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Write a Win7 App, Win $17,777 (need to be a yank though)

Developer

• Lessons Learned A Grand Post-Mortem
• NDepend Static Analysis Poster
• Free Ebook Developers Developers Developers Developers - some good articles, worth a read!
• Throw away and rebuild or refactor from within
• A programmers secret weapon the humble to-do list
• Episode 15 Bug Review
• Continuous Integration Community College Discussion at Mark Needham
• Stack Overflow Architecture High Scalability
• Hanselminutes - Return of Uncle Bob - Are you professional?

Architecture

• More On SubSonic’s Simple Repository
• LINQ to SQL and Transactions
• Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help
• Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage
• User Interface Patterns
• SQL SERVER – SELECT 1 vs SELECT – An Interesting Observation
• How to improve your LINQ query performance by 5 X times
• Create your own C# Code Generator with DSL in 15 minutes [part 2]
• Bistro - a compositional .NET MVC framework inspired by REST, AOP and Django and directly support F#
• Common Service Factory - great for DI and WCF services
• SOLID - S Single Responsibility Principle Coding Efficiency

Silverlight

• A Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3 Upgrade Checklist
• Silverlight Charting gets an update - and a TreeMap!
• Silverlight 3 and WCF Faults
• Silverlight.FX - updated for Silverlight 3
• Creating a Silverlight WCF Binary Encoding Client in Code
• Export Silverlight Visuals to Images
• Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight
• Simple Styles for Silverlight
• A code snippet to quickly write Prism commands
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3

Utils

• .NET Reflector, class browser, analyzer and decompiler for .NET
• Released XHTML Markup Sanitizer « Tatham Oddie
• Encrypt Your Web.config, Please

Games (as in board games)

• Carcassonne Board Game
• Puerto Rico Board Game

Singularity Watch

• Top 10 Artificial Technologies Ready To Create A Real Human Being
• Video Q&A With Ray Kurzweil

Other

• Google PowerMeter - measure electricity consumption – please can i get one of these
• A Basic Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• Simple F# Game using WPF – tanks
• Bill Gates What does 'browser' mean these days, anyway

Announcements

• SubSonic 3.0 is Released
• Will Code for Green! Developer Contest - any proxy americans out there?
• Google Set to Take On Microsoft With Desktop OS
• MSDN Up North Downloadable NDC2009 videos
... oh yea, and something called Silverlight 3.0 was released
• See the Light
• Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
• Silverlight 3 Relase Download Links and Installation Instructions
• The MossyBlog Times. Australian Silverlight & Expression 3 Tour.

Architecture

• Why Shouldn’t I use PRISM Grumpy Dev
• CouchDB Perform like a pr0n star
• Episode 13 Test Maintainability
• MSpec – Take 2 Elegant Code
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner
• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner

Developer

• Thrive for Developers - Driving Your Career
• WPF Multithreading Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. Elegant Code
• Ian Smith On ExposureRoom - Scott Gu in London
• A view model base class to use with MVVM in WPF UX and WPF ramblings
• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner - Jimmy Bogard -
• Hanselminutes - The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherov
• NOOP.NL Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob)
• Refactor ForEach to Join
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenarios - Journal - Rinat Abdullin
• How to Hire an A-Team LunarSea
• Embrace Pain
• How to write readable code 5 Tips to improve your code readability

UI

• 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns
• Silverlight Screen Transitions
• 31 days of silverlight
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies

Code

• Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity
• Common Compiler Infrastructure
• Code and software quality by advanced exception handling in .NET - exception handling
• .NET - Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET
• F# Parsing Cruise build data at Mark Needham
• Kirill Osenkov New CodePlex project a simple UndoRedo framework

Utilities

• Final version of WiX v3.0 now available for download
• Using NAnt to Traverse Directories and Execute SQL
• .NET Version Detector

Singularity Watch

• io9 - A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory - Memory-enhancing drugs
• Cyber armies are gearing up in the cold war of the web
• Stephen Hawking Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution
• Ray Kurzweil on How to Combat Aging
• The First Three Days of Singularity University
• Robot invented to crawl through veins
• New clues in search for elixir of youth
• Circos - visualize genomes and genomic data

