If you are like me playing around Silverlight, and want to try the latest and greatest tools for development, don’t wait any longer head over to the Visual Studio 2010 Express website and download the beta 2 version of the express edition of 2010
Don’t forget you can download this and start playing around with the coolest tech ever (Silverlight, WPF, Astoria data services etc)
No excuse anymore for writing programs with outdated tools.
Some good links to getting started with Silverlight, its easier this this much information online
The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site
The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site for getting started
Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern explained
Jason Dolinger on Model-View-ViewModel
Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services
The amount of data in and out of the inter tubes this days seems astronomical but its just little pieces of nothing compared to what is coming our way.
I just got this supper tiny desktop the other day, got the cheapest version of the Fit PC2 that was available, came with almost everything except a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive, which is was cool because I have a few laying around, now I have to install an OS using a bootable USB drive, and it should be ready go function as a small server
FIT PC box, this this is supper tiny pc
Came with an HDMI out port, no wireless but has 1000 baseT RJ45 ethernet
Plenty of USB ports
1 GB memory directly attached to the board, and space for the hard disk, (the only moving part)
Windows Live Writer pluging: Sharper Photo, is featured in the Windows Live Writer site: http://www.live-writer.net/, I was very happy to see this, as a featured plugin in this site, I had no Idea how many people use this plugin, the download site for Sharper Photo currently marks about 1390 downloads, hopefully its been helpful to many more people out there.
![Sharper Photo featured plugin[4]](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_RtCJVF3NJ5w/StCy6KwwJ7I/AAAAAAAAJok/M-gChyZc2rA/Sharper%20Photo%20featured%20plugin%5B4%5D%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800 "Sharper Photo featured plugin[4]")
Also remember that if you think this plugin can be improved in any way, let me know.
Out there in the inter tubes, I found a blog post a talking a little bit a about the little windows live writer plugin that I made (Sharper Photo).
it’s nice to see that other people have benefited from using this plugin, which allows you to edit the photos you insert in live writer using your favorite image editor, Hope to see more reviews like this in the future as I made more improvements to this little plugin.
If you have an idea of how this plugin can be improve please let me know, thanks.
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Its called PhotoSketch and it looks like the coolest thing ever for creating better looking sketches, you have to see the video to believe it.
