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Coffee in hand, the Clash is playing, here we go

BizTalk/WCF/BizTalk WCF Adapters

• Aaron has This short demo which illustrates how to take advantage of the message template feature made available by WCF send ports in BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

Design Patterns/PAG/Software Architecture

• PAG continues to do an excellent job getting Pattern resources to the community with the Guidance Explorer. As J.D. Meirer writes, "This is a significant release for Guidance Explorer (GE).  Our online "guidance store" is now hosted on MSDN.  To take advantage of this, you need to download the new version of Guidance Explorer (release 20071206)"
• Blaine writes about shipping a new version of the Web Client Software Factory in Jan/Feb 2008

ASP.NET MVC

• Phil thanks the community for helping to do his job and points a bunch of nice posts

Other link blogs
James Avery - Good Stuff #4
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for December 11, 2007
Steve Pitrek - Links (12/11/2007)
Technovangelist - Links for 2007-12-11 [del.icio.us]
Jason Haley - Interesting Finds - December 12, 2007
Mike Gunderloy - The Daily Grind 1293