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• Going oldest to newest, Bill Gibson, has started to really drill into Whitehorse and Architecture,  with Application Designer: copying endpoints vs. creating them from WSDL and Developer? Architect? All Hail the Devarchitect? I supsect many people in the Microsoft camp fall into that category. Also see his article on Top-down Design Using the System Designer
• Steve Eichert continues to ask all the right, smart questions about using Agile in the real world with “It looks Agile, It Sounds Agile, Is it Really Agile?“ He states correctly that “Don’t let yourself slip into the trap of just identifying a bunch of stories.  Make sure you have a vision.  Make sure the entire team understands your vision.“ Amen. This is what I blogged about in my post on System Metaphor and the place of Architecture in Agile projects. The System Metaphor IS the the shared vision of what you are trying to build and it's vitally important that the Whole Team (customers + dev team) share the same collectove vision before any User Stories start flying. There is also a place for Architecture in creating that vision collectively with the team.
• On to Team System. Make sure you take the survey for Team Foundation Server Beta 3 experiences.
• There are plans for a TFS Beta 3 Refresh once VSTS ships
• The October 2005 Preview build of Acrylic Graphic Designer is out
• Aaron has written an HTTP.SYS transport for WSE 3, whcih did not ship with the product, and is based on custom extensibility points in WSE.
• Aaron again nails it with “Scott Woodgate responds in an excellent post on the future of BizTalk Server and it's relationship to WF. The bottom line: WF is for workflow within applications while BizTalk is for workflow across applications. The later is the primary use case for enterprise application integration where BizTalk Server will continue in force.“ I'm suprised that the press and many developers can't make this distinction.
• PAG has realeased a CTP of WSE 3 Security patterns in teh PAG Service Orientation workspace [via Julie]
• Speaking of PAG, they have an exciting PAG Summit in Redmond Dec 13-15th: Keynotes by Alan Cooper & Anders Hejlsberg
  "Code Gallery" with Chris Sells. Even better, they have a March 28-30th East edition in Boston (Microsoft Waltham).