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DevReach 2007 is now open for registration. Last year DevReach had a huge success, being the first one to gather all international speaker stars in Microsoft community.

The motion picture industry insures completion of their motion pictures via a performance bond, where an insurance company guarantees satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor. Laurent Bossavit ruminated (try pasting http://www.bossavit.com/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=293 directly into your web browser because direct linking doesn’t work) on what it would take to do the same for software project….

Full Post: InfoQ.com 

Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable.  Here’s mine.  Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week.  For me, util means utilitarian and it means don’t clutter my tray.  If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it’s the bomb. Many/most are free some aren’t. Those that aren’t free are very likely worth your 30-day trial, and perhaps your money.

Full Post: Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Most software architects take for granted the things that Dan Pritchett had to give up when he went to work for eBay. Take transaction control and foreign key constraints, for instance. While every architect has to execute some sort of balance between design purity an pragmatic realities, eBay’s scale take that to an extreme…

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eil will host a CF.NET chat on Skype the next Wednesday, Aug 29 2007 from 6:00 pm to 7:00pm (London)
CF.NET team members, MVPs and epxerts will hang out there. if you have device development questions this is the place to find the answers.

You may enter the chat at http://chat.opennetcf.com

Click here to update your Outlook calendar

The Bulgarian timeframe of the chat is from 20:00h to 21:00h

Check out the Neil’s announcemnet for few more details.

Source: Ruslan Trifonov blog

Greg Leake does a review of StockTrader on Channel9.  Check it out.

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