Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• Next Generation Web Applications (Dino Esposito)
• The Offline Wars About to Heat Up? (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft About to Reveal Web Apps Strategy? (Steve Clayton)

.NET

• Json.NET 2.0 Beta 2 (James Newton-King)
• Interesting LINQ Bits (David Vidmar)
• Layering MMC 3.0 Snap-Ins on Top of Windows PowerShell (Bart De Smet)
• Reusable Generic Directory Poller Utility Class for .NET (Troy DeMonbreun)

Blogging

• Keyvan and His Feed - Last Episode (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 10 Best Twitter Tools for Wordpress Blogs (QTO)

SQL Server

• Great SQL Server Blogs (Rhonda Tipton)
• Is It Important to Declare Your Columns as NOT NULL (Simon Sabin)
• The Requirements Are Always Wrong, or, Iterative Database Development (Kenneth Downs)

Silverlight/WPF

• How To: High Performance Graphics in WPF (Tamir Khason)
• Silverlight in SharePoint (Sahil Malik)
• Design Tip for Developers - Proper Color/Alpha Values in Gradients (Dax Pandhi)

Misc

• 8+ Ways to Train Yourself to Be Creative (Travis Wright)
• Recommended Book: Advanced Windows Debugging (Jason Zander)
• Google’s Engineering Philosophy (Alex Chitu)
• No Surprise Here - Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
• Focusing on Design (James Avery)
• Microsoft Preps StartKey: A “Windows Comanion” on a USB Stick (Mary Jo Foley)
• FastCompany.TV Launches (Robert Scoble)
• Unit Testing, Playing Tennis, and the Lack of Absolutes in TDD (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Does It Take to Become a Grandmaster Developer? (Jeff Moser)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 31 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Crumbs #9 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Link Listing - March 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #44 (Chris Alcock)
• 2 Links Today (2008-03-02) (Matt Hinze)

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