New and Notable 65

My gosh; N & N 64 was August 15th, I got to get back on the stick. Of course, there is always too much going on and I have some very exciting projects going on that I can`t of course blog. So what`s left?

• CruiseControl.NET 0.7 RC-1 my favorite Continuous Integration Tool is out.
• From the must-have OpenNetCF folks, Alex Feinman investigates event handlers within the Compact Framework and gives examples of adding and removing event handlers and raising events on third-party classes.
• Ben Miller has the steps on Installing VS2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Team Server.
• Somasegar blogs on the announcement at OOPSLA 2004, a framework and set of tools for delivering domain-specific visual designers that plug into Visual Studio Team Systemand Software Factories. I need to still sit down and spend some quality time with Software Factories to see if the concept holds water.
• Everyone sick of me and others ranting on the evils of strncat and strycpy in C++? Well, tough, here`s Micheal Howard on the subject again.
• The Windows Mobile Team on Signing Smartphone apps with a privileged certificate
• Speaking of Mobile, a must-read rant from Russell Beattie who is right of course.
• Scott Hanselman has a post from one of the key Indigo Architects, Steve Swartz, reminding us of Indigo`s intent
• Michele, on A Pictorial - From OOP to Service-Oriented - Do you get it yet?relates the confusion of many in the community, “All these buzz words (like SOA, SODA, SOI, SO-whatever) just confuse the heck out of a lot of people. And, frankly, we’re forgetting that new developers that haven’t a 12+ year history in development, must face a steep learning curve to grok a lot of important concepts: OOP, component-oriented development; distributed systems and related technologies such as security, message-level encryption; transactions, message queuing, loosely-coupled publish/subscribe models; Web Services in all their interoperable glory; and service-oriented design practices“, and then proceeds to give a fantastic visual perspective on the transition we are making. Does SOA have legs? I would have to say “Absolutely” and I will have much more to say on it in the 10th in my presentation on SOA with an Eye Toward Indigo.