Office Live Breakthrough day

Well, I've implemented all the hard stuff with OfficeLive... the authentication is happening without a graphical log on screen and I am displaying and updating "lists". A couple little tricks I discovered:
1. On OfficeLive: the WebBCM is the root for the Lists.asmx
2. Inserting a new item into a list happens via UpdateListItem with a blob of XML.

Dabble DB

On the Dabble DB site, they have this really cool demo:
http://dabbledb.com/explore/7minutedemo/

Open ID

A lot of buzz around Open ID has been generated. It seems it's an idea who's time has come. Basically OpenID is a distributed authentication system. Some of the major supporters of this are myopenid.com and idproxy.net . I've heard rumours that shopify is going to be supporting it.

Here's a bit of a confirmation: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/12/28/Unobtrusive-OpenID

How does it work?
When you go to a web 2.0 site and it supports Open ID you just put your unique URL into the text box and the web 2.0 site goes to the authentication service say myopenid.com which in turn asks you if it's okay to authenticate with this service. Simply no more accounts to keep track of and no more accounts to subscribe to.

Delivering Software is hard

Software delivery is hard but not in the intellectual way as it's all about getting the myriad of details correct: where does this artifact go, do I need this configuration file in the release build, did all the latest files get checked into the source control system, has all the tests been done on the latest code base.