Notable Events

Obviously the biggest event of the week was the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.  Every developer blogger around the globe will be busting at the seems with PDC goodness, but I guess the best place to go is the site itself and download yourself some of the sessions - there's something for everyone.

...and it looks like the marketing guys gave us a new .Net logo

PDC Announcements

As you'd imagine there were announcements aplenty, here is just a slice of what was announced ....

• Windows Azure - Cloud Services Platform
• Manuvir Das gives a good introduction to Windows Azure on Channel 9
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
• ASP.NET 4.0 Preview
• MS Suface SDK 1.0
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster
• Live Mesh Beta

Architecture

• ASP.NET Patterns every developer should know
• Enterprise Library 4.1(October 2008) released
• nPlus1.org - a great blog site for architecture based articles
• Software + Services The Greater Sum - microsoft's new software services site

UI

• Matt Berseth iTunes Data Grid Skin
• Rapid Change in Design The Changing Landscape & New Rules for Design Project - some fantastic slides that show how we should be thinking about design

Silverlight

• New Silverlight controls suite delivered by Microsoft #PDC08
• Silverlight Tools for SP1
• Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 2

jQuery

• jQuery intellisense available in Visual Studio - Tanzim Saqib
• JQuery Primer – Part 1

Tools

• Fiddler Web Debugger - A free web debugging tool
• Jing Project Visual - looks to be a useful image/video capturing tool, definitely worth a look (although chewed up loads of memory for me)

WCF

Been doing some work with WCF this week, and here are some of the better links/screencasts I've been using ...

patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security Guide - Home

• endpoint.tv Screencast - Creating Your First WCF Service cliff.simpkins Channel 9
• endpoint.tv Screencast - Configuring Services with Endpoints cliff.simpkins Channel 9]
• Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation site

• Singularity Watch

• Scientists make cat that glows in the dark - Telegraph - now we can do anything
• Building Gods - if you are a singularity enthusiast and haven't yet seen this - watch it, you will like
• Space networks

Books

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reuseable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams

Coding4Fun 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More

Other

• DevMavens Influential Software Developers
• CodeProject Solving complex parsing tasks with RegexTreeer
• TED Talks List - some great viewing in here if you get bored of watching reality tv ;-)
• Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals
• 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have
• World of Goo - impossibly awesome physics problem solving game
• Top Tech Jobs for 2012 - this is what our kids will be doing, cleaning up after the 20th century party mess.
• Social networking – good for small business

Quotes

Purpose of Incorporation : "To establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their hearts content" - Masaru Ibuka, Sony