The new nibbles tutorials site is a great display of what Silverlight can do as well as a great way to learn some of the basics of how to create Silverlight content.

My buddy in Phoenix Tim Heuer posted about a new Silverlight game that he helped\witnessed get created called Zero Gravity. What I liked was his description of the tools used and workflow between designer and developer. Read it all on his post silverlight: who needs inertia, introducing lt. bennett

I can't take any of the credit for the two new articles that were posted on how to work with WSS 3.0 as a developer other then to say I was one of the many who said WTF to the documentation about it.

Over all the articles don't make WSS development pushbutton but at least this documents the process much better. I hope you find them as good of a read as I did.

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)
Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 2)

The content for the mobility touchdown events that I was at in Los Angeles and Las Vegas has been updated and is available for download from Q4Tech's web site at Mobility touchdown content. If you attended any of the events around the world you will want to get the final content as all the bugs were fixed as the content was bending given.

For a review of what the Mobility touchdown events were see the MSDN blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitytouchdown.

Just incase you had not seen this back in November Q4Tech released to CodePlex an implementation of the Patterns & Practices Mobile Updater Application Block. I have seen it used and it's quite feature complete, I hope to have my line of business application demo back online soon and have it using this block.

A area of development that miss not working with as often as I would like is programming for Windows CE. I did a lot of development for CE with the Compact Framework before I joined Microsoft and have contented to develop some small proof of concept applications to show what is possible but as always if not part of your day to day job you tend not to keep up and that is where I am at with this (and many other) topic.

I recently found the HopperRX blog that has a bunch of good advice and tools to help develop applications for CE I hope it can help any of you keep up as well.

This was an interesting article with a  report that shows some statistics on who in the world is blogging... quite strange to see how much I don't have in common with other bloggers. Such is life I have always been an outsider. 

Advertising Age - Digital - Who Blogs?

My fellow DE Kirk Allen has a good list of items that develops should consider getting up to speed on and the reasons for it.

Check it out in his blog post What Technologies Should I Focus On?

This weekend I went on the last on the years Indian Guide camp out and while it all sounds corny it's a great program and always a good time with my Son Max. One of the long staining traditions for the last camp out is to have a "chariot" race where the boys pull the chef of the tribe. Well this year I was the chef and the boys pulled but the chariot did not hold up to my fat a@@. You can see the picture below where I earned the award for best face plant! But even with this Max and I had a great time! :)

I don't know how you lean best but I love using the web with live presentations as a way to lean about stuff that I want to learn about to see if I really want to dig in to. Well this upcoming web cast look quite interesting to me so I got them to open it to the world so join me in learning some new stuff!

Live Meeting: The Power of Predictive Analytics at Every Desktop

SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Excel 2007

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