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intersting morning. i attended the WCF+REST talk (Steve Maines and Rob Bagby) and it was very interesting. the WCF story for handling REST is getting much better. they handle methods and URI fairly well. but the MIME-Type story is not so good. right now MIME-Types are static at compile time and there is no easy way to do content neogtiation with clients. there is a new "interceptor" pattern that can be used to work around this, tho. in general HTTP metadata is still not treated as first-class content yet. hopefully that will change over time. there is a new WCF REST Starter Kit that shows some ways to 'stretch' the current WCF pattern. i'll be checking it out.

i also attended a talk on the Cache Extensibility model. this is the way Velocity caching is hooked into ASP.NET. it's also a general facade for windows caching. it even makes its possible to hook memcached into .NET apps. pretty cool. they need to work out some details in the facade and then drive it into the .NET 4.0 bits. it's a ways out, but i;m encouraged by the approach.

things are winding down here - show is over @ 3P. i'll proly make one more post to wrap up my session notes and that will be it. be sure to send any other questions if you have them. i'll take some time tonight to review them and post any answers.