.NET libraries supported in Silverlight 2.0 beta 2

In doing any research on silverlight capabilities, i always pull my hair out trying to figure which libraries and classes Silverlight’s condensed CLR supports.  Well, here is a great resource for it.

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Positive Effects of Silence

Interesting study on the negative effects of noise in an office space. Read this article if your interested in improving your work productivity: Office noise: Are your homicidal thoughts about your noisy office-mate justified?

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Who Will Rule The New Internet?

Excellent article about the future of Internet platforms. It feels good to be a part of history. Article is here

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Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor

“The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.” Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor. After all, in the midst of the competitive IDE space, mainly populated by …

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Scalable REST services in WCF

Scalable REST services in WCF

Introduction We’ve started to research how best to scale our WCF service, especially in the event of middleware failure that causes latency typical of IO activity. The problem that was initially found was that when an IIS hosted WCF service gets a request, the IIS worker thread handles the request and sends the work over …

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Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Very interesting developments that Microsoft is introducing to further integrate ASP.NET with LINQ and make simple CRUD operations a whole lot easier. Check out Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

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Yahoo! Pipes

Seems like a really cool way to build a very customized RSS feed. Check out Yahoo! Pipes. There is also a need video that shows how easy it is to set up a pipe.

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20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient

Found this on my boss’s blog. Thought it’d be useful to anyone reading. http://sixrevisions.com/tools/20_web_development_tools/

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Automatic deployments using TFS 2008

Although it is fun and dandy to do all development, deployments, and testing locally on our development boxes or, even better, within a VM on our dev boxes, all of us know that eventually when our proof of concept becomes a real-life project where we collaborate with other team members, show off the betas to …

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My MIX Theatrix

I had the pleasure of attending my first MIX conference last week. I never thought that at my first time at the conference, I’d actually be a presenter. I remember the first time i went to a different Microsoft conference, PDC, where I attended the presentations of renown technologists and wondered if I’d ever be …

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