DotNetCurry.com $38,000 Mega GiveAway

DotNetCurry.com is a developer/designer website that’s celebrating its fourth anniversary with a $38,000 GiveAway of .NET software, books and training.  The website features articles and tips on .NET, ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight, WPF, LINQ, Silverlight, Expression Web, Visual Studio,  C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Phone 7 etc.

DotNetCurry.com $38,000 Mega GiveAway

Microsoft Architecture Site Launched

Microsoft has launched a new software architecture website devoted to sharing best practices and customer stories. The site features case studies, video interviews, architect evangelist profiles, links to blog articles and a Twitter feed. 

If you are an architect or senior developer, this site will help you connect with your peers and learn more about patterns, model driven architecture and design, and the latest technology advancements to provide cutting edge solutions.

ASP.NET Website Upgraded

The official ASP.NET website has re-launched after a major upgrade:

• New site-wide design
• Redesigned Home page and Getting Started sections that streamline the experience for those who are new to ASP.NET
• Revised and updated content areas for both ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC
• Reviewed, re-categorized, and where appropriate, archived tutorial and video content

ASP.NET website
Scott Hanselman article
John Galloway article

CodePaste.NET Public Code Pasting Site

CodePaste.NET is a new public code pasting site that allows you to paste and link code from social network sites like Twitter and Facebook or chat and IM applications like Skype or Messenger.  The idea is that these social network or chat clients work well for interactive discussion, but they don’t allow enough space to post even the shortest snippets of code for all participants to see. 

A lot of Twitter traffic deals with discussions around code or code concepts, so a place to share and view code is very useful.  So rather than squeezing code snippets into these clients, you can post it on the the CodePaste.NET site and then link to the snippet.  As opposed to other code pasting sites, CodePaste.NET is more specific to .NET developers, providing syntax highlighting and the ability to apply comments on snippets.

CodePaste.NET

DotNetShoutout Competes with DotNetKicks

The .NET social news network DotNetKicks finally has some real competition: DotNetShoutout.  DotNetShoutout is a Web 2.0-style social news site for .NET developers running on the open source project KiGG.

The goal for DotNetShoutout was to implement a very loosely coupled application with Microsoft-supported technologies following the Domain Driven Design.  It is developed with:

• ASP.NET MVC Beta
• Linq To SQL
• MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
• MS Patterns & Practices – Unity
• jQuery