Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would like to post a reply on the worth of the series for you personally, it certainly wouldn't hurt :) BizTalk/BizTalk Server Via Marjan , BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3 is now ready.  You can pull your copy down from: BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3#     Paul Petrov has an interesting post on using Generics for a Message Broker pattern WCF Orcas Dynamic Relay Endpoints in a Duplex Workflow Service Custom Password Validation for HTTP (very timely for something I am doing) A Follow-Up on PIAB+WCF Integration Steve Maines provides a very valuable service in collecting all the WCF Web Programming Model Documentation in one place IT Cautious Tech Spending in 2008? Lots of people are saying so SOA Following the above, ZapThink thinks that an economic downturn and cautious tech spending are good news for SOA. I think so too. They echo the Agility argument. If there is less spending, consolidation of existing IT assets, all those are reason for creating a more Agile and efficient IT to support a business that responds quicker than the competitors. Forrester's John Rymer and Mike Gilpin have written an extensive analysis of the overlaps and of which products are likely to prevail in Read More...