…thoughts on software development

After a truly intense week filled with cool tech, good company and too much chocolate covered donuts I am going for the hands-on lab to put some stuff to work. Today will also the winner of the Iron Architect contest be announced …looking forward to see the solutions people have come up with.

This week didn’t become the week of many posts I thought it would be. Well, the posts are in my head, I just need some time to sort ‘em all and make some decent blogs out of it. So stay tuned, TechEd may be over soon but the stuff covered here this week is here to stay.

…man, that was cheesy.

Version 2 have been out for a while and now the first service pack is out. One key enhancment is the Remote Performance Monitor tool which enable us to view live perf counters on your device. Counters will also be added in PerfMon …there is also a .stat file viewer in there.

More on that later, blogging on a PSP is not an ergonomic experience

Wow, first day at pre-conference started off with a full immersion into the four major additions in .NET 3.0: Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, Presentation Foundation and CardSpace. Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown and Ian Griffiths pulled it off nicely and really managed to give a good insight into these technologies in just about 5 hours.

A lot of notes and a headfull of thoughts later I just wanted to mention that the WCF and WF teams are now comming together to work on the next set of features code-named Silver. We will probably see stuff that people are plumbing themselves today, like tunneling WCF messages in and out of workflows.

Well, gotta go and digest some info. Meanwhile, I recommend visiting the Identity blog for some Internet identity problem-solving discussions.