Jim recently asked me to put together a few stand-alone articles, loosely excerpted from my upcoming book.
The first one just went online: One Platform to Rule Them All. This is based on a section from pretty early in the book. In fact, it's near the front of the first chapter.
I chose the title based on T-shirts the CLR team had printed up a few years back, which prominently displays this slogan on it along with some nifty graphics (e.g. a ring inscribed with code). As you can imagine, it's based on a famous book series, and more recently, movie series...