Other

• How does the Universe work and What is Reality

Announcements

• Summer Silverlight Coding Competition
• Shane Morris UXB Surface SDK now available to Microsoft Partners
• Microsoft TechEd Australia attendees to receive free HP Mini Notebook with Windows 7

Architecture

• Entity Framework 4.0 What You May Be Missing
• Improving performance and scalability with DDD
• Managed Extensibility Framework Part 1
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Some Architecture Changes
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots
• 'how thingamy will revolutionize enterprise software
• Herding Code 51 Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD

Developer

• How to Make Efficiency Infectious When Working With a Team
• The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 1 Agile Software Development
• A Lifestreaming Workflow - tools for lifestreaming
• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009)
• CouchDB and Me - watch this if you ever considered breaking away from the corporate shackles and go it alone
• The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks
• Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method
• Understanding expression trees
• Given When Then (GWT) extension for xUnit.net

Silverlight

• 20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials
• How to Find, Download and Build Prism for Silverlight

Utilities

• xUnit.net - Unit Testing for .NET - Home
• Unit testing .NET - plain smart test tools mock framework C# VB Typemock
• moq - Google Code

Singularity Watch

• The Coming Artilect War - Hugo de Garis reckons gigadeath is imminent
• TransAlchemy 
• Singularity Watch - hey, that's my idea!
• Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University - funny
• Msg to our decendants File 0001 – umm, … yea??
• TransAlchemy The Age of Transitions - brainwashed, Darwinism, eugenics, big brother matrix styled post human society, worth a view
• Scientists create first electronic quantum processor

Books

• Compare book & DVD prices in Australia with Booko – next time you’re thinking of buying a book (in Australia) go to this site first
• Fishpond.com.au – this book ecommerce site seems to be pretty good for Aussies

Other

• Introduction to Nanotechnology • Nanotechnology 101 • Nanotechnology Project
• Andrew Brodie, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University - yea, didn't you know, I study nanotech in my spare time ;-)
• Book Lists 100 Books Your Child Should Hear before Kindergarten at the Library
• Microsoft misses the Outlook point
• StackExchange™—The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

Announcements

• Remix Australia Videos - if you didn't get to Sydney, like me :(, check out the presentations.
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Released - maybe
• Microsoft Tech.Ed Australia 2009 - Register for the event - early bird registration - $300 off ... now I just need another $1699

Architecture  - data access, languages, tech choices

• The Only Pattern for Data Access is - There Are No Patterns for Data Access
• NHibnerate Handling the Special Cases
• Getting Started First Project in Fluent NHibernate
• NHibernate - natural-id
• Data Access Stored Procedures vs. ORM (ad hoc) Queries
• Windows Mobile Developers Australia Codemasons' Guild
• Focus on the Extension of WCF Behavior
• Installing Windows SharePoint Services Application Template Core and All Templates
• Ruby at ThoughtWorks - Fowler discusses experiences with Ruby based projects
• dnrTV - F# screncast
• Getting the Scoop About Olso and M

Developer - processes, learning

• Who's the owner Shared code vs. code ownership Agile Software Development
• Effective software development - Mentoring the value of pairing
• Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development
• Values
• Corporate Information - Our Philosophy - Google Philosophy
• Lean Concepts for IT Professionals
• Stop and Refactor
• SQL Server Reporting Services and Working with Overlay Data
• Adopting Agile Practices
• Microsoft Learning Manager - start here if iinterested in getting certifications
• 9 Important XML Syntax Rules You Must Know
• Episode 1 The Code Room Channel 9 – gold geekiness
• ThoughtWorks - Audio Series

Silverlight/WPF

• A User Experience Journey Creating Styles in Expression Blend 2
• Which comes first the View or the ViewModel
• Prism for Silverlight 2 Taking ‘Hello World’ to a Whole New Level
• Prism Quick Start Kit Update
• Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM

Utilities

• NSyntheis 0.1.1 has escaped!
• Silverlight, Windows Live Writer and WordPress

Singularity Watch

• Are Commercial Buildings Ready for Open-Source Energy Management
• Kurzweil in the Lyons’ Den - Ray cops a beating for being the glass is half full guy
• H+ Cafe - Upload Your Thoughts
• 'Lightbulb' molecule has a bright future - teeny-tiny lights!
• Brain could adapt well to cyborg enhancements - I want my terminator hand!

