, thanks to SOA-driven dashboard
• Information technology prospects in a volatile economy
• Service Oriented Architecture on $10 a day

Microsoft Releases WCF REST Starter Kit

• Ron Jacobs - WCF REST Starter Kit
• Sam Gentile - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) REST Starter Kit is Live!
• steve maine - Announcing the WCF REST Starter Kit
• Aaron Skonnard - Microsoft takes REST to the next level: the WCF REST Starter Kit

Mike Taulty - Astoria Online/Offline

Sam Gentile - New and Notable 274

Identity

Vittorio Bertocci - Identity@PDC08: Roadmap session with Kim Cameron himself & yours truly

Dominick Baier - Geneva is the new Zermatt (and much more)

Governance

Bob McIlree - Book Review: SOA Governance by Todd Biske

Loraine Lawson - Is There a Right Time for SOA Governance?

Miko Matsumura - Getting fit for SOA with Governance Tools

Todd Biske - Important Questions for Successful Governance

Surekha Durvasula - Comparing Current Financial Crisis to SOA - Continued

Clould computing

Phillipe Destoop - Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: white papers

Rich Seeley - Forrester sees two compute clouds

Channel 9 - A Lap Around Windows Azure

Aaron Skonnard -Windows Azure: a new era for Microsoft developers

Mary Jo Foley - Amazon battens down the hatches before Microsoft’s cloud launch next week

WSDAC#24 - C# Futures and Oslo

Martin Fowler on  Oslo

Dare Obasanjo - Some Thoughts on OpenID vs. Facebook Connect

Simon Brown - Becoming more architecturally aware - part 2

Bart De Smet - C# 4.0 is here - Must-views and must-reads

EricLippert - The Future of C#, Part Two

J.D. Meier - New Release: patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1

Jeff Atwood -

• The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
• Stack Overflow OpenID Case Study

Jon Udell - Pumpkins with Oomph a microformat toolkit from

kcwalina -Framework Design Guidelines Videos

Matthew.Podwysocki - DC ALT.NET 10/2008 Recap - A Look at Kanban Software Development
High Scalability Blog -

• Three steps for turning a tier-based/Spring-application into dynamically scalable services (video)
• Server load balancing architectures, Part 1: Transport-level load balancing
• Server load balancing architectures, Part 2: Application-level load balancing
• Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

Phillipe Destoop - Queuing at the speed of light using open queuing protocol

tim-ewald - On the importance of learning a dynamic language now
Todd Hoff

• CTL - a flexible distributed control dispatching framework that enables you to break management processes into reusable control modules and execute them in distributed fashion over the network.
• Notify.me Architecture - Synchronicity Kills Notify.me is taking the innovative and risky strategy of using ejabberd, an XMPP based system, as their internal messaging and routing layer.

Channel 9 Videos
Lucian Wischik and Lisa Feigenbaum: What’s new in Visual Basic 10

Alvin Ashcraft -Design/Methodology/Microsoft PDC news

• Dew Drop - October 24, 2008
  Dew Drop - October 23, 2008
  Dew Drop - October 22, 2008

WSDAC#23 - Hadoop primer

Dare Obasanjo -

• Cloud Computing and Vendor Lock-In
• The Portable Contacts API: Killing the Password Anti-Pattern Once and For All

Simon Brown - Becoming more architecturally aware - part 1 [In my Mind the gap essay and Why Software Projects Fail presentation, I talk about how we as developers should be more architecturally aware if we are to bridge the gap between the code and the overall design.]

Ayende Rahien - Making the complex trivial: Rich Domain Querying

Bob McIlree - Watch Your Amount of Technical Debt

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition: Order Yours Now!

