Can’t Link, Won’t Link #3

ASP.NET

Oxite, ASP.NET MVC-based Blog – Video from the peeps at Channel9 and some code they put together :)

3 New Hands-On Virtual Labs for ASP.NET – Covering ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SP1, Developing ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Introduction to ASP.NET MVC.

How to create nested master pages in VS2008? – Title says it all :)

Community

New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all – Dubbed “Pirates of the Amazon”, while inappropriate I thought it was an interesting concept (certainly sparked some discussion for me on Twitter). Sadly, it has already hit the rocks.

40 Ways to deliver killer blog content – as always, Chris Brogan offers good advice, I need to take a lot of this on board.
Twitter needs two Channels – Chris Brogan brings another good article about making Twitter a more useful platform/system for all concerned.

Don’t be afraid of people better than you - @SaraJChipps writes a good article on why we should deal with the fact some people are better than us, and then learn from them.

Development

Advice on partitioning code through assemblies – Patrick Smacchia offers his thoughts on how and when to create a new assembly for your code.

A fluent approach to C# parameter validation – Great article by the guys who bring you Paint.NET, the awesome free paint-replacement application (and then some).

What is a good test? - Sarah Taraporewalla offers her thoughts.

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