I havent been able to write in my blog for a very long time and I do apologize.  Life it seems is hard...who knew?  Hopefully 2008 will be an easier life for me.  I have been mostly busy with being an Architect ( Im on my second contract where Im an Architect and its proving stressful) for the District of Columbia state gov't.  Im working on Web services and have learned some easy tips with security  ( mostly with WSE 3.0) and see the advantages of 3.0/3.5.

Where is Rainbow 2.1 you ask?  Thats a great question.  Currently, Im talking with the italians to see what they would like to do with rainbow.  Manu was having mixed thoughts but I got him to come back and commit to the project by Jan 08.  Miguel and I have done a lot of work behind the scenes and would hate to push that code only for the project to disband or be sold( I guess as a brand).  With Manu's promise, I have promised to bring out a 2.1 version of Rainbow which will specifically target .net 2.0-3.5.  Ive outlined this 2.1 version on my blog and between MGF, myself and a few developers, we have a solid version on the brink.  Once manu can  really commit, we can have his experience in doing releases.

 Furthermore,  HELLO Visual Studio 2008 came out today.  Well it came out to people who MS considers cool.  I got lucky and am a MSDN subscriber.  I also beta tested 2002/2003 versions of Visual Studio.  Ill be using Visual studio 2008 at my current gig to leverage the new framework additions ( mostly linq and updates to WCF/WF) to provide a better connected experience across our applications.  Ive provided a screenshot of the install.  Perhaps, Ill do a slackers overview for us bottom line developers.