Announcements

• Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN
• Games for Windows Self-Certification Site (Home Page)

Architecture

• Moving your SQL Server Database to the Clouds Try the SQL Azure
• My learnings AntiXSS v3.1 new features
• Simple auditing using an NHibernate IInterceptor (Part 4) - Scott's Blog
• MapReduce On Windows Simpable - qizmt from MySpace
• qizmt - Project Hosting on Google Code
• AutoMapper - Home object to object data transfer - good for DTOs etc
• Pex, Stubs, QuickGraph, MbUnit, Reflector Addins - Pex 0.16.40915.5 Moles, a lightweight Detour Framework, and
• Embedded SQL database engine for .NET developers - VistaDB
• Space based programming in .NET, video - alternative to the traditional n-tier model for enterprise applications. Instead of a vertical tier partitioning, space based applications are partitioned horizontally into self-sufficient units
• Developing for Surface, part I
• The cost of latent logging code - good example of asynchronous logging
• Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 2)
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata
• Introducing DynamicWrapper
• IT Conversations Technometria with Phil Windley Brian Ellin, Doug Kaye (Free Podcast) - RPXNow/OpenID

Developer

• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Hanselman List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers
• Take Two A jQuery WCFASMX ServiceProxy Client - Rick Strahl's Web Log
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding What's the difference between a partial method and a partial class
• InfoQ MP3 Downloads Now Available, 5 Agile 2009 Presentations Posted
• Make BDD Your BFF - MSpec
• Code Review - Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review - Get the Free Book

Management

• InfoQ I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It
• Two Chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning Avialable Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile®

ASP.NET MVC/Web/jQuery

• Developing Web 2.0 Portal using Asp.Net MVC, Microsoft Ajax Client Templates and jQuery with drag and drop widget personaliz
• Microsoft Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.NET MVC
• CodeProject Best Practice No 4- Improve bandwidth performance of ASP.NET sites using IIS compression
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (4 in a series)
• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services
• Microsoft Ajax CDN and the jQuery Validation Library
• Video of the David Ebbo presenting T4MVC to the Community For MVC virtual user group
• Community For MVC.Net - Code Camp Server 1.0
• Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth
• xVal v1.0 Now Available « Steve Sanderson’s blog
• Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib
• A First Look at ASP.NET MVC 2

Singularity Watch

• Artificial General Intelligence development - Singularity Summit 09
• Technology Review Advanced Solar Panels Coming to Market
• h+ Magazine Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing--and will change--human beings in fund
• Q&A Nick Bostrom on the Future of Human Enhancement

Other

• Top 5 Web Trends of 2009 Internet of Things
• God No! ...The ReBuilder - hilarious

Announcements

• Hosted TFS for BizSpark Companies
• CodePlex Foundation

Architecture

• Acceptance testing in plain English
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM
• Avoid Soft Deletes - audit trail
• DDD Repository Implementation Patterns
• Webcast Entity Framework Tips & Tricks
• BDD from scratch – Build your own framework (Part 1) Robust Software
• Simple Auditing Using an NHibernate IInterceptor (Part 2)
• Building Scalable Databases Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg High Scalability
• Why F# (TechEd '09 DEV450)

Developer

• Up to 25% off many Microsoft Exams – We’re talking 74 exam’s that are 15%, 20% or 25% percent off (worldwide,
• IronPython - developer Fusion  podcast
• Dirty Coding Tricks
• Dynamically Loading Config Files
• Automating database script execution
• .NET Naming Conventions

Management

• Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks
• Top Ten Tips for An Agile Coach
• Your People
• Leading Agile Rethinking Scrum and XP

ASP.NET MVC/Web

• ASP.NET MVC Transaction Attribute (using NHibernate)
• If Your Users See an HTTP Error Code You’re Doing It Wrong
• ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released
• ASP.NET MVC & Twitter Integration - getting inside 'Hello'
• ASP.NET MVC Using RESTful Architecture
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0
• Monitoring Production Performance The Inquisitive Coder
• ASP.NET - Release ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Preview
• MVC Contrib - MvcContrib.org - Home
• Getting Started with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
• MvcFluentHtml – Fluent HTML Interface For MS MVC
• Hanselminutes Podcast 126 - Chat with John Resig, Creator of jQuery

Design

• 25 Incredibly Useful CSS Tricks You Should Know
• Horizontal Navigation Menus Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices Design Showcase Smashing Magazine
• 38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials

Silverlight

• Coding4Fun Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application
• The Elephant and the Silverlight Meet the DomainClient
• MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1 What’s new

