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Customize MSDN Flash | Unsubscribe Volume 14, Number 21 | October 11, 2010     Top Stories     7 Free .NET Development and Architecture E-books Who doesn't love free books? Take a look at this list of 7 useful free e-books for .NET programmers and budding architects. Customize Your MSDN Flash Edition We created new categories to better tailor your featured content. New options include cloud computing (Azure), F#, IronPython, and more. Jump-start, Re-start, or Catalyze Your Career at the Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2010 The Microsoft Career Conference is a 24-hour virtual event where you can meet potential employers, hone your technical skills, acquire job-seeking skills, network with fellow professionals, and glean career advice from real-life experts in the field. Your Featured Content UML Extension for Spec Explorer 2010 With this extension, users can use sequence diagrams to slice an existing model or as a stand-alone source to verify an existing system. Users must install Spec Explorer 2010 to use this extension. Service Bus Discovery Learn how to roll your own discovery mechanism as we walk you through a small framework written to support discovery over the service bus, bringing it on par with the built-in support for discovery in WCF. Phalanger: a PHP Compiler for .NET The first version of Phalanger was focused only on compiling existing PHP applications for the .NET Framework. This second version added the goal of allowing interoperability between PHP and .NET world. This means that in version 2.0 it is possible to use most .NET objects right from PHP code. Multi-Touch Inertia One of the ways in which a multi-touch interface attempts to mimic the real world is by introducing inertia. We'll show you how easy this is to duplicate in your own WPF apps. Windows Embedded Hosts Events Across the U.S. Attend a free OEM Technical Seminar and find out how Microsoft Windows Embedded can help you quickly configure, build, and ship your next device.   HTML5: Specification or Platform? An interesting discussion broke out in the comments to the blog post on Never Mind the Bullets during the weekend over Tim Sneath's allegedly loose usage of the term HTML5 to describe the site. Four ASP.NET MVC View Engines Reviewed In this developer review, we discuss the role a view engine plays in a website built with ASP.NET MVC, and provide you details about the four view engines in order to help you decide which one suits your needs. Async and Parallel Design Patterns in F#: Parallelizing CPU and I/O Computations F# is both a parallel and a reactive language. By this we mean that running F# programs can have both multiple active evaluations (e.g. .NET threads actively computing F# results), and multiple pending reactions (e.g. callbacks and agents waiting to react to events and messages). PASS Summit 2010: Welcome to the Most Renowned Microsoft SQL Server and BI Conference This conference delivers the most technical sessions, the highest-rated sessions and speakers, and the greatest access to the Microsoft SQL Server development, SQL CAT, Business Intelligence, and Customer Service and Support teams of any SQL Server event. DevConnections November 1 - 4, 2010, Las Vegas, NV See Windows Phone 7 revealed. Using Silverlight, developers will change how applications move to the web and the mobile platform. 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