From John Alexander’s Blog, I found a link to an article in the Seattle PI about Ward Cunningham joining Microsoft. The article focuses primarily on descibing wikis, but it does mention he now works for PAG doing pattern work. I liked this quote:

“I write the seed of the idea and I come back in a week and see how the idea has grown.”

It’s also interesting to see that it took a month and a half for the news to go from blogs to a “mainstream” news source.

Like others, my PDC DVD arrived today. Nice to see that all three Architecture Symposium sessions made the cut for the top 27 sessions of PDC.

I was reading Steve’s blog with my browser earlier today when I noticed his odd permalink url’s. Instead of a url like “http://devhawk.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=9abbd5ea-3a10-44d8-8872-877033b7349c”, his look like “http://hyperthink.net/blog/PermaLink,guid,fc99ce5e-b748-44f0-853d-0a261632b885.aspx”. Turns out it’s a standard feature of dasBlog! Just check “Enable URL rewriting” in the config page and you’re set. Now my permalink url’s look like Steve’s.

Since Google doesn’t index pages based on query string, this feature should make my site more easily crawled and googled.

Update: This feature breaks sub category specific feeds, like “Blogging | dasBlog“, so I’m turning it back off until someone can fix the bug.

Michael Platt, Field Architect in the UK, has started a blog. I know Mike and so I’m looking forward to reading his thoughts on the topics he lists in his first post. Subscribed.

Usually when we talk about Java / .NET interop, we’re talking about services, messages, SOAP, web services, etc. But here’s a cool article by Simon on interoping Java SWING with Windows Forms. Not particulatrly tight interop in this case (it looks like the two forms are in seperate processes), but it gets the job done.