Tools

• Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Rhino Mocks 3.6
• GitSharp making progress
• Nregex v0.1 - regular expressions, regex
• Security Tools How To Publish an ASP.NET Website from a Command Line
• Fiddler Trying to work out how it all hooks together
• PowerCommands for Reflector
• Home - Pencil Project

Other

• Intro to iPhone Development at ALT.NET Geek Dinner

Developer

• LIDNUG Scott Guthrie talks shop with developers II on LinkedIn Events
• Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Architecture

• Command Design Pattern BlackWasp Software Development
• Rest For ASP.NET MVC SDK and Sample
• CouchDB From 10,000 Feet
• Richard Dingwall » Law of Demeter is easy to spot when you need extra mocks
• Deep Reflection (400 level) - Videos - Roy Osherove - Agile & .NET Consulting, Training and Tools
• A Few Speed Improvements - Blog – Stack Overflow

Management

• The Dancing Agile Elephant IBM Software Group's Transition to Agile and Lean Development
• Context Switches are Bad, but Stack Traces are Worse

Design

• 65 Must-Know CSS Strategies and Tutorials

ASP.NET MVC

• T4 Templates A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers
• ASP.NET MVC Avoiding Tag Soup - delete column functionality
• Under the covers of HTML helpers in ASP.NET MVC
• NerdDinner with Fluent NHibernate Part 2
• ASP.NET MVC + MVC Contrib + Unit Testing
• How To Get Started With Selenium Core And ASP.NET MVC
• jQuery and MVC JSON
• Rest For ASP.NET MVC, integrating with Json.NET

Books

• gladwell dot com - blink

Singularity Watch

• Singularity University Spawns New Business Ventures to Address Humanity's Grand Challenges
• NOVA The Great Robot Race Video Extras PBS
• Information Addiction and Our Quest for Relevancy - PSFK
• Solar Power and the FLAP Bag Project
• YouTube - Janine Benyus Biomimicry in action
• Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature

Other

• Neill Blomkamp Short Films Navigation with Cooliris - district 9, yellow
• Amazing Short Films from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp
• “Information bad for you,” says older generation.
• A Manifesto for Slow Communication
• The Real Live Search - bing api ajax search
• Top 100 Aussie Web Startups - August 09

Architecture

• Presentations - Null References The Billion Dollar Mistake
• Shawn Wildermuth - RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM
• N-Tier Application Patterns - Entity Framework
• Introducing SpecMaker “Rspec style” BDD in C#
• Software projects are like sailing voyages
• Computer Engineer vs. Computer Scientist

Developer

• Don’t shave the yak, ask ‘Why are we doing this’ at Mark Needham
• Bear Shaving at Mark Needham
• Speeding up Visual Studio 2008
• Be a Good Jedi Build Your Own Blog
• All Programming is Web Programming - Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

ASP.NET MVC/Web

• MVC Membership Starter Kit Released
• expression-resources - Expression Studio Resources
• Announcing OpenSearch on ASP.NET made super easy with the OpenSearch Toolkit

Code

• Implementing some useful Enumerable Extension methods from Ruby
• Fields in C# - code standards
• How-To Using the N stack, part 1 « BASICly everything - NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, NINJECT, NUnit, jQuery
• Plug-In Hybrids ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Side By Side – the hanselman mashes all the m$ web tech up together - nice

Book

“Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman - James Crisp

Singularity Watch

• Uber-dexterous robot hands GENOMICON
• Worldchanging Bright Green The Solar Forest Charging Station And Shady Spot For Electric Cars
• Four Singularity Movies - The World Wants the Future
• Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man - "Big changes are coming.  Disruption is coming." – ooooh scary ;-) Basically – don’t get a career on a factory line.
• ASIMO robot impresses by navigating changing terrain
• Time for Humanity to 'Grow Up' If Global Problems Are to Be Overcome
• As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History
• IBM gets $16 million to bolster its brain-on-a-chip technology
• Solar Industry No Breakthroughs Needed
• Potential Energy Weeding Out Solar Companies
• First Solar Lowering the Cost of Solar Electricity Home

Other

• Spokenlounge - groovy music tracks
• http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/ - html5
  http://vimeo.com/5606758 - worlds second largest fishtank ... v.cool
• We Are All Software Companies Now
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
• Brain exercise paper plane
• The Hive - business networking for entrepreneurs in Melbourne + Brisbane
• GraysOnline Auctions Blog

Architecture

• NHibernate Linq 1.0 released!
• T4 Toolbox - Release 9.7.25.1
• DimeCasts.Net Details for # 130 - Isolation Frameworks Learning how to validate complex expectations
• Pros and Cons of Data Transfer Objects
• Reading Code Rhino Mocks
• EF v2 and Data Access Architecture Best Practices
• Rebuilding guardian.co.uk With DDD
• Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching
• Learning resources for Entity Framework 4.0 new features

