Wow, Scott Hanselman recommends this blog with the N&N posts, and then I don't post one since July 21st. As usual, I am busy beyond belief but the main reason is that I have been trying to focus on writing original content-full posts. I do have some stuff saved up here in no particular order.

SOA/Indigo/WCF

1. Microsoft seems to be doing the right thing with all their WS-* specs and such with the Open Specification Promise. I would agree with Christian that this is what I would want to see.
2. Mike Taulty lists the rich Windows Communication Foundation Videos available on the net3fx site.
3. Pablo has published his STS Implementation for WCF. As I said when I recommended his previous post, "Implementing a Secure token service with WCF"), we implemented something pretty similar.
4. Drew Marsh on Providing Custom Context to your WCF Service Operations
5. Udi Dahan published an influential article in the latest Architecture Journal that certainly grabbed my attention and made me think pretty long and hard about things. The follow-up post continues the discussion on Autonomous Services but I think there is still a lot for all of us to think about here

The following needs and will be refactored into a separate post

1. more later ....  after Steve & I solve some thorny WCF issues; Ponder this: many people mention ICommunicationState and CommunicationState in detail but not what to do with a Faulted State. Moreoever, its not even mentioned in the two existing Indigo books. I wish authors in the Microsoft world would focus more on real-world (that includes SHOWING THE EXCEPTION and ERROR CODE handling) instead of features....