I originally started and have always maintained DevHawk as my primary blog. However, back in the spring of 2004 , I started cross posting to this MSDN blog due since I was being featured on the MSDN Architecture Center and I needed the blog up 24x7. ...

I'm settling in to my new job. One way to tell, read Dale Churchward's blog . Dale's a teammate of mine. He only joined Microsoft a few months ago. Apparently, he used to blog at his old job, but either way we've now doubled the number of bloggers on...

I'm in sunny San Diego for the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit . I'm presenting a sponsor session and case study tomorrow (MSFT is a platinum sponsor for the event) but I came in yesterday so I could attend a few sessions, meet a few customers...

I'm not sure what a "Preliminary Beta" is but QIT has released a one for their Ruby.NET compiler . They expect to achieve "full semantic compatibility" (can you tell this is an acidemic project?) by the end of the year. Thanks to David Ing for the link...

It's not the biggest job change news this week (or the day ), but after three years on Architecture Strategy and six years total as an evangelist, I'm moving on to a new role. After six years, I decided it was time for me to put my money where my mouth...

Congrats to the team for their latest version of the DSL Toolkit , integrated into the June CTP of the VS SDK . According to the published product plans of the VS SDK, they're suppoesd to ship their next release - including the final DSL toolkit - next...

I'm doing some experiments with Amazon's S3 Service. Very cool service, I might add. Anyway, the sample C# REST code basically wraps the network requests with a single connection class that has individual methods for each type of service interaction ...

Ron just posted his latest ARCast featuring yours truly talking about Enterprise 2.0 . Some of the same stuff I blogged about last month , but in a conversational style. Check it out.

For any readers in LA, I'm keynoting the MS Architect Connections conference in LA next week. They have a few spots still open, so if you're interested you can sign up here .

For a change, I'm not involved with TechEd at ALL this year. It's all Simon and Marty. Looks like they've got some cool stuff cooking, particularly the Iron Architect contest . Almost makes me wish I was going this year.

I saw reference to ChucK on Prompt Criticality , a Second Life Blog. I wanted to blog it for my own reference if for no other reason. ChucK is "a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance" that "presents a new...

I wrote of my meeting w/ Neal Ford a few weeks ago. Today he has a long post on what he calls Eating Sacred Hamburger that goes into more detail of some of the things we discussed: Software development cults tend to create sacred cows: habits and...

When I wrote about the Dual Schema problem a few weeks ago, I specifically wrote that the Rails model is backwards because it derives the in-memory schema from the database schema. While I still believe that, Rails' ActiveRecord::Migration library does...

In the past few weeks, there’s been a major uptick in discussion about Web 2.0 / Enterprise convergence. Andrew McAfee has a new article on what he calls Enterprise 2.0. Dion’s got an entire blog on the subject, though he thinks it should be called Enterprise...

Even if you don't care a lick about Ruby , you should read Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby . It is by far the most facinating (and freaky) technical book I've ever read.

I spent a couple of hours chatting with Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks yesterday. Ted Neward had virtually introduced us a few months ago and he was in town for MTS , so he arranged a meeting. I had asked Ted to introduce me to some dynamic language folks...

I never really missed Web Application Project support in VS05 until I realized what I could do with it. I've been experimenting with LINQ and wanted to be able to use it in a web application I'm prototyping. Under the file system model, there's no easy...

Having written about Ruby in the scope of the Compiler Dev Lab and the Dual Schema Problem , I was interested to come across the Ruby.NET project from Queensland University of Technology . From the Ruby.NET home page: Our goal is to create a compiler...

A few months ago, Ted Neward wrote a great article about the history of the Object Relational Impedance Mismatch problem and how LINQ is addressing it in a new way. Basically, LINQ is introducing new language abstractions and complementary libraries to...

Big news from the Game Developers Conference this week is the XNA Framework. From the press release : The XNA Framework contains a custom implementation of the Microsoft® .NET Framework and new game-development-specific libraries designed to help...

I am sick and tired of the warning dialog box for the C# 3.0 preview . Every time you launch VS it pops up a dialog reading "This is an unsupported version of Microsoft Visual C# 3.0. As such many features may not work as expected." You know, this isn...

I mentioned on the first day of the Compiler Dev Lab that Brian Beckman is a hoot. He's also wicked smart. He posted about his demo from Monday where he demonstrates building indexes for use in LINQ queries. In his words: In the terminology of relational...

Day Two of the Compiler Dev Lab was all about scripting. Iron Python was the primary focus of the day, but they also had Phalanger (Managed PHP ) and Monad folks there as well. I hadn't realized just how performant these dynamic languages are on...

Even though I haven't finished my ETech postings, I'm already onto another event. This week, thanks to an invite from Michael Lehman , I'm sitting in on a Compiler Lab discussing implementing other languages for CLR. The first day was about LINQ . Much...

After my marathon blogging session last night and taking notes all day, I'm a bit burnt out on writing. But here are a few quick thoughts. More details to follow. I'm digging the Live.com home page and the integrated Live Search. Since I'm on a...