In my company we decided to start a Mission Impossible task: creating a simple app from scratch, based on following technologies without great knowledge of some of them:
Let’s see what happens, in any case it’ll be a lot of fun 
4ward blog post: http://blogs.4ward.it/index.php/one-month-to-rule-them-all-challenge/
We started using Windows Server AppFabric for a Silverlight/RIA application and had a problem during configuration on one of our server. The problem was that when we opened .xamlx file to check service health we received the following error:
“Cannot find connection string for connection name ‘ApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString’”
Solution: After deep investigation we discovered that the issue was due to the fact that AppPool used to host the service was configured with Enable 32-bit applications flag set to true, therefore it was reading a different machine config file (for 32-bit apps), that is not changed by the AppFabric configuration wizard (Bug? By design? I’ll open a Connect ticket). Setting flag to false solved the issue!
Hope this helps
NDepend is getting better and better after each release. The new reporting is really fast, powerful, beautiful to see and ease to use. Keep up the outstanding work you’re doing!
Integration between AS400 and external web services …
Mapping of different text files in input and output …
usage of web services …
Integration with Sharepoint 2010
I think it’s time to try Biztalk 2010 Beta 
It’s really painful preparing your new PC from scratch (and having to do it 2 times because on the first try COM+ on Vista was broken …. :-S). I installed a lot of software in a lotof time, but finally my ACER 6935 with the much desired 4GB of RAM is up and running 
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Here is the list of main software with its link (where necessary) to be used for reference in the future. I have deliberately omitted software used mainly by system engineer.
If someone has some other interesting software to be added any comment is always welcome:
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