Not too much going on today.

Ruby/Rails

• Rails 1.2 RC1 is out, the first release in almost 8 months. The biggest thing seems to be extensive REST support. Here is what is new in ActiveRecord, new in Action Pack and new in Active Support.

Blogsphere

• Good news is it seems like Jason is coming back with his Interesting Finds

Architecture

• One item I picked up from Jason is that J.D. Meier has noted that PAG added 238 new items of guidance to the Guidance Explorer. This is a great tool for .NET developers and they should be using it IMHO
• Roger Wolter has written an excellent architectural paper on Service Broker. While I disagree with the statement, "While I like to think that all applications are potential Service Broker applications, the reality is that only most of them are", there is a lot of great material and guidance to think about

WCF

• Nicholas Allan talks about a common Indigo programming error with Mixing MessageContract Attributes

CLR/Orcas

• Specs for Orcas are being made public and you can participate [via Mike]
• A whole blog dedicated to the CLR language F# which is quite interesting [ via Mike]

Misc

• Scott tells How to Disable Windows Desktop explorer Integration after installing Office 2007
• Everyone at work is Borat crazed. Julie lists a bunch of the reasons I'll never see it

[tags: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Windows Vista, Architecture, Software Architecture, .NET, F#, Orcas, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft]