Over on the Team Architect blog , Duncan Pocklington discusses the way cool new path editor UI in Orcas DSL Tools. Having spent a few more days demoing DSL Tools and typing paths on a keyboard I'm not used to then I'm reminded how badly we needed this...

As Harry reports , I had a fun discussion with Peter Provost and him on the subject of combining TDD and Modeling. I was feeling pretty smug, thinking I'd just coined the term, and planning how to spend my enormous book advance from such a cool new buzzword...

Ken Levy , the VSX community PM managed to catch me with his rinky-dinky video camera and we had a chat about DSL Tools in the Visual Studio SDK. http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2007/06/08/Gareth-Jones-talks-about-DSL-Tools-at-TechEd07.aspx Hmmm...

Just woken up after a great first day at Tech-Ed. Excellent to see full houses and folks crammed in around the floor for the chalk talks on both Software Factories and Visual Studio Extensibility. Also fantastic to finally get my hands on a paper copy...

Lots of fun stuff this week. As announced over on the VSX blog , there's a new CTP of the Visual Studio SDK for Orcas. On the DSL front, this has a step forward in our authoring experience, with a new visual editor for the path syntax that you told us...