Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology

• Multi Tenancy and Multi Tenancy - The Physical Data Model (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio .NET Platform Target Explained (Darren Stokes)
• Including the Batteries in IronPython (Harry Pierson)
• .NET Service Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• A Cry for Help with NHibernate (Joel Bennett)
• .NET Rocks! - Rocky Lhotka on CSLA .NET 3.5 (MS Downloads)
• IronPython - Release 2.0 Beta 4 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Hey Ma, I’m on TV! (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #30 - Create Custom Route Constraints (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend - Helping Designers and Developers Coexist Peacefully (Brian Hunter)
• Play Olympic Games in Silverlight (Tim Heuer)

Events / Community

• I Will Be Delivering My First Public-Facing Oslo Presentation Oct 8th in Amsterdam at the SOA Symposium (Brian Loesgen)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 (Vasudev)
• SQL Server 2008 RTM (Dan Rigsby) – Link of the Day
• SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2008 RTM Samples Are Up on CodePlex Now (David Reed)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface Order Form (MS Downloads) – Get ‘em while they’re hot!
• Microsoft’s Vision (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2008 and Innovation Notes: August 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for August 6, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Links (8/6/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• wsdac#14 - Monads for Imperative Language Programmers (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #153 (Chris Alcock)

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