Small Basic – A new Labs project from Microsoft labs, Small Basic has been in development on and off for a year. The idea behind Small Basic is to bring the fun and simplicity of writing code back, recapturing the fun and easy we used to program on the early 8bit home computers.
Encapsulation: Entities, Collections And Business Rules – Derick Bailey talks about encapsulation of business rules in your business entities, rather than letting the functionality out into controllers or forms, and shows a solution to the problem.
New MassTransit Screencast and Sample – Chris Patterson shares a screencast on the WebServiceBridge sample in MassTransit, showing how it works, and how it makes low coupling possible in web services for the publish / subscribe functionality.
Application Idle – DaveyM69 looks at techniques to detect when a WinForms application is idle (for the purposes of logging a user out) in this Code Project Article.
ASP.NET: Alternatives to Dynamic Controls – Part 2 – Adam Pooler continues his series looking at alternatives to creating controls dynamically in code, looking in this part at persisting values between postbacks.
TODO.txt 2008 Ultimate Team Edition – Tobin Harris talks about his favourite way of achieving Collaborative Issue Management – use a text file as it ticks a lot of the boxes for such a requirement.