Scrum

Scrum addin for VSTS

TDD video

Test Driven development on .Net Rocks TV

A number of things

1. A collection of Vs2005 C# Code snippets

2. An Ajax programming community ... with some very impressive links including one where you can drive around Seattle or San Fransisco

3. Continuous Integration with VSTS

4. Anthem.Net Ajax toolkit for ASP.NET

5. The "Most Interesting Technical Podcast " award goes to Hanselminutes

6. Video game development. Learn to write C# the fun way. If you have time

7. ScottGu's link to ASP.NET 2.0 videos online and on Security resources

8. MCTS in Sql Server 2005

Microsoft Certified

Hooray! I just passed my first Microsoft certification exam, on Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.

This means I am now a Microsoft Certified Professional.

ClustrMaps

Just added a free ClustrMap to the blog template.

Google China Blog

The Google China Blog

eBooks

8 free books from Apress (via Jackie Goldstein)

Developer Day 3

The agenda for the third Microsoft Developer Day at Reading is already looking good.

Nice screen

Multi Touch Interaction Research

There would be a lot of fingerprints on the screen though...

Saving the world, step 1

We recently celebrated our first 100 kilowatts of solar photovoltaic electricity...


from our upgraded roof...

BBC Climate Change experiment

Donate your computer's idle time to the BBC Climate Change Experiment.

Uncyclopedia

The truth about Extreme programming from Uncyclopedia

Egoless

I currently have 451 ego points. Compared to some people that is no ego at all.

AJAX Translator

This is very nice...

An AJAX translator.

English
Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

German
"Brillig Twas und die slithy toves taten gyre und gimble im wabe"

French
"Le brillig de Twas et les toves slithy ont fait le gyre et gimble dans le wabe"

Not bad.

4 unrelated links

1. More Nuggets from MSDN UK .

2. Microsoft listens to feedback on it's misleading TDD item.

3. Martin Fowler on agility.

4. 10 things about WPF from Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells.
(I think WPF is a terrible acronym.)

India

My job went to India

Excellent idea, don't know if it's a good book though.

TDD

Microsoft fails to understand Test Driven Development.

Kids Programming Language

KPL.

This looks quite impressive. A bit more graphical and fun than LOGO.

VS 2005 and Firefox

If you have Firefox as your default browser when you install VS2005 and then you notice that VS2005 is trying to run Firefox all the time then look at this.

With 'File-Browse with' you can set the browser you want. Changing your default browser after installing doesn't seem to inform VS2005.

Yipee!

Currently downloading VS 2005 Prfessional Edition... 3 hours to go.