An even better explanation of Comet techniques, an argument for why we need WebSockets

The midwest takes their beer seriously.

This is the best explanation of push technologies I've seen.

I think this can be used to create a role-playing gaming world. Google Maps for Primordia, anyone?

Incredible hack to get Silverlight 4 to work with Visual Studio 2010 RC.

Simple technique to make a Silverlight OOB app draggable via a surface drag. In the old days, we did this with something like NC_HITTEST… actually this seems more complicated. Next up is to figure out how to do it via behaviors.

Wikipedia's treatment on exFAT filesystem.

This article suggests that NTFS might not be the best choice to manage a ReadyBoost volume. Clearly, exFAT is superior to FAT32 except in one regard: compatibility. It even ahs advantages over NTFS. However, NTFS is still more capable in areas of file time resolution (NTFS 100 nanos, exFAT 10 millis). Also exFAT avoids NTFS verifies… is that good?

Cool way install a Silverlight XAP without first loading it into a brower.