Financial and Banking

• I work with a bunch of people that used to work in Collateral at ABN Amro, so it was interesting to see Mike's news that ABN Amro agreed Monday to be acquired by Barclays of Britain for 67 billion euros (nearly $91 billion), creating one of the world’s largest banks

SOA/Software Architecture

• I picked up this link to Steve Jones' Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies book from Harry. Looks like great stuff, I bought the book
• Dale points to Nick Malik's series of articles on SOA governance
  

WPF

• Cool! Karsten has a five day course for becoming one with WPF [via Chazz]
  

WCF/Indigo/Identity

•  Richard asks the damn good question, "Windows CardSpace: What's Stopping You?" I really don't have a good answer as we need an Identity solution. I guess, for me, its trying to switch from a Windows Authentication scheme to a more Claims based one with Indigo and then trying to judge the role of ADFS. Its something we should start though