High Scalability Blog

• Challenges from large scale computing at Google
• Oracle opens Coherence Incubator
• Outside.in Scales Up with Engine Yard and moving from PHP to Ruby on Rails
• Alternatives to Google App Engine

Greg Duncan- Scrum for Team System 2.2 Released – More Reports, bug fixes, SQL Server 2008 and new Report Slide Show feature

Jeff Atwood - Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks

Karl Seguin- Simplicity is key to successful unit testing - Part 2
NickMalik - Non-Functional Requirements: the “All-Other” classification

pdestoop -

• Forrester: Architecting In The Zone [About Common Zone patterns, Zone architectures can be created in an unlimited number of ways based on an organization’s unique context and needs. Zones can be differentiated by technology, organization, application portfolios, or combinations of all three. ]
• Architecture Journal - Issue 17 – Distributed Computing

peterb_2008 -

• Hadoop - A Primer
• The Tokyo Institute of Technology Supercomputer Grid: Architecture and Performance Overview

Progress Software - Has availability outlived it’s usefullness for SLAs? [Probably the most common metric used with Service Level Agreement (SLA) for enterprise applications (and SOA infrastructure) is availability.  While my primary interest is in figuring out how to define effective SLAs for distributed, transactional business applications]

Sergio Pereira - Performing Code Katas

Todd Hoff - A High Performance Memory Database for Web Application Caches

Alvin Ashcraft -(Design/Methodology Links)

• Dew Drop - October 17, 2008
• Dew Drop - October 16, 2008

Channel9 - Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design

WMOC#24 - Windows in the cloud, be it Azure or AWS!

C# news
Bart de Smet - C# 4.0 is here - Must-views and must-reads

Charlie Calvert - LINQ Farm: Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0

Justin Etheredge - C# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 - dynamic keyword second look

Nicholas Allen -

• PDC 2008: Deep Dive Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET
• PDC 2008: The Future of C#

Eric Lippert - The Future of C#, Part Two

Azure/Cloud news

Clemens Vasters - Azure: Microsoft .NET Service Bus (nice explanation on Azure)

Mark Relph - Live From PDC – Windows Azure – Cloud Computing Announcement

Mary Jo Foley - Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed
Philippe Destoop -

• Big Day for Amazon EC2
• Windows in the cloud in there!

OSLO NewsChris Sells - The Oslo Developer Center: Letter from the Editors

Ron Jacobs -

• endpoint.tv - WCF and WF 4.0 First Look with Zoiner Tejada
• WF 4.0: A First Look at Microsoft PDC 2008

Sam Gentile -

• What is Oslo and Oslo Announcements at the PDC
• PDC Day 2 Coverage
• Oslo’s Coming Out Party at the PDC

ScottGu -October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

News/Videos/Links

David Hayden - Enterprise Library 4.1 Released (seems like this one sneaked in along with the other big releases)

DotNetInterop - Microsoft joins AMQP

Channel 9 PDC Videos -

• Don Box, Paul Vick and Chris Anderson: Introducing M
• Expert to Expert: Natural Language and Computational Linguistics
• Steve Marx: Windows Azure for Developers
• John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos: Inside .NET Services
• David Treadwell: Inside Live Services
• Lucian Wischik and Lisa Feigenbaum: What’s new in Visual Basic 10
• Astoria Design Walkthrough: Introducing $count as an URI query option
• Astoria Design Walkthrough: Thinking of a future with sync & offline
• A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
• Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service
• Windows Azure: Essential Cloud Storage Services
• Identity Roadmap for Software + Services
• Identity: “Geneva” Server and Framework Overview
• Under the Hood: Advances in the .NET Type System
• A Lap Around Windows Azure

Aaron Skonnard

• Screencast: Workflow (WF) Screencast Series
• Screencast: Creating your first WCF client
• Screencast: Configuring WCF service references

Chris Alcock - PDC Link Roundup (The Morning Brew #210)

WSOAC#36 - SOA and the economy

Stefan Tilkov - Link to Roy Fieldings article on why REST APIs Must be Hypertext-driven

ZapThink - Link to David Linthicums article on Best of times for SOA architects

Dave Linthicum

• My conversation with MomentumSI’s Jeff Schneider
• My presentation at the Mitre Service-Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference (audio and presentation)
• Dave speaks with John Musser from ProgrammableWeb.com
• Understanding the value of SOA in a ‘bad economy’

Jack van Hoof -On why Market does not understand EDA Clemens and all the others I listened to mention EDA and start talking about complex event processing; that is not architecture, that is technique.

