Ryan Dawson turns his attention to Indigo, building a client and server and then adding security and reliability. In his writing, he also points out a number of pitfalls for you to avoid when getting starting with Indigo in the PDC bits.
Jeremy Mazner presents his second scenario for WinFS, this time describing his idea app for event management that would be cake to implement using WinFS. In fact, I’m pretty sure you could do the whole thing in the shell.
On a related note, I was watching an internal training video on WinFS yesterday and it excited me in a way that’s not appropriate for humans to feel about technology. The enumeration, update, serialization, relationship, extensibility and notification models just all seem so *right*. I’m looking forward to another drop of the bits that enables me to extend WinFS so I can really start building stuff.
Steve Kirk has updated the Architecture Developer Center with a series of streaming video presentations about the core architectures that motivated Longhorn. Topics range Pat Helland on comparing technology architectures with city architectures to Gurdeep Singh Pall talking about real-time collaboration, which a wide range of subjects in between. If you'd like to get your head in the same place that Microsoft's architects were when the conceived of Longhorn, while still getting information that you can use today, check these out.
If you need a look at Longhorn, but you couldn't make the PDC (or you're just dying for *another* look at Longhorn), WinHEC in May is the place to be. Of course, it's also the place to be if you're a PC h/w vendor, but then, you guys already know that. : )
Rory has graciously allowed me to volunteer as his code/slide monkey at his Portland Area .NET User’s Group meeting talk on Thursday, 2/26 at 6:30pm. The topic, in his words: "2/3 'Stuff you can use right now' and 1/3 'When pigs fly (Longhorn)'." I miss monkeying with my DM brethren, so I'm looking forward to this very much.
