Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Miscellaneous

• Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• Programmers – Start ‘em Young? (Joe Stagner)
• Small Software – Big Impact (Jesse Liberty)
• Schools of Software Development (Martin Fowler)
• Everything I Know About Code Reviews I Learnt From Star Wars (and JCooney) (Leon Bambrick)
• CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating (Dan Bunea) – Agile Mini Book

Blogging

• bTweets (Twitter) and bTittleTattle (FriendFeed) Apps (sobees)
• Welcome to the New TRT (Jay Kimble)
• EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin Release v3.2 (CodePlex)
• Blogging Extension for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• GroupTweet Enhances Twitter (Mike Gunderloy)

Web Development

• Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer (adventurer)
• Silverlight Gems (Jesse Liberty)
• Most Useful 50 CSS Tips and Tools for Webmasters (Emma Alvarez)

.NET

• Printing with WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Unity Community Contributions and Interception (Matthew Podwysocki)
• LINQ with DataReaders (devprime)
• A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Two (Will)
• SubSonic 2.1 Beta 3 Release (CodePlex)
• LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 1: Building the Middle Tier (Beth Massi)
• IUpdatable & ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Pratik Patel)
• Writing Your First WCF Client (Sahil Malik)

Events/Community

• VSLive Orlando Coming Soon! (Rocky Lhotka)
• Where You Can Find Me This Spring (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Thank You North Carolina (Brad Abrams)

Visual Studio

• Simpler Code Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• PowerCommands 1.1 Released (vsxteam)
• Spec# for Visual Studio 2005 v1.0.20411 (MS Research)
• p&p – Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Release (CodePlex)

PowerShell

• The SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Joel Bennett)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-11) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2008 – #250 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 11, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• New and Notable 233 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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