Joe McKendrick

• Driving SOA through a lousy economy
• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
• Peeling Back the Microsoft Oslo ‘Onion’

Loraine Lawson

• Oslo Refined: New Approach to Modeling Is Key Feature
• Understanding Integration And How It Can Help with SOA
• Red Hat Upgrades SOA Platform to Add Integration Support

Surekha Durvasula - Canonical Models and Services This blog explores the canonical request models that might be used to alter the behavior of enterprise services using search services as an example.

Yogish Pai -Comparing current financial crisis to SOA

Rich Seeley

• IBM re-architects SOA market strategy and focuses more on the business benefits of SOA rather than the technology
• Gartner cautions on Oracle middleware status, Oracle Fusion middleware is currently based on a group of product suites for SOA and BPM that are “assemblies of convenience,” argue Gartner analysts.

Sam Gentile -REST Programming with .NET 3.5 SP1 Slides and Code Posted

Todd Biske

• Explores the relationship between Policies and SOA Governance. Policies are the rules that, if followed, should lead to the desired behavior for an organization. In the case of the current financial crisis, economic policies are ones that should lead to the desired behavior of the economy.
• SOA Governance Book: Now Available

WMOC#23 - ASP.net MVC Beta and Silverlight 2 released

Dominick Baier - Getting rid of the .svc Extension in IIS

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz -Eventing in WCF

BradA - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition: Order Yours Now!

Jon Udell - An Internet-to-TV feed with IronPython, XAML, and WPF

Loraine Lawson - Oslo Refined: New Approach to Modeling Is Key Feature

Mary Jo Foley - Microsoft’s online/offline sync platform (re)released to manufacturing

Philipe Destoop - Architecture Journal - Issue 17 – Distributed Computing

Matthew Podwysocki - Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads?

Scott Hanselman

• Microsoft Web Application Installer - Open Source Web Apps Delivered and Installed
• T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation - Best Kept Visual Studio Secret

ScottGu - October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS

ASP.net MVC beta Released

• ASP.NET MVC Beta Released - ScottGu
• ASP.NET MVC Beta released - Coolness Ensues - Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET MVC Beta Released! - Phil Haack

Silverlight 2 Released

• Silverlight 2 is out! - Scott Hanselman
  
• Eclipse tools for Silverlight and .NET - DotNetInterop

Channel 9 Videos

• Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions
• Joe Marini: Microsoft’s direction with Visual Studio Extensibility
• Bart De Smet -LINQ to Anything – Channel 9 interview and a few more thoughts

Props to other great link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof
Rhonda Tipton

WSDAC#22 - A Fresh Look At Google Gears over at Myspace

Niall Kennedy -Better Design Through Code

Stefan Tilkov -  Ioke is a strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype based object oriented language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 - October 1, 2008

Camp Sean - Interview with Joseph Hill - Mono

High Scalability Blog

• Second Life Architecture - The Grid
• Paper: Scaling Genome Sequencing - Complete Genomics Technology Overview
• Paper: Scalability Design Patterns
• The Pattern Bible for Distributed Computing
• Scalability Worst Practices
• Is MapReduce going mainstream?
• Scalability for Startups: How to Grow Up without Blowing Up

J.D. Meier -

• Cheat Sheet: patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance Posted to CodePlex
• App Arch How Tos Posted to CodePlex

JonUdell - Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s hybrid approach to semantic search

Mark Hendrickson - A Fresh Look At Google Gear, a look at MySpace’s implementation of Gears, which has little to do with offline functionality, is a perfect example. 

