Things to look at on 19.06.2008

• Send text messages to a cell phone via windows live messenger, courtesy of D'Arcy from winnipeg
• Jay fields on testing & the importance of context
• microsoft IO
  Microsoft IO provides a Capability Framework to help you build an optimized infrastructure, and is based on three models. None of this was build in isolation. Microsoft worked with industry analysts, industry and academic experts to devise a set of models that establishes a foundation for where you currently are and where you may want to go to come into alignment with your business goals and capabilities, thus creating a Roadmap for a Dynamic and Agile IT, that focuses on delivering core business value rather than being a cost center. IO provides guidance and best practices for a step by step implementation.
• Everything you want to know about MVC - MVP
• The open-close principle
  MSDN magazine now contains a column about design patterns! finally...
• jquery
  the library, a load of blog posts by rick strahl, a webcast on dotnetrocks
• Irony
• master certificates announced
• webcast with the authors of Velocity