Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog