WP7 App Submission for Europeans

After more than a year and a failed attempt to submit a WP7 application (back then very complicated if not living in the US), I tried again.
This time, the old submission was still hanging. Trying to update the 'missing details', the App Hub loops infinitely and finally crashes with ugly asp.net exceptions (both FF and IE).
Resubmitting my app ends in the same state, as documented here.

Is it really that hard Microsoft ? Let's see how long the support email reply takes for them..

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/90433/541630.aspx

.net SxS explained

.net Side by Side explained (.net 4.0)
Hopefully this piece adds a puzzle piece
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clrteam/archive/2009/06/03/in-process-side-by-side-part1.aspx

to VSOT (Visual Studio Tools for Office) Runtime versions / .net Versions and 32/64bit hosts.

WP7 - have it & deployment

short: Got a Windows Phone, which is frighteningly fun to use and almost addictive.
And i realized that Microsoft has spun a pretty impressing web of social websites, all accessible with a Live Id. I am sure their servers will hit bottlenecks, and usage of MS sites raise quite a bit.
Deployment is tricky. nicely guided by several MS tools and sites, but do I really need to send in a physical tax declaration form to MS before I can test-deploy my App ?
Phew...

AMQP - a new Message Bus Standard on it's way ?

Loving Message Buses and Messaging in General (so far favourite: Tibco - so far least favourite, Oracle), I was delighted to hear about AMQP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protocol).

A new Messaging Protocol, made also to integrate with Tibco and other (proprietary) systems. Backed by the Finance Industry which undoubtedly is a good case for a reference project, setting the stakes high and surely resulting in a performant system.
Hopefully it'll become available, replacing the Oracle Message Bus, soon enough !!

MCP-Test passed ! 70-536

I passed ! Unexpected, but efficiently ;-)

Lunch Driven Development

Grin, somewhat aligned with my views, I found a blog that talks about a Lunch Driven Development Methodology.

Read for yourself and be amazed how much speed your development can gain just by making sure your team eats lunch under certain conditions ;-)

According to Heise, IT jobs are particularly stressful

Interesting study revealed. do you agree or disagree ?
In german only, sorry !

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Studie-IT-Jobs-besonders-stressig-847283.html