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The Best Websites for Kids Packed inside a Browser – Kido’Z – With that new computer, they have to go somewhere. Practical Family Nutrition: Just Eat the Food – Shocking news! Eat a variety foods...

There’s a great post on Stackoverflow about hidden features in C#. I prefer to think of these as idioms rather than hidden features since most are actually documented. Here are my favorites. From CLR via...

Don’t know how long this one is going to last but you can get a free commercial version of Parallels Workstation. Check out the link below. Parallels Workstation for Windows & Linux – Free Parallels...

Brad Abrams : Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release - This updated DataGrid contains almost 30 fixes to the top issues that we heard, including: Rows containing focus no longer disappear when the ItemsSource changes...

Dilbert comic strip for 12/14/2008 Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict – MPEG-4, 3D Support and hardware acceleration. I’m loving it. New Features in Windows Live Writer 2009...

Silverlight has no event for handling double-clicks. Here’s an excellent article detailing a way to add double click detection and handling by Andrea Boschin. While the code is acceptable, I couldn’t resist refactoring the code...

Head First Design Patterns : Steve Smith’s Blog – According to the reviewer, this seemingly light-weight book is actually a serious programming book. Who knew? Enhance Your Windows Vista Start Menu Search Functionality With Start++...

FreeSnap 1.5 includes these new features: Task switcher: Another task switcher? Yes, but this is faster and easier. No fancy thumbnails. It simply switches to the next/previous task. After all, do you want to go...

Friday Fun: Solve Puzzles to Help Out Scientists - Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins....

A group of us here in Ann Arbor, MI are organizing a monthly nerd lunch. The goal is to get local software developers together to talk tech… or whatever you want. Our lunches will be...