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Got home from work today and found a pleasant surprise waiting for me: My copy of Professional Community Server arrived today! First thing to do is snap a shot of me with said book and send it over to Jose to be posted on ProfessionalCommunityServer.com . Then it'll take a tour around the country (and possibly England and Iran as well) to be signed by as many Telligenti/MVPs as possible. Cheesy? Perhaps. But in all seriousness, having been involved with CS since the early early betas, and then getting...

I recently noticed a reasonable spike in traffic around here a few days ago; turns out an entry of mine got linked to by a Wiki article (no, I didn't make the link from Wiki myself ;-)). The point of this entry isn't to garner kudos or pat myself on the back (of course the ego points do make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside). The point is that the article that was linked to mentions in passing the point: A breaking change in the .Net framework from 1.x to 2.0. If you were to go strictly by the title...

Via Brad Abrams (via Microsoft.com ): Web development in the enterprise just got significantly easier! Our Patterns and Practices group just released their Web Client Software Factory which address many of the most common areas I hear corporate web developers talk about. I've learned quite a bit from the other factories released by the P&P team; this one looks to be a slam dunk for anyone developing web applications. Seeing as I'm heading back to the corporate IT realm (well kinda sorta...details...

Since not all of us could be there live, at least we can watch the webcast of the Mix ‘06 keynote speech (it’s almost 3 hours long, and to be honest I would fast forward to about the 1:30 mark unless you really enjoy hearing BillG drone on about “innovation” and whatnot, though the BBC demos about 40 minutes into it are pretty cool). Notables from the keynote: MySpace.com runs (and has been running) on asp.net 2.0 x64/SQL Server 2005 x64 (which is something I’ve suspected...

ASP.NET : Upgrade from ASP.NET 1.x ASP.NET 2.0 contains a wealth of new features and capabilities for ASP.NET developers. Learn how to best use the new features and explore the changes to the architecture in ASP.NET 2.0. Looks like MS has put up a dedicated site for 1.x to 2.0 migration resources. Lotsa good stuff there.