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 ...