Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :)   ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices WCF Security Practices at a Glance Now Available Weekly SOA crumbs #16: Links on Service orientation, cloud computing and ESB’s Software Development The Weekly Source Code 26 - LINQ

Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations Using ADFS LINQ/ADO.NET Next LINQ to Active Directory (formerly known as LINQ to LDAP) is here Entity Providers Update ADO.NET Data Services and Idempotence Domain Driven Design Nice fundamentals

ASP.NET/.NET 3/CardSpace/WCF My good friend, Michele Bustamante, returned from DevConnections with her usual slew of great demos: Introduction to C# 3.0 C# 3.0 Samples ADO.NET 3.5 Samples Exploring Windows CardSpace Cardspace Samples ASP.NET and WCF: Meet Your New Web Service See code from my book Learning WCF posted here See my webcast series on WCF for MSDN ScottGu begins a series of posts on ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) Software Development Tools NAntBuilder 1.1 [via Mike ] Snippet Editor for