Notable Events

• Silverlight 2 Released
• Windows 7 will be named 'Windows 7' - and it will support multitouch interface!! - Windows Vista Team Blog Introducing Windows 7
• ASP.NET MVC Beta Released

Management/Process

• Interview Questions Every Developer should ask an Employer
• Rands In Repose The Culture Chart
• Are You Actually A Post-Agilist
• 10 ways to survive office politics - Strategy - Career - Builder AU
• Are Your Developers Goofing Off

Architecture

• Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture Architecture Journal 17 - Distributed Computing

ASP.NET

• The Inquisitive Coder - Davy Brion’s Blog » Blog Archive » How To Write Testable ASP.NET UserControls
• Polymorphic View Using the ASP.NET MVC Framework as a JSON Service Provider for Richer Web Applications with MS Ajax Template

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Released - ScottGu's Blog
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #60 – How to load a XAML Control From a File or String - Silverlight Tips of the Day - Blog by Mi
• How to create a custom RadialPanel for Silverlight 2.0
• Printing in Silverlight 2 using CSS and ASP.NET AJAX 4
• Silverlight 2 Released New controls, tools, announcements! - Tim Heuer's Blog

Other

• Podcast #25 - Blog - Stack Overflow - interesting interview with Steve Yegge, Google. Google culture, programming languages - Joel bags VBScript (and tckl) ;-) , blogging to become immortal.
• Web 2.0 Expo NY Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Enterprise Radar
• Where is Your Username registered
• MSBuild Extension Pack - Home - collection of over 170 MSBuild tasks for the .net 3.5 framework
• http://www.codeplex.com/TaskService
• Dare To Dream Different Challenge - .NET Micro Framework
• The eyeballing game
• Steve Ballmer coming to Sydney 6th November

Singularity Watch

• Machines Edge Closer To Imitating Human Communication

Books to Read

• Amazon.com Framework Design Guidelines Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reuseable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microso
• Amazon.com Rapture for the Geeks When AI Outsmarts IQ Richard Dooling Books

Quotes

• "An engineer will endlessly tinker with a project as long as it's sitting in front of them. Endlessly" - rands (twitter)
• "There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something." —Thomas Edison