Visual Studio 2010 Architect Edition
AJ has a walk through of some of the new features in the Architect edition of Visual Studio 2010.  As much as everyone loves to hate on UML, there are a few things that it’s very useful for, so I’m glad to see that Visual Studio will support it.

MvcContrib 1.0 Ships
Apparently that happened on Wednesday last week, but I missed it.  Whoops.  If you are doing MVC development, check out their toolkit before you dig in.  They’ve got helpers and extensions that can really help simplify MVC development.

64 core screenshot
This article is pretty cool, but the best part is a screenshot of task manager on a 64-core box.  I want one.