AgDLR 0.5 – Harry Pierson highlights the release of AgDLR 0.5, which is an integration between the Dynamic Language Runtime languages and Silverlight. These languages are currently IronRuby and IronPython, and this release includes support for Silverlight 3 beta
The Tarantino Project – Database Change Management – Rob Reynolds takes a look at the Tarantino Project, a tool for use from NAnt which deals with database changes allowing you to keep your databases up to date easily
ViewState 101 – Tony Lombardo goes back to first principles on a classic pain point for Web Forms applications, the viewstate, looking at why it exists, how it works and what can be done about making it smaller
Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine – Jeremy D. Miller plugs his latest MSDN Magazine column which takes a look at the less well understood data acess patterns such as active record, data mapper, repositories, etc
Silverlight Cream – I’m not going to be covering Silverlight in huge detail, just linking to the od article I find interesting. If Silverlight is something you care about I suggest you also subscribe to this Blog which does an excelent daily post rounding up all the best Silverlight news and articles
Tip of the Day #9 (The Project Location Is Not Trusted) – Colin Angus Mackay shares a useful tip about not trusted locations and how Windows uses the alternate file stream to store information about the security of items downloaded from the internet