Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

This is mostly a "catch up" post, so there may be a few items not exactly "new"

Windows Azure

• New training kit for Azure & Identity - The team have been heads down on PDC hands on labs for Azure (there are 13 new labs) as well as a new Channel 9 course for the Windows Azure Platform as well as an update for the training kit. Sadly, the Nov update for the Azure training kit may be out of date already as my experiments with it show that namespaces and classes have changed since it was published so beware.
• Introducing Windows Azure Diagnostics - This post from 11/18 has Sumit introducing the new Windows Azure diagnostic feature introduced with the latest release (November 2009) of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK.
• Windows Azure Walkthrough: Simple Logging - Sumit then creates a new Cloud Service project using and look at the wiring that is done automatically to make Windows Azure Diagnostics, and specifically simple logging, work
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/2/2009+ - Latest in the series

Software

• Tools We Use - A nice list from John Robbins of Wintellect
• Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2 beta in the wild! - Krzysztof Kozmic highlights the beta release of the Castle Project Dynamic Proxy 2.2. This release includes over 40 changes from the 2.1 release including support for Silverlight, along with some impressive performance improvements due to better caching, along with a lot more
• JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Announced - John Resig announces the code complete alpha

Presentations

• PDC09: ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips - Scott Hanselman talks about his PDC presentation and how to get it in various formats
• PDC and Tech-Ed Europe Slides and Code - Stephen Walther collects up his ASP.NET Ajax and MVC talks slides and code
• Announcing Pluralcast: Pluralsight's .NET Podcast - Aaron announces the addition of Pluralsight to the .NET podcast list
• Some of my Recent Entity Framework 4 content - Julie has been really busy. This post collects up her latest articles, webcasts, screencasts and blog content on the Entity Framework 4
• PDC 2009 - .NET Developers Short Review and Bleeding Edge Downloads - In one post, Lars walks through all the PDC content, providing some details plus the coresponding downloads for each!

Oslo

• "Quadrant": Three Features in Two Minutes - Doug Purdy presents a ~2 minute screencast on "Quadrant", showing 3 key new features
• "MURL": A DSL for RESTFul clients (Nov. 2009 CTP) - MURL has been updated to the latest CTP