Notable Events

• Obama wins the American election - w00t!
• Viewed wins Melbourne Cup
• Steve Ballmer rocks into Sydney to address developers

News Flash - End of LiNQ to SQL!?

This week there was a lot of speculation around the future of LINQ to SQL, here are just a few of the links in the blogo-sphere...

• ADO.NET team blog Update on LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities Roadmap
• LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home! - David Hayden [MVP C#]
• InfoQ Is LINQ to SQL Truly Dead

Management/Process

• Microsoft produces a paper on distributed agile development
• Handling subsystem branching
• a good Agile retrospective

Architecture

• .Net Provider Pattern - Designing decoupled and extensible Component for .Net Application
• Becoming more architecturally aware - part 2

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 13

ASP.NET MVC

• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC by Phil Haack

Silverlight

• Silverlight MVVM + dependency injection « Burela’s house-o-blog
• Shane Morris UXB Announcing Silverlight 'Artists in Residence' - Melbourne 1-5 December
• AutoCompleteBox control Worker Threads - Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
• Martin Grayson Adventures of a 'Devigner' Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!
• Jeff Prosise's Blog Introducing the Silverlight Enigma Simulator - this should have won a prize at devsta ;-)

WCF

• WCF endpoint screencasts - I've been watching a few of these recently - v.good
• StockTrader sample app - lots of good code to wade through in here
• Is WCF the Death of .NET

Singularity Watch

• Singularity Summit 2008 Reviewed 
• Brain-only Computer Interfaces Becoming Reality
• Solar power game-changer 'Near perfect' absorption of sunlight, from all angles
• Scientists Identify Machinery that Helps Make Memories
• Scientists clone from frozen mice
• Invention Self-replicating materials

Other

• LINQ Cheat Sheet
• Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective
• Designing decoupled and extensible Component for .Net Applications
• Announcing BizSpark for early stage startups
• Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution Research Reports
• Perth & Webjam9 in a tree

Books

Silverlight 2 Unleashed

Quotes

"Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience" —John Gruber