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I'm having a very slow start this morning, here with my Peets, after a very late night of work. There has been so much work lately, so much to do and of course not enough hours to do it in, but we have shipped one COM+ native code 4-tier app into production that fully scales and now ramping up the .NET system using EnterpriseServices throughout. Anyhow, there still hasn't been a lot of time to write my original content that I had planned. I am re-reading Jason Brock's excellent CIL book and I was going to work that into some sort of intro to CIL and VES/CLR. I have still planned part 2 of the IIS 6.0 stuff as well as some more. Thats in addition to INETA stuff. Argh, better look around and see what everyone else is doing:

• For you fellow struggling Interop people (yes, admit it and be proud), don't forget to attend Adam and Sonja's session at PDC from the two masters and Interop team members
• Anders has been doing a four-part interview on Artima, a site that is becoming quite compelling for all things software development. The interview a lot of light into many decisions made in C# including the venerable Checked Exceptions issue. A must read.
• Also on Artima, is a fascinating interview with another God of languages, James Gosling, who has some very interesting discussion on the Checked Exceptions issue
• Clemens has most graciously made his two slide decks available from yesterday's JAOO conference. One is Layers. Tiers, Architectures and the other SOA. See his topic for the download links and some information.
• Martin Fowler “ My conclusion from this exercise was that using Ruby for XML transforms was much easier than using XSLT. “
• Craig reports that the Direct/X Summer update is available.
• Ray is hiring
• Brian Johnson has taken over responsibility for the MSDN Visual C++ site. I have some great ideas for you if you contact me.
• Doug and Steve Swartz are looking to meet with “many ASMX/Remoting/ES/COM+ customers that we can during PDC (both of us are speaking at the event). “ We'll be there talking to you about our ASMX.ES/COM+ app and I encourage you all to do the same.
• I haven't had the time to fully parse Shawn's Assembly Versioning Code of Ethics, but I started some thoughts and presented on this at Win-Dev with my Assembly Hell talk. Take a look at that and lets get the disucssion going.
• Lots of exciting stuff going on in the Web Services space with IBM and Microsoft's joint announements. I'm not sure people are really aware of the seismic shifts going on here with Microsoft's openness and the new degree of Interop between not just these companies but a whole lot more of them. Here is a “IBM / Microsoft whitepaper is a succinct overview of the key Web services interoperability specifications; it describes how these specifications compose to enable interoperable, SOA-based applications that are secure, reliable, and transacted.“ Also, see the Web Services Protocols Workshops and the updated WS Transaction specs.