Architecture Chat was today... discussions included:

• ADO.Net Data Services shortcomings (no COUNT for starters...
  ).
  
  
• Entity Framework usability & the extensibility model (or
  lack thereof) etc.
  
• Template Engines / Domain specific languages and debug
  integration.
  
• The EyeFI
  Explore SD Card that packs both Wireless and GPS + 2GB
  storage into a single package.
  
  
• Sql Server Compressed Tables & Indexes.
  
• Thoughts around having pile-like columns in a
  database, and avoiding column-level information redundancy
  (compressed column).
  
  
• StringBuilder performance.
  
• Practical uses for BigTable (and Amazon SimpleDB etc.).
  
  
• A lot of developers don't use or even know of the yield
  operator in C#.
  

Thanks all for coming and see you in a couple of weeks.