Apologies for not having written up the last couple of Architecture chats - because I'm short for time I'm just going to publish some links for the various things we talked about in both chats.

Code Analysis Toolks (Chat #38)

• NStatic - and some of the other stuff Wesner Moise gets up to.
• PREfast Analysis tool and some it's history.
• The demise of FxCop and some discussion about why it doesn't seem to be up to play with the 3.5 Framework and also some discussion around it's Integration with VS.Net.
• Gendarme from the Mono Project.
• Smokey - which I think is integrated into mono develop now along with Gendarme.
• VS2010 Code Analysis & Code Metrics support.
• NDepend and the challenge of interpreting results.

Domain driven design examples (Chat #38) - we had a brief lunchtime discussion around what's out there and the difficulties in finding more holistic examples - the Shipping sample is a good resource, but is for Java - there was a proposal a while back on the ALT.Net list to port this over to .Net & NHibernate (with a first cut of the domain model done with Naked Objects) but haven't heard much since.

Discussed that Microsoft etc. are still searching for more industry mentors in Auckland to participate in the Imagine Cup 2009 - incidentally this year the topic is a lot more forgiving (it came under some critcism last year with it's environmental focus).

Other topics for Chat #38 Also include BizSpark, and the good parts (great from a cashflow perspective) and bad parts (generally forces you into a forming a seperate company if you've already been established for a while or making the move from bespoke to product) - we also had a discussion/report of the Microsoft Focus group that Garreth & myself attended. 

Also discussed was the OODB -> ORM Idea and the issues around the performance profile issues you may only discover once you swap to an ORM i.e. SELECT N + 1 etc, as a brief talk about the implications of writing LOB applications in Silverlight, hosted within a winforms app.  I argued against the OODB because most of the benefits can be realised as long as your ORM is capable of generating a schema, such as NHibernate and many others can.

Chat #37 Covered a lot of PDC details, Windows 7, MS Surface SDK availability, NHibernate profiler, Mozilla Prism, Linq to Sql being put on the back-burner, C# 4 features, The M grammar language and some discussion around things we're not entirely clear on yet i.e. how does M handle migrations and scheme changes as the understanding of a domain/model evolves.  There was a lot more besides that, but my memory fails me.

The next chat is this Thursday 4th December - it may or may not be the last one for the year - we shall see!