Morning Coffee 79

  • Soma announces PopFly, the “fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications” from the Non-Professional tools team. The PopFly team blog has some videos. Sounds vaguely like Yahoo! Pipes, but cooler. While most of the focus is on their browser-based mashup creator, they also have VS support for the non-non-professionals among us.
  • Eric Nelson suggests that the new Dynamics CRM systems is actually a LOB application platform in it’s own right. More details in Ben Riga’s MIX session. (via Gianpaolo)
  • Sam Gentile is worried that C# is becoming to complex, especially when you also consider how fast the platform is moving underneath. When you get your head out of the debugger for a second and look at the Big Picture, it certainly seems overwhelming. Is it just a question of getting used to it? The first time I fired up the VS.net 2002 alpha and looked at all the classes in the BCL, I had the same overwhelmed feeling, but eventually I got over it. Or have things just gotten too big and move to fast now? If so, it’s time for some new layers of abstraction…
  • Udi Dahan writes about building testable services. Testability has to be a core consideration when building anything, but especially a reusable framework. I’ve had similar thoughts about language design. How do you unit test a DSL?
  • Roberto Medrano of SOA Software thinks “maybe 20 percent of IT folks understand SOA and half of the rest think they do”. Personally, I think most IT folks don’t agree on what SOA is or should be. Furthermore, we don’t even have a common lexicon to discuss it, so we end up talking past each other and arguing about topics we agree on. I think Roberto is really saying is “most people are wrong because they don’t agree with what I think SOA is”. (via Jack van Hoof)
  • Jeffrey Snover talks about the virtuous cycle of .NET language support. His point is that time spent learning .NET pays off as you transition between system programming (C#, VB.NET), shell programming (PowerShell) and script programming (IronPython, DLR). I’m not sure I would break them down that way, but his point spot on.
  • Clemens Vasters experiments with the new BizTalk Services with a sample called TweetieBot. I agree 100% with his point about the assumption of centralization will be challenged by the federation of personal services.
This entry was posted by DevHawk on May 18, 2007. It was posted in Morning Coffee. It was tagged Lanugages and SOA.

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