Pick of the week: All Programming is Web Programming

General

• Windows 7 – The Best Vista Service Pack Ever: Jeff Atwood shares his thoughts on the recently RTM’d Windows 7 and how it is significant in an ecosystem where stubborn/uninformed businesses continue to run a 9 year old OS.
• Windows API Code Pack V1 Released: Hot on the heels of the Windows 7 RTM is the Windows API Code Pack, which lets managed code easily take advantage of the new features of Vista & Windows 7.
• Open Source Is Not A Zero-Sum Game: Nate Kohari responds to criticism over his releasing an open source project.
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know About Windows 7: Scott Hanselman has a great list of tips & tricks for developing on Windows 7.
• My Ideal IDE: Jimmy Bogard blogs about his ideal IDE where the emphasis is on the code editor and not much else.
• MEF – Making Extensibility Fun: Martin Rue has an entertaining user story for MEF.
• xUnit Browser Attribute – Run Cross-Browser WatiN Tests Effortlessly: Ben Hall demonstrates how easy it is to extend xUnit and in the process creates a way to easily run web UI tests across multiple browsers.
• Linq To Mocks Is Finally Born: Daniel Cazzulino has added a neat feature to the next beta of Moq – the ability to use Linq queries to build a mock!
• Scalability Best Practices: A good list of scalability best practices – some pretty hopefully obvious, others not so much.

Web Development

• Spark Output Caching: Louis DeJardin writes about the latest feature of the Spark view engine – the ability to do granular output caching.
• ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released: Didn’t ASP.NET MVC just RTM? Yes! And there’s already v2 bits? Yes! Scott Guthrie has the details of the first drop of ASP.NET MVC v2.
• Single Project Area With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1: Phil Haack is already showing off the extensibility of latest ASP.NET MVC v2 bits.
• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 Applications with Visual Studio 2008: Tim Heuer demonstrates how you can work with both v2 and v3 Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008.
• The Definitive Guide to GET vs. POST: Fahed Bizzari has put together a very nice guide to choosing between GET and POST requests.
• Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC: Telerik is offering a set of UI extensions for ASP.NET MVC for free!
• Firefox and IE Deal With No-Cache Differently: Sriram Krishnan shares his findings after digging into a weird HTTP caching problem.