A week since my last blog post! Here's a quick summary.
- My head has been spinning at work. Hit a busy period and I can't seem to work fast enough.
- Sydney is starting to get C-O-L-D cold!
- Gates is leaving Microsoft (later rather than sooner), Scoble is leaving Microsoft (I've been the web site for half an hour and I still don't know PodTech do)... would the last one to leave Redmond please turn out the lights? :)
- The continuous integration thing is moving along. Draco.Net, NAnt and NUnit all rock.
- Here's the trick for testing database code: have your
test setup put a transaction on the wire and have your test cleanup
roll back the transaction.
- I know I have only read the doc 8 times this week, but I think I'm starting to understand the DI pattern.
- Microsoft renamed InfoCard to now be CardSpace.
WTF? Still no cards? Infocard is still a good idea -
identity management is still very important but please guys drop the
"cards" thing. Not everyone follows WinFX developments up to the
minute and you're starting to confuse people. And I still don't
have a satisfactory answer as to why we are doing this over protocols
like HTTP and SMTP. Why not another rev of these protocols to
natively include identity, encryption and authentication, and then
build identity management frameworks on top of them?
- Neofiles has been doing my head in with talk of transhumanist singularities, cognitive liberty, liberation biology
and nano-biotech. For some reason I put my strongly skeptical
BS-Filter on hold for this show and I am starting to think about these
things. I'm definately not sold on some of these topics.
Maybe I'm just short on sleep.