So we're one week out on TechEd. This time next week, the final prep will be done and we'll be ready to let this thing fly. Some of the core team goes down this week, though as a track owner, I'm not really needed on site until Sunday. What a difference...

The May CTP of the DSL Toolkit is finally here, as per Jochen's blog . The big new feature is compatibility with VS05 Beta 2, but according to Jochen this CTP also includes: New features for the model explorer and property browser in the generated...

Shortly after joining the Architecture Strategy Team, we worked with MSDN to re-launch the .NET Architecture Center. While we've had good success with that site, we realized after running it for several months that we needed a new approach in order to...

Coming in June, hot on the heels of TechEd is the Architecture Webcast Series . This is a series of four webcasts in June and July of architectural topics such as service orientation and reusable frameworks. In addition to the valuable content, you'll...

I'm not sounding off in the pub, so I guess I'll blog the workshop that Alan and Steven Kelly from MetaCase are doing at XP2005 . It's called "Agile Development with Domain Specific Languages" and here's the abstract: This workshop will investigate...

I'm still digging out my inbox after my two week vacation. I'm down to 134 items from nearly 400 this morning. I was at 16 before I left. If it gets this bad in two weeks, what's going to happen when I take my four week paternity leave? While I'm getting...

Taking a momentary break from new dad duties to point out that the Guidance Automation Toolkit workbench is now live. In addition to the bits (both the toolkit and the extensions are available seperately) there's also an introductory article . Plus there...

I try to spend more time writing original content for this site and less time simply pointing at other people's stuff. However, you'll notice the lack of updates around here lately. Things are busy at home - my wife and I are expecting our second child...