Dot Net Monkey

Over on CodePlex there is a free guide to developing with TFS. Looks like a How To / Best Practice kind of document.  I'm currently using TFS in my current work engagement, however, I'm pretty sure we are not using it as it was intended. 

Maybe it's time to download and read this guide.

http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/It looks like Apress is offering 8 free electronic books from their webiste.  Good on 'em!

via Ohad's Weblog: 8 Free E-Books from APress

I thought I'd keep a list of articles I 've come across and want to add to my reading list for all those times I'm sitting around with nothing to do. Yeah right!.  To stop this list from dropping off the bottom of my blog I'm going to add it to the navigation bar so I'll always have it at hand.

.NET Development

• A low-level look at the ASP.NET Architecture - This online article looks at how Web requests flow through the ASP.NET framework from a very low level perspective, from Web Server, through ISAPI all the way up the request handler and your code. See what happens behind the scenes and stop thinking of ASP.NET as a black box.
• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idionms, and Patters for Reusable .NET Libraries - This book seems to have had some great reviews and looks like it could be a one of those books that really helps teach some new valuable techniques.
• Practical .Net2 and C#2: Harness the Platform, the Language, the Framework - It's quite a title, huh?!? It's been getting some fairly good reviews and may be a good reference for me to move up to the v2 world.
• Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - Another book that has gotten good reviews... looks doubtful if it covers v2 in great detail.

Agile Development

• The Art of Agile Development - "Our aim is to make an intensely practical book that shows mainstream development teams how to adopt, use, and ultimately master the art of agile software development."