Words of wisdom from the guy sitting next to me (not nekkid this time) at an offsite. I want/need feedback on the ASP.NET Developer Center . I've asked in the past, and have gotten great feedback. Please do continue to comment here, or e-mail me. In addition...

New on the .NET Book Club (no Oprah involved) is a book review system . A little light right now, but it only launched today. Contribute... TTFN - Kent

We'll be having another ASP.NET Webcast week coming Oct 18-29 (OK, that's two weeks, but ASP.NET Webcast Fortnight just doesn't work in some countries -- like the US). What topics would you like to hear about? How much ASP.NET 2.0 content versus 1.1 content...

Dogs are dancing with cats! Boiling frogs are falling from the sky! English is being spelled phonetically! Duncan wrote a web article! Make your peace now, it's only a matter of time... TTFN - Kent PS: I'm sorry if this posting has offended...

Christine and I have been trying to brainstorm new features for the ASP.NET Developer Center . So, I've decided to do two things: Ask all of you for new 'things' you'd like to see on the ASP.NET Developer Center (besides articles, that's assumed...

Scott continues to add to his list o' useful doodads . He's now written a 'rounded corners' control. As you all know, rounded corners are the 'new black' for websites . TTFN - Kent

As reported elsewhere, Office 2003 Service Pack 1 is now available . Don't wait, download, reboot, enjoy. TTFN - Kent

meme : /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. More colloquilally: a way to store/share a moment...

Just uploaded the updated version of the Getting Started section of the ASP.NET Developer Center . This is the result of *a lot* of feedback, mostly internal, about the 'old' Getting Started page (I'll leave that one up for a while, as I hate breaking...

For those of us who don't feel up to writing something with the Express editions to win an XBox and Halo 2, Mike Schinkel has informed me that Xtras.net and ComponentOne have an even sweeter deal. Download any ComponentOne program from Xtras.net, and...

While it certainly hasn't been finalized, you can see a good overview of what features should be in each of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 here . TTFN - Kent

The latest from Infusion Development now live (too early for clever -- or cleaver -- banter): Creating Custom Web Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 Summary: The new adaptive rendering model in ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of new options for control writers...

Two more articles from Infusion Development have just gone live. Get them while they're fresh. Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0 Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0 TTFN - Kent

Stephen “Peacock” Toub lets us all know that the articles from the August 2004 issue of MSDN magazine are now live: Dino Esposito on the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control Jason Masterman and Ted Pattison on using SharePoint and ASP.NET...

In my ongoing attempt to fix my “work/life” balance [1], I decided to start playing City of Heroes [2]. Like many MMORPGs (non-RPG geeks: stay tuned, there will be a code reference later) there are 'hunting grounds' in CoH. Hunting grounds...

Good luck, and have fun Scott, in your new job . The skill set (and resume) at Telligent Systems continues to grow and amaze. TTFN - Kent

A new MSDN TV is live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040715VSTUDIOKH/manifest.xml Examples of Visual Studio Extensibility Ken Hardy demonstrates the extensibility of Visual Studio ranging from the quick and easy...

The latest ASP.NET Support Voice column is now online . In it, Jeremy lists all of the common ASP.NET security related knowledge base articles. Definitely worth keeping handy. TTFN - Kent

Just cleaning my Inbox, and I see that a few articles were published on the ASP.NET Developer Center while I was out: Derek Hatchard sends us his thoughts on More and Less: How ASP.NET 2.0 Features Compare Against the Starter Kit Reference Applications...

One thing I dreaded while I was on vacation (and "being good" — not reading my office e-mail. Much.) was the size of my mailbox upon returning to the office. So, how big did it get? Folder Messages Comments Inbox 547 ...

After spending six of the last 13 days as a passenger in a hot car traversing the country (and the neighbouring country to the North), I'm home. I spent a lot of those 2400 km thinking about highways, strangely enough. Do the people that build and maintain...