This week-end we made a long visit with a team of developers/designers to Izmir, Dokuz Eylul University. Week-end events are the ones I love most. Why? Because both students and developers from industry can be part of the audience and this mix creates the most suitable social environment for experience interchange!

We did host sessions about SL 3, WPF, IE 8 for developers, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, LINQ and XNA! Thanks to our MVPs and local User Group leads for all their help hosting those sessions and providing support in the mean of activity announcement.

Finally a huge 10X :) to our MSPs from Dokuz Eylul! You ROCK!

After a heavy loaded year with lots of AJAX and Silverlight projects, please welcome my second AJAX Book :) ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX.

The book covers a wide range of topics including JavaScript frameworks like MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, server-side frameworks like AJAX.NET, Anthem.NET and of course all the client-side and server-side features of ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX!

A total of 700 pages will provide you the path from start-up AJAX development to the high-end performance tricks. AJAX enabled WCF apps, LINQ2JSON are just some of the fresh topics in the book.

I would like to thank to Goksin Bakir from Microsoft MEA for his valuable review.

Writing an English book is one of my dreams :) however for the moment ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX is in Turkish.

Crystal Tech, one of my favorite hosting providers, announced the new ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Hosting Plan. You can easily get hands on experience on a real-life hosting with full LINQ and AJAX support. The downside is that the servers are running on Server 2003 for the moment. Hope they upgrade to Server 2008 as soon as possible.