Project Kobe community feedback

A project that we recently worked on in my team is Kobe , a Web 2.0 service development resource kit. The goal of the resource kit was to provide a collection of resources in the form of presentations, white papers, and a working sample application to enable business and technology decision makers to develop a good foundational understanding of Web 2.0 services, a conceptual architecture of a Web 2.0 service, challenges to think through when embarking on a new Web 2.0 service development project, and Microsoft platform implementation assets that are available and can be applied to materialize Web 2.0 services. The intended value of the resource kit is in the collateral in the form of the included presentations and white papers that delve into these topics. Also included in the kit was a sample application that was implemented to illustrate the materialization of the concepts discussed in the presentations and the white papers within the context of a sample scenario.

Lately we have been received some very good feedback from the developer community on the completeness of the sample application's code implementation. I am writing this post to acknowledge the feedback, and to communicate that we are looking into addressing some of the key issues comunicated and will publish an updated version of the sample application's code shortly.

While we are eager and happy to do this, we would also like re-clarify the original intent of the sample application included in the Kobe kit. The sample app is not a "reference application" in the context of code completeness. A "sample app" and a "reference app" are quite different in the context of code completeness, and we do not claim Kobe to be a reference app in this context. The Kobe sample app is a "sample" intended to illustrate the Web 2.0 service architectural concepts discussed in the included presentations and white papers, in a tangible way and in as light weight a manner as possible. It was not intended to be production ready in the context of code completeness, and hence positioned as a sample app when we released the kit. That being said and based on the feedback we have received, we are very eager to address the issues that have been communicated to us since and ensure that we can deliver an updated and a best possible sample app in the refresh release.

Many thanks to all those who have shared their feedback on Kobe so far! We will review all sumitted feedback and take action to address items within the context of the intended scope & goals of the Kobe project. Stay tuned for a posting announcing the availability of the updated version sample app.

Regards,

Masashi & Karthik