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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software

How to Customize/Change Windows 7 Logon Background Wallpaper Screen
(tags: win7 windows7 windows os customize)

SQL to Select a random row from a database table
(tags: sql random database programming reference db tips)

Built-in WPF IValueConverters - Stack Overflow
(tags: wpf converter)

diff/merge configuration in Team Foundation - common Command and Argument values - James Manning's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
(tags: TFS diff merge compare tools)

Windows 7 – VHD Boot – Setup Guideline - knom's developer corner - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
(tags: windows7 vhd microsoft windows virtualization)

MS Tech·Ed North Ameria has been running this week in New Orleans…

Watch the Tech·Ed videos online - The keynotes (1 and 2) have great insight into Microsoft’s vision; how their 7-year old promise of “Dynamic IT” is just beginning to be realized this past year and even more so with their Azure cloud computing platform, System Center 2010, and [...]

Most of us use Forrester, Gartner, and any number of other aggregated information hubs for reducing the communication clutter to make effective decisions. Forrester recently revamped their blogging strategy and platform to improve information access and updates. Inevitably, this social aspect of Forrester’s research will provide insight that wasn’t possible through the standard email alerts, [...]

MSF-Agile plus Security Development Lifecycle Process Template for VSTS 2008
MSF-A+SDL is a TFS process template that incorporates the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile process guidance into the MSF Agile development framework. With the MSF-A+SDL template, any code checked into the Visual Studio Team System source repository by the developer is analyzed to ensure that [...]

Multi-Touch for Windows 7
Emulate a touch screen without the screen! Multi-Touch is a user input management layer that handles input from various devices (touchlib, multiple mice, TUIO etc.) and normalises it against the scale and rotation of the target window.
(tags: multitouch touch multi-touch windows7 codeplex)

Infragistics Quince: UX Patterns Explorer
Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer.
(tags: patterns interface designpatterns userexperience interfaces usability ux ui gui webdesign development)

REBOL Technologies
Relative Expression Based Object Language: It uses "relative expressions" (lean, domain-specific languages) to create a powerful new method of creating Internet programs, scripts, and applications.
(tags: languages programming-languages programming development language framework)

Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies videos
A tv channel aimed at Microsoft Partners and Customers, devoted to Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies. Server, Desktop, Application and Presentation Virtualization, along [...]