Daily Links 21/01/2010

Silverlight - About validation when binding to custom forms
Silverlight: About validation when binding to custom forms - Part 2 using Silverlight 4

Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services

Silverlight 4's New Notification Windows

If you only need to unzip files in silverlight
If you need zip compression as well

Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher

Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective

TFS Branching Guide 2010

Free Todo List Application
Ideal for maintain programming task list (as well as more general stuff)
What I found quite handy was the ability to group tasks, and stop \ start timers on a task level.

Daily Links 04/01/10

Local file access in Silverlight 4

Bing Maps in Silverlight
Geo-Coding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight

Duplex WCF Bindings in Silverlight

Falling Snow in Silverlight

Silverlight's Big Image Problem (and What You Can Do About It)

Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping

POCO Proxies Part 1

The PowerShell of the Future

Kanban vs Scrum
alternative to scrum when business needs change so frequently, you can't commit to sprint goals without them changing mid-sprint