New and Notable 112

Wow, Scott Hanselman recommends these and then I don't have 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 Dihan 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

Architecture/Software Design

1. more later ....