Yet another European Microsoft Regional Director is blogging: Andreas Eide from Norway. Andreas runs one of the most active .NET user-groups in Europe (the Norwegian .NET User Group), is co-author of a couple of books, a fabulous person to listen to, talk to, work with and work for (according to own experience and all that I’ve heard on my tours through Norway), and …. find out yourself: RSS, Radio, Blog.
I installed Greg’s “News Gator” RSS aggregation plug-in for Outlook yesterday for the first time and it absolutely rocks. If you use Outlook, read weblogs and still haven’t heard about this tool, yet: go get it.
Fujitsu, along with Sun, NEC, Oracle and Sonic Software published a proposal for reliable messaging with SOAP. I assume this has been reported all over blogland already, but I am a bit "connection challenged" right now since I've been on the road, so I couldn't really do much blog reading. I've had time to look at this spec offline, though, and I think it is indeed interesting -- because it is so familiar.
Comparing WS-Reliability to...
I still can’t believe that I stayed up until 2am to see the Giants throw away their game like that in the 4Q.
A modular application without well-defined extensibility points is not modular.