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I have 5 invites for the highly hyped Google Wave and I am giving them away to my fellow readers!

Sharing some of the great off-blog thoughts and advice from others who have been or may some day be converted to Gmail -- more than a few with whom I agree.

Do you want to use an API but you are too lazy to write your own code to handle the requests? If you code in PHP as I do, then you will definitely need these classes. By using the classes listed here you will be able of using a great number of web services with an easy and documented way.

Starting today, developers worldwide can integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and Web sites. Developer.linkedin.com is now live and open for business.

Having trouble getting things done? Falling behind on deadlines? Here are some tips.

Christmas approaches as does the end of the year, below are 5 great gifts you can get yourself. These are books that I have personally read, so they definitely are receiving my full recommendation – full of tips and great answers towards running a successful business and making money from what you love doing!

In this great post by Jimmy Bogard or this Dimecasts on the subject we take a look at how to add IoC (Inversion of Control) support to your WCF application in order to support DI (Dependency Inversion). However, the one thing both the post and Dimecasts fail to take into account is what if you are not hosting your WCF service in IIS?

Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of Maps V3, which was released in May, the team took a fresh approach, so some interfaces have changed.

I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service. That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService. I didn’t have time to get into this in my talk, so I thought I’d hit the highlights here. And in the process show how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms.

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