jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Video Series
A great VIDEO series on all the nice effects (and functionality) you can achieve with jQuery JavaScript library for those who know NOTHING about it. jQuery is a very powerful library. One of the first things I do when creating new project is to include the library in it. Microsoft is going to include it by default in ASP.NET web projects (All ASP.Net projects, not just MVC) starting Visual Studio 2010. Here

Microsoft’s Oxite Successor, Orchard, A CMS “Platform”
If you heard about Microsoft Oxite CMS, this is the new one, created as a different project to avoid previous developer comments.: From Press: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4506 Project Homepage:

Microsoft Releases New Facebook SDK Version (v 3.0)
Microsoft has released a new Facebook SDK Version 3.0 (other than their old not-so-great one) and it looks to have not just updated APIs but also wide range of features supported in many application types. Quoting a related blog post from c|net “The web services report” blog: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10393823-26.html

Arabic SharePoint Resources and Screencasts
Some cool guys (all working in ITWorx I guess, one of the biggest Egyptian Software houses) have created a new website: http://www.sharepoint4arabs.com The website, as the name implies, is dedicated for ARABIC resources related to SharePoint. It originally contained the technical blogs of the site f

[Link List]Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition is now complete (Ebook, Print)
Microsoft has released a final version of its book “Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition”. The book is described as: This guide is available online here in the MSDN Library and will be available in the Fall of 2009 as a Microsoft Press book, ISBN#