Paul Ballard provides a nice summary of the Indigo Day at VSLive. I especially like the acronyms that the Indigo boys were using; the ABCs of Indigo and the CIA of security are damned easy to remember!
″David Chappell provides an architectural overview of ‘Indigo,’ Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. The paper covers Indigo’s relationship to existing distributed application technologies in the .NET Framework, the basics of creating and consuming Indigo services, and an overview of Indigo’s capabilities, including security, reliable messaging, and transaction support.”
The first article of a new Indigo programming model since PDC03 (and hopefully the one that’ll stick : ).
It’s become apparent to me that for Microsoft-focused non-Microsoft hosted conferences, VSLive is it. I know that in the past that they’ve had financial problems, but I haven’t heard rumors of that for a while. Even more importantly, their attendance numbers and their coverage is top notch for 3rd party Windows developer conferences. If I was going to speak at a wide-reach Windows developer conference that wasn’t a TechEd or a PDC, VSLive would be it.
″Somasegar says a key component of continuing this momentum is creating ‘connected systems’ that work together by using smart clients. ‘Let’s take the best from the Web client world and the best from the rich client world, and—voila!—you have a smart client,’ Somasegar says. Smart clients can allow several applications to share code with one another while using minimal resources, eliminating the need to duplicate coding efforts; essentially, if one application requires a piece of code existing already in another application, it simply can request the code to be sent over. ‘The cheapest piece of code is the piece of code that you don’t have to write in the first place,’ Somasegar says, as smart clients provide interoperability through Web services and leverage existing investments. ‘Enabling developers to reuse existing assets is a key design goal.’ The end result of using a smart client, ultimately, is a rich user experience that requires using minimal resources.”
″If you looked at the PDC 2003 Indigo bits, you will notice that the [Indigo] programming model changed quite a bit. I think that in fact, every single element of the programming model changed since then. And all for the better. The programming model is so intuitive by now that I am (almost) tempted to say ‘Alright, understood, next technology, please.’”
