My work involves web services. A ruddy great lot of it. That said, I'm coding the front-ends in Flex, so I'm already asking for trouble.

I'm not sure what the issue was with SQL 2008. I think it was the product itself rather than the interaction between the two, but who am I to know, I only use it to store text and draw lines between tables.

• you're a platform decision maker;
• you're moving to Visual Studio 2008;
• you're making extensive use of web services;
• and you're not using Windows Communication Foundation, then you need to seriously consider whether you've made the right career choices, because you're an idiot.