I got an email this morning from Richard Veryard wondering if I should now be called EdgeHawk. That’s funny. Alas, EdgeHawk.com is “Your #1 internet Hoosier Racing Tire source” so I think I’m going to stick with DevHawk…at least for now.

The hardware failure that caused DevHawk to be down in early December also took out my wife’s blog TechieWife. But she just started up a new TechieWife MSN Space. Subscribed (of course).

After blogging quite a bit last week, I’ve been to busy to blog this week. Between the Labor day holiday Monday and leaving for PDC tomorrow, it’s a short week with lots to do. I’m going to PDC several days early because my family is coming with me and we’re visiting friends and family who still live in LA. Patrick is very excited to be going on a “sky tuka-tuka” i.e. “sky train” i.e. airplane.

Next week will be more of the same from me around here. I’m not going to many sessions – I can get the content on the post conference DVD or simply by emailing the speaker or team directly. PDC is more about hanging out in the community lounge areas the connecting with the other attendees. (Well, that and presenting at the Architecture Symposium.) So I won’t be blogging about cool new technology, but you might see the occasional post about a conversation I had with another attendee. Every time I talk to a customer is an opportunity to learn something and expand my thinking, and PDC represents a great opportunity for lots of conversations.

So we’re one week out on TechEd. This time next week, the final prep will be done and we’ll be ready to let this thing fly. Some of the core team goes down this week, though as a track owner, I’m not really needed on site until Sunday.

What a difference a year makes. Last year, I was freaking out – it was my first TechEd. Now I feel like the old hand at this. Of course, I wouldn’t have made it through last year with out the assistance of a few key individuals. Among others was Esther, who just started blogging for this year’s TechEd. She’s got a long post about the track cabanas. Last year, they were a big hit, but there were a few glitches. Esther writes about some of the changes they made this year to address those issues.

If you’re going to TechEd, make sure to stop by the ARC cabana and say hi.

I try to spend more time writing original content for this site and less time simply pointing at other people’s stuff. However, you’ll notice the lack of updates around here lately. Things are busy at home – my wife and I are expecting our second child this week! So the dearth of content will continue for now…

However, while I remain too busy to blog, here are a couple of other new blogs worth reading:

• David Ing’s blog From 9 till 2 is a must read. He asked for no gratuitous linking, but it’s too good to keep secret. Not only does David have valuable insights, he’s also funny. Check out his thoughts on SOA Versioning, Domain Specific Languages, Smart Clients and Wikis. But whatever you do, don’t miss his post on the Cold War of OO->SOA, building on Ted’s Vietnam War analogy of object/relational mapping.
• Wojtek Kozaczynski is an architect for patterns & practices and is heavily involved with the Guidance Automation Toolkit I blogged about two weeks ago. He writes in his introductory post that he’s started blogging now to talk about the GAT, starting with a brief history of how it came to be.