Developer

• HOW TO Convert PowerPoint to Silverlight (Deep Zoom) like presentation
• pptPlex - tool for creating silverlight presentations
• Vista and Office 2007 Preview Handler Pack released « Tatham Oddie
• The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
• How To Stay Happy If You Work For Someone Else Brazen Careerist
• charliedigital  - 6 Books That Should Be On Every .NET Developers Bookshelf
• Laid Off It's Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry
• Replace Comments With Code

Management

• Moserware Just Enough MBA to Be a Programmer - " Every developer painfully learns that technology doesn't win on its own. "
• Business Plan Template
• Good Programmers Don’t Need No Marketing
• Agile Commentary Post agile, one third of you will be gone...

Code

• The .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) Enables LINQ over Events
• LINQ FAQ Part 3 - CRUD
• STM.NET on DevLabs
• Workflow Web Services
• Using .NET Avoid Common Performance Pitfalls for Speedier Apps
• sqlitecs - Project Hosting on Google Code Windows C# port of the SQLite3 library.

ASP.NET MVC/Web

• Include Stylesheets and Scripts From A WebControl In MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 with Phil Haack and Virtual Scott Scott Hanselman Channel 9 – talking about new MVC 2
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released
• ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released - ScottGu's Blog
• Bing Community - Common errors that can tank a site (SEM 101)
• Developing Web 2.0 Portal using Asp.Net MVC, Microsoft Ajax Client Templates and jQuery with drag and drop widget
• jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web
• Put Your Views (and Pages) On a Diet
• ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo Using the Spark View Engine

Silverlight

• Building WPF and Silverlight Applications with a Single Code Base Using Prism
• Quakelight – quake ported to silverlight
• 2009 July 30 - MEF/Silverlight extensibility
• Navigation Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered!
• Silverlight, SEO & ASP.Net MVC – Part 1 (Proof of Concept )
• New snippets for Silverlight and WPF

Designer

• Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Books

Utilities

• LINQPad - new version

Singularity Watch

• A Biofuel Process to Replace All Fossil Fuels
• Smart machines What's the worst that could happen

Other

• Your body wasn’t built to last a lesson from human mortality rates
• Personal Lives vs. Electronic Communication The Battle Continues
• Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the next software boom
• MonoTouch Mono on iPhone closed preview
• Step-By-Step Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
• Verizon Mifi Personal Wi-Fi Coming this Month Gadget Lab
• The best of the best iPhone apps

Architecture

• Create NHibernate classes using T4
• Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection Working with Windsor Container
• Building a Composite Application Framework
• MSDN Architecture Center
• Microsoft Certified Architect Program
• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM
• ADO.NET Data Services Advanced Topics SubSonic Data Context
• Is Dependency Injection Replacing the Factory Patterns

Developer

• TDD Anti-Patterns
• Blog - Robert Bogue [MVP] What does an OutOfMemoryException in .NET (on 32 bit) really mean?
• Protecting your precious code! - obfuscation
• Basic Unit Testing Guidelines
• Refactor ForEach to Join
• Leading by Example
• Agile Groups

Designer

• 25 Essential Web Services for Designers
• Blend 3 - #8 SketchFlow States

Silverlight

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 Part 6 Data Transfer Objects
• blacklight.silverlight showcase
• Taking Silverlight Deep Zoom to the Next Level
• Composing Applications with Silverlight and Prism
• Creating a 3D tagcloud in Silverlight (part 1)
• dnrTV - behaviours in silverlight 3
• 20 Best Silverlight Tutorials Freshers Wisdom Silverlight, Tutorial, Tutorials, Web, Framework

Web/ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 3 MvcContrib Grid & jQuery Plugins
• 30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals
• Introduction to Test-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC
• Visual jQuery 1.2.6
• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component

WPF

• Differences between Label and TextBlock - useful to know when doing White automation
• What is the difference between the WPF TextBlock element and Label contro
• THE MODEL-VIEW-VIEWMODEL (MVVM) DESIGN PATTERN FOR WPF
• Data virtualization

Utilities

• Free PowerShell EBook
• Ease The Pain of Office Interop - export to excel

Singularity Watch

• Artificial brain '10 years away'
• Daily Kos State of the Nation - Exponential Solar, Politics, and Ray Kurzweil
• TED2009 Cities in the sand, theremins and more whooping
• NASA Nanotechnology in particular Buckypaper

Other

• Linus Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease
• Computer_hardware_poster

Fun

• This is the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever. You will be tested. – it’s not that tough
• Interpreter - JavaScript Interactive Interpreter