Announcements

• Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online
• Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008
• Update on the GDR that is coming for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Singularity Microsoft's Open Source Operating System
• Microsoft Sues to Defend Visual Studio Users

Management/Process

• Thoughts on the Decline and Fall of Agile
• 10 Ways to Save a Slipping Project Agile Software Development
• The Decline and Fall of Agile

Architecture

• patterns and practices Developer Center Home - I just happened by this website again
• Enterprise Search from Microsoft - WTF! ... but, but - not as good as our searchEngine ;-)
• Design Pattern Code Generator - Home

ASP.NET

• SEO starting guide for ASP.NET
• How Do I Embed an Image in an Email with ASP.NET The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
• Project Velocity
• Pluralsight - Screencast: Understanding ViewState in ASP.NET

jQuery

• 5 Tips for Better jQuery Code jQuery, Tutorial

Silverlight

• Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 - ScottGu's Blog
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 – New Silverlight 2 Web Site Clean Up Check List
• Movement and Collision Detection Developing Casual Games with Silverlight 2, Part 2

XML

• Large XML Files Processing and Indexing

Tools

• ZoomIt v2.2
• 21 Extensions to Make Firefox Work For You
• Apache log4net - Apache log4net Home - implemented this again for current project - it rocks!
• GitCasts
• RegExr Online Regular Expression Testing Tool
• 181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers
• Coding Horror - We Are Typists First, Programmers Second

Books

Amazon.com Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) For .NET Framework 3.5

Blog Blazers 40 Top Bloggers

Singularity Watch

• Race on to build world's first space elevator
• NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet
• Transcurve Transhumanism and the Singularity Science Saturday Dreaming of an Artificial Intelligence

Other

• Microsoft Second Shot Exam Offer 2008
• Linux Mint A better Ubuntu the Tux Geek
• Science fiction special The future of a genre
• Amazon EC2 on Windows
• Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'
• Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator the Multiverse Theory Cosmology
• Quarks, gluons and corroborating e=mc2 - Technology - theage.com.au

Funny...

• Moral Machines Dilbert Discovers the Singularity
• When Will the Floppy Disk Die as a Save Icon
• Andy Borowitz Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy