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orand

  1. @dcoolidge Silverlight's not dying. The comments have more accurate news than the article does.
  2. Just discovered Prowl for iPhone and its .NET API. Very cool! http://prowl.weks.net
  3. @dcoolidge thanks, I'd seen the Double Rainbow Song but hadn't seen the original yet.
  4. Downtown Anchorage double rainbow. So intense. #doublerainbow http://yfrog.com/myucgoj
  5. Just drove past my old place of work and saw a guy running a leaf blower in the rain. Maybe he's drying the grass so he can water it.
  6. @akcoder I believe there's offline checkout with TFS commandline tools. Or you could use SVNBridge to begin with
  7. Visual Studio Solution Navigator is an amazing new replacement for Solution Explorer http://j.mp/9vhkam
  8. the Live Framework returns as Windows Live Messenger Connect http://j.mp/bVCl88
  9. @akcoder http://j.mp/cWxQxo "develops complex software architectures"... I now blame the system's complexity on the job description ;-)
  10. the first Windows Phone 7 developer devices start shipping next month http://j.mp/aohoHP
  11. Evil alert: ETS is installing a product that does man-in-the-middle cert spoofing and monitoring for all SSL connections.