Announcements

• LIDNUG ScottGu talks shop with developers on LinkedIn Events
• Victoria .Net Meeting 12th MAy
• What's on at Remix 09 Sydney Australia

Development

• Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean
• Lean and Agile Marriage Made in Heaven or Oxymoron
• Contracts for Agile Software Development
• Ampersand GT - Scott Bellware - Software Product Design, Development, and Direction
• Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree - Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
• 2009 - A Year of Learning (so far)
• A Tale of Two Communities NetObjectives - Kaban software development
• 8 Must Have Tools when Going to the Client’s Site Hatim's Development Blog
• The 7 Phases of Unit Testing

WPF

• WPF Practical Solutions

WCF

• MSDN Webcast geekSpeak Windows Communication Foundation as the New .NET with Juval Lowy (Level 200)
• WCF Load Test - Home
• wcfstorm - Home
• Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog Configuring HTTP for Windows Vista
• Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings WCF Authentication Custom Username and Password Validator
• WCF Security Best Practices – OWASP

Utilities

• It’s the Tests » Blog Archive » Ten Reasons to Try NUnit 2,5
• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects - Rick Strahl's Web Log
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET projects, Part 1 Just Build It! (A Simple Build Configuration) Elegant Code
• Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)

Web/Silverlight

• SilverZine - Silverlight resource for Designers
• Nikhil Kothari's Weblog Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight
• Dave Glover Down Under (Oz) Perth SDDN .NET RIA Services Event Follow up
• asp.net – security. 10 helpful pointers

Architecture

• NHibernate – The difference between Get, Load and querying by id
• CodeThinked Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer
• Mike Taulty's Blog Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil -)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class - All Your Base Are Belong To Us
• Software Is Hardwork Marker Interfaces Are Just Metadata

Books

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold

Singularity Watch

• MIT teams finding many uses for graphene, the newest form of carbon
• Transcendent Man Wows At Tribeca Film Festival Premier
• Five futurist visionaries and what they got right
• Ray Kurzweil A singular view of the future

Other

• Google named best place to work in Australia
• Dime Casts.Net -- Inform and Educate in ~10 Minutes or Less - Func and Action
• Dime Casts.Net -- Inform and Educate in ~10 Minutes or Less - ReSharper 4.5 Navigation
• F# Stuff I get confused about at Mark Needham