Chris Sells is featuring the Architecture Strategy Series as the headline on the Longhorn Dev Center. Thanks Chris!

Steve and Keith beat me too it (I was in a meeting), but let me blog the news anyway: We’ve relaunched the MSDN .NET Architecture Center. In addition to the much-improved look and feel, it improves our ability to get new content on the site. For example, we just posted the February edition of Architecture Update featuing an article on smart clients by David Hill and a new community article by yours truly (plus a new yet still horrific picture). We also have two webcasts this week (actually, we have webcasts every week).

Let me know what you think of the new design plus what other content you’d like to see up there.

BTW, I’m aware that there is no RSS feed for the new Architecture Center yet. We’re working on that…

For those who read my site in a news reader, I added a TechEd 2004 flair to my site. The TechEd site recently posted the sessions names for the Architecture Track as well as the abstract for the Architecture PreConference Session. Get more info @ the TechEd home page.

Again, I’m late to the story but I think it’s ultra-cool that MS Research released the source code to Allegiance. At 511 MB, it’s almost thirty times bigger than Rotor + Gyro, which is a significant code release in itself, though honestly, only about 5% of the Allegiance archive is code, the 95% is in the “Artwork” subdirectory. That still leaves about 25MB of compressed code.

I’d love to see a port to MC++, a la Quake II.NET. Is anyone working on it?

At least one person was interested in an OPML of MSFT .NEAT and AE bloggers. So I hacked them out of my full blog roll and posted it on my site. I will be keeping it up to date, so check back every once in a while. I added a link to it in my nav bar so it is always available.

I love dasBlog. I was able to make one small change to the web.config file and now the OPML file is addressable while still being easily managed via dasBlog’s blogroll editor. Sweet.