My friend Mitsu just posted a funny demo about what you can do in the Visual Studio designer. He made a kind of Pong, remember that old game!, just using the Visual Studio designer. Useless but so much fun!
It was based on Silverlight, so it is not anymore available.
This is an interessting video about the plugin eclipse4SL from Soyatec.
This plugin allows Eclipse / Java developers to build RIA with Silverlight and collaboration between Web Designers, .NET Developers and Java Developers.
With a very nice timing Microsoft team just published ASP.NET MVC RC !
We started over Christmas a migration of our .NET French Portal, Tech Head Brothers, to ASP.NET MVC. We had lots of fun and a great experience to be able to do collocated pair programming over that time.
As announced on the jQuery blog, “jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation”, jQuery for it third anniversary goes to release 1.3 with the following features: <li>Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine. </li> <li>Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist. </li> <li>jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling. </li> <li>HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending. </li> <li>Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation. </li> <li>No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.</li>