NickMalik

• Alignment - the missing Viewpoint
• Extending Professional Software Architecture

Yogish Pai - Organization Skills assessment and Reference Architecture

Nuno Teixeira@nospam.com -Extreme Transaction Processing, Low Latency and Performance

Matthew Podwysocki - Object Oriented F# - Creating Classes

Steve Jones - We’re all going on an architecture hunt

Steve McConnell - New White Papers

SE-Radio -   Episode 113: Building Platforms with Jeff McAffer

Udi Dahan - Unit Testing for Developers and Managers

Alvin Ashcraft (Design and methodology links)

• Dew Drop – September 30, 2008 (Evening Edition)
• Dew Drop - October 6, 2008
• Dew Drop – October 1, 2008

WSOAC#35 - SOA anti-patterns, Governance (a catchup post)

Mike Kavis

• SOA skillsets: Part 1 - SOA Evangelist
• SOA skillsets: Part 2 - The Architects

Stefan Tilkov - JAOO 2008: REST Patterns and Antipatterns

Zap Think - Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience

AWS Editor - Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows

Brenda Michelson - Synovus Financial’s SOA Success bigger than winning SVP initiative

Dan Foody - When do you need SOA governance?

Dave Laribee - .NET: Coming to a Cloud Near You

Dave Linthicum -

• Economic turmoil is changing businesses
• SOA Governance Technology Needs to Learn How to Share
• Doing SOA? Pay Attention to the Data
• What will we remember about SOA?
• Advocating the common data model — yet again

Ganesh Prasad - How SOFEA fits into a SOA Ecosystem

Jack van Hoof - EDA versus CEP (and SOA)

Jim Webber -

• When the facts change, I change my opinion
• How to GET a cup of coffee

Joe McKendrick -

• SOA, designed for turbulent times
• Analyst: SOA governance stymied by lack of standards
• Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
• Silver lining 2: now may be the best time of all for SOA startups
• SOA soon part of the ‘cloud’? Hold that thought
• Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience

JVaughan

• Look back at Oracle Open World 2008
• Microsoft’s muddled modeling: Getting the ducks in line

Kyle Gabhart -    Service Design - Intermediaries

Loraine Lawson -

• Writer Identifies Eight Characteristics for SOA Success
• How the Best-in-Class Manage SOA Governance
• Integration Plays Key Role in Winning SOA Deployment … Again
• Sifting Through the Myriad Integration Players
• SOA Gone Wrong

Nick Malik - Understanding Governance as Decision Rights

Yogish Pai - SOA Consortium announces SOA Case Study Winners

Rich Seeley - CEP opportunity in Wall Street bust?

Sam Gentile

• New and Notable 273
• Dublin Announced - Next Gen Windows Server and WCF/WF 4.0

Steve Jones

• DOA - antipattern
• My way or the highway - anti-pattern
• Boiling the SOAcean - anti-pattern
• Compromising for failure - anti-pattern
• Pink Floyd meets Frank Sinatra - anti-pattern

Todd Biske

• More on Decision Rights
• SOA Governance and Decision Rights
• Governance is not Optional

Todd Hoff - Joyent - Cloud Computing Built on Accelerators

WMOC#22 - More on OSLO and Dublin

Channel 9 - Astoria Design Walkthrough: Friendly Feeds Part 1
AWS Editor - Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows
EricLippert - Preventing third-party derivation, part two
Mary Jo Foley

• Microsoft PDC: Will the real cloud platform please stand up?
• Windows Strata = Microsoft’s layered cloud OS

Mike Taulty - More on .NET 4.0 along with some “Oslo” and a little “Dublin”
Nicholas Allen - .NET 4.0 and Dublin
Scott Hanselman - Plug-In Hybrids: ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Side By Side

Chris Alcock - More OSLO news

Props to other great link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof
Rhonda Tipton