The weekly SyncToBlog: #3

Slightly delayed but pleasantly as random as #2.Time to split the list into dev stuff and not dev stuff :-)

Development Related

Code Contracts for Visual Studio – yep, pre and post conditions make mainstream (nearly).
Lightweight test automation framework for ASP.NET
Lightweight logging framework
State of the computer book market – part 4 caught my eye with a look at languages.

It is time IE6 went away to make our lives as developers that little bit easier. http://www.stoplivinginthepast.com/ aims to help us all do that.
A short summary of VB and C# and the issues with “ALT.NET frameworks” that go away with VS2010
Lots and lots of great posts on SQL Data Services + examples + a web based provisioning client
Great article on Geographic Visualisations with SQL 2008.
Its an old post – but I just needed it again - Debugging ADO.NET Data Services.

Other

We released a Technology Preview for Microsoft Recite (http://recite.microsoft.com). A search technology for your voice that runs on Windows Mobile devices. Store, search and retrieve the things you want to remember - and its free.
On the Twitter front:

There are various hash tag sites out there but http://hashtags.org/tag/aspnetmvc wins for me.
Wondering the type of folks who follow you on twitter? Wonder no more. http://twittersheep.com/results.php?u=ericnel looks at their BIOS.