Microsoft's MIX07 conference has stirred up the web development world with demos of Silverlight, a new platform for rich internet applications. Code-named WPF/e (Windows Presentation Foundation/everywhere), Silverlight brings the full power of WPF to browsers and eventually Xbox and mobile devices. On the surface, it's much like Flash, distributed as a small browser plugin and providing an interactive, vector-based, event-driven platform for the web based on XAML. Continued »

Agile processes, are they killing our children?
A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link. Continued »