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General

• Getting Started with Domain-Driven Design: Rob Conery begins his journey into DDD with the MVC Storefront.
• Contributions to the Entity Framework Community: For being the next big thing, there’s very little information available on the power hiding under the hood of the Entity Framework. To fill in the gap, Zeeshan Hirani has put together more than 500 pages worth of information on the topic!
• Advices On Partitioning Code Through .NET Assemblies: Patrick Smacchia has some good pointers on when to, and when not to, create new assemblies in your projects.

Web Development

• Oxite: Microsoft has released Oxite, an open source content management system built on top of ASP.NET MVC.In addition to being an awesome example of what you build using MVC, Oxite has already been battle tested hosting MIX Online.
• ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo Using the Spark View Engine: Phil Haack demonstrates the Spark view engine using the Northwind database.
• 3 Reasons Why You Should Let Google Host jQuery For You: Dave Ward explains how to use Google’s ample resources to speed up your web site.
• Google Chrome (BETA): From a company that redefined ‘beta’, Google has announced that Chrome graduated out of beta in a mere 100 days!