The smart folks from the Patterns & Practices group have released some application archtecture guides to help folks building Microsoft RIA (Silverlight) and Web applications. For a look at the RIA pocket guide, have a look at JD Meier's post here...

Thanks to David Lymburner for putting this list together. Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK 1.2 Brief Description The Windows Live™ ID Web Authentication software development kit (SDK) gives you a platform-neutral way to bring the power...

Back in march I wrote about a great Silverlight 2 OnlineBanking demo. At the time the code was based on Silverlight 2 beta 1. Marley Gray sent out a note to the silverlight discussions alias that it has been updated to Silverlight 2 RTM bits. You can...

Latest web downloads from Microsoft ... thanks to David Lymburner. Cheers, Hans Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP Brief Description Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable...

As an American who was born and raised in Chicago (currently living in Toronto) I can't tell you how great I feel to today. Wow Look at Grant Park... How proud I am of Chicago... Way to go America !!!! Way to go Chicago. Obama is the next US President...

http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/10/31/top-web-20-online-news-and-reviews-collaborative-monitoring-and-analysis-site-application-for-ceo%E2%80%99s-and-entrepreneurs/ Nice to see Feedables at number 23. I homestead a feedables site called riafeeds. It attempts...

Phil Haack Sr. Program manager for the ASP.NET MVC team presented at the PDC. You can watch it on here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC21/ I really liked his HaackedOverflow demo and the nice interative flow of development. He even demos OpenID...