Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn...

Software Architecture

• The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software Factory and they looked like they brought over some of the cool stuff from the Mobile version:
• What’s New
  In this drop, you have the first look at:
  • New Application Blocks. We have ported over four application blocks that were previously available as part of the Mobile Client Software Factory. We may refactor, remove, replace, this code in the future (we value your input), but we currently have the following:
  o Disconnected Agent Application Block. This application block provides management features for execution of Web services from occasionally connected smart clients. With a disconnected service agent, the device can maintain a queue of Web service requests when offline (disconnected) (emphasis mine) and then replay them when a connection to the server application becomes available.
  o Connection Monitor Application Block. This application block monitors and exposes the available connections and the associated networks.
  o Endpoint Catalog Application Block. This application block provides features to expose the physical addresses and other details of remote services.
  o Data Access Application Block. This application block provides support for SQL Server Compact Edition. This application block will be replaced when the factory migrates to the next version of Enterprise Library.
• Jeremy Miller continues his excellent posts and talks about something Steve and I approach in our architecture: Don't Let the Database Dictate Your Object Model. I have to admit to being dragged a bit by Steve into this approach with OR/M and dropping the whole data-centric database-out view I have had for many years.
• Also see his My Least Favorite Kind of Requirements
• Undocumented WCSF Feature: Global Exception Handling
• Udi tackles Can, or should SOA be implemented without web services

Ruby/Rails/Mac OS/X

• Steve points out an OS X Install Guide for Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Subversion, and Mongrel
• Also noteworthy is his Learn about Rest via Rails and Prefer readability over well factored code for unit tests

Vista

• Ed Bott shows a 1.3 GB memory leak with Vista Sidebar! (he seemed to clear it by restarting the sidebar). I have to say for me the Sidebar has always taken up chunks of memory and slowed down my Vista systems such that I hardly ever have it up. I must admit that my initial excitement a year ago or whatever has been replaced by the reality that is the Sidebar and how disappointing it is. Wow, a clock and new reader! I'm so excited. It could be me but has anyone found any real compelling gadgets and what do you think?

I'm listening to Don't Do It (Live At The Academy Of Music) by The Band on the album A Musical History (Digital Version)

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