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The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development.

Expression videos

The Microsoft Expression Knowledge Centre has some videos on the Expression tools

DDD5 agenda

The agenda for DDD5 is available...

Microsoft Surface

The Microsoft Surface computing website...

and a video.

DDD5

Register now for DDD5. It is on June 30th, at Microsoft in reading, and it's free.

Silverlight physics

A Silverlight physics demo from Chris Cavanagh.

Popfly mashups

Popfly makes mashups easy. This one gets videos from soapbox and displays them in a video player. I didn't write any code, not a single line.

Silverlight reflector

A view source reflector tool for Silverlight

IanG on tap

Ian Griffiths on language choice

Bristol DotNetDevNet

Alex Homer gave a splendid talk, at Monday evening's .NET Developer Network meeting, on the Enterprise Library from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group.

He then went on to talk about Cross Cutting concerns, Aspect Oriented Programming and The Policy Injection Block.

As you can tell from all the links, this was a learning experience for me.

Javascript

Some javascript tips from Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan Hodgson

Popfly

Microsoft Popfly... online tools for building mashups.

Ajax view

Mike Ormond on Ajax View

Scratch

The BBC has a story on Scratch, another "programming for kids" tool, this one from MIT.

Free powershell book

A free download of a PowerShell book...

SilverlightPad

Silverlight Pad is a Silverlight 1.0 Beta application that gives you a simple way to experiment with creating XAML content--the XAML you enter can be instantly rendered as Silverlight content.

100 apps

A list of 100 web applications for freelancers.

The upside-down-ternet

I'm not sure whether to think this is real or not, but it sounds very convincing. The upside-down-ternet... a brilliant way to discourage your neighbours from stealing your wifi.

There are some very clever people about.

Scott Hanselman on Mix

Scott Hanselman's post on Mix, DLR and Silverlight