Other

• Wookah - I was wondering if there was an aggregated search engine out there
• Geeky Innovations - Geekdom - Kingdom of Geeks - this seem to be a v.cool company
• Revision3 Current Shows - if you are a geek, you don't need ever need foxtel ... or a tv for that matter!
• Warning over 'superbug' risk from pets - anyone want two cats ... cheap!
• The Real Lessons From Twitter

Development

• An Agile Team's Weekly Schedule
• Agile development is more culture than process and why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance
• Scrum Agile Development - A Renaissance of Culture Through the Eyes of Levi-Strauss
• High-performance Teams – Avoiding Teamicide
• 10 commandments for creating good code
• Using NUnit to check your IoC container is set up right
• Nine Habits to Change Your Life
• Michael Lee Stallard on being fired up or burned out
• Top Ten Reasons to Love Agile Testing
• Kanban for Lean Project Management

Architecture

• REST is a style -- WOA is the architecture.
• Responsive Design
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF
• NHibernate Mappings - Development With A Dot
• NGourd Presentation .NET Software Development Videos & Tutorial Directory
• LINQ to NHibernate, part IV
• Just You Wait - Kent Beck
• The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software

Silverlight/WPF

• eventr - reference application using SuperDeepZoom control
• Binding Events to Commands
• WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting
• SilverZine Tutorial - Splash screens and Loaders in Silverlight
• Hanselminutes - Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer

Utilities

• NHModeller - Home
• smtp4dev - developer/tester smtp server
• Subversion 1.6, Tree Conflicts, and the Incompatibility of Subversion 1.5 What You Need to Know

Books

Beautiful Teams

Fired Up or Burned Out How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity Michael L. Stallard

• After the Software Wars by Keith Curtis (Book) in Computers & Internet

Singularity Watch

• The Scientific Battle Against Alzheimer’s Disease
• War 2.0 - Rise of the Robots
• Global IP Traffic to Increase Fivefold by 2013
• Speeding up brain networks might boost IQ
• Roll-Up Solar Panels
• Swarm Robotics Beware The Swarm (videos)
• The Dizzying Data Rate Conundrum

Other

• The Happiness Project
• Guide to world Domination
• Great Place to Work(TM) Institute
• How to Ace Your Finals Without Studying

Announcements

Server Fault – stackoverflow for NOCs :)

Development

• What You Need To Start Your Own Online Business
• How to Learn About Everything
• A Deep Breath
• How to Motivate Programmers
• Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave in IT
• C# Regions are not Useful Give me a Break
• Summary of Agile
• 10 steps to web start up
• Entrepreneurship Corner Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovator
• What I look for in a Code Review
• NDepend and CruiseControl.NET
• pair programming

Architecture

• Training – software architecture training
• The role of a hands-on software architect
• Domain-Driven Design Two basic premises - DDD
• I don’t believe in ORM object as your domain model
• To ORM or Not to ORM.

Unit Testing

A Look at CreateMock, DynamicMock and PartialMock Methods in RhinoMocks

.Net

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects
• Windows Workflow 4.0 quick Activity reference
• Expression Trees
• Review CryptoLicensing for .NET
• SQL Server 2008 for developers

Books

Singularity Watch

• Xbox 360 Project Natal Full-Body Motion Control One-Ups the Wii - Project Natal
• Ray Kurzweil A university for the coming singularity Video
• Academic Tracks & Teams Singularity University – a spare $25K anyone?
• Grand Challenges for Engineering

Other

• List of Australian Startups
• YouTube - ukdpe's Channel
• The Downfall of Agile Hitler - gold
• Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing Video

Quotes

" Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi