SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available for free! CLR Jason keeps on rocking in the free world with Simple Reflector AddIn: Count Box Instructions . It's official, he's done taken the CLR Crown from me :) WCF Dr. Nick on a very important but difficult area of WCF: Custom Transport Retry Logic MAC OS/X/Vista It looks like Leopard has been a disaster from everyone you talk to other than the Mac fanboys (who try top spin anything) . Omar points out that you go from Vista to OS/X to whatever and the problems always remain the same. He has his once in a decade link to Dave Winer here that I will repeat. This is the worst OS/X release, it's rushed, it's buggy, it's causing blue screens BSODs (oops, sorry "kernel panics"), application compatibility problems , new security dialogs , pundits warning users to postpone upgrades , users canning the OS entirely . For the record, I did manage to upgrade my Intel Dual Core iMac to Leopard but I didn't get the buzz I felt after Tiger and other releases . Its perhaps the least innovative version of OS/X yet. For once, the tables are turned and the photocopies were reversed: it's a pale immitation of Vista. If people thiink icons flying up in a fan Read More...