Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology

• Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure… or an Opportunity? (Bob McIlree) - Link of the Day
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 2 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Object Oriented Programming Has Failed Us (Dave M. Bush)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Logging Application Block and Unity Screencast - EntLib 4.0 (David Hayden)
• MvcContrib 0.0.1.117 Released to Match ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Brazilian Waxing, Choosing a JavaScript Framework and Why I Don’t Like ASP.NET AJAX (Peter Eysermans)

.NET / Visual Studio

• BackgroundWorker, Closure and Overridable Task (Patrick Smacchia)
• Coding Style Per Project (Sergio Pereira)
• Open Source Software in C# (via dzone)
• Announcing Visual Studio MythWeek!! (Nandita)
• How to Write a Terminal Services Add-In in Pure C# (Selvin)
• WCF Visualizers - Release v1.6 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Bindable LINQ 1.0 Beta 1 (Paul Stovell)
• LINQ to SQL with WCF in a Multi Tiered Action - Part 2 (Sidar Ok)

SQL Server

• Just Say No to Manual CRUD (Russell Ball)
• SQL Server Programming Hacks (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Understanding the Crawler Architecture in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Bill English)
• Where to Deploy My Silverlight XAP File? (Patrick Tisseghem)
• Even If Your PC Once Didn’t Support Datasheet View, It May Do So Later (Mike Walsh)

Miscellaneous

• Amiga Forever 2008: What’s New (via dzone)
• Welcome to Acrobat.com - Work. Together. Anywhere. (Erik Larson) - Adobe re-branding a number of its online beta offerings under the Acrobat name.
• Adobe Pushes Acrobat Into Online Office Space Against Microsoft, Google (Eric Lai)
• Adobe Acrobat Takes Big Online Leap (Elsa Wenzel)
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Launched (Cristian)
• FlixPulse: Twitter Movie Reviews (Matthew Hurst)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Link Post 44 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (6/1/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 1, 2008 — #288 (Dave Campbell)
• Finds of the Week - May 31, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #105 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing - June 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Awesome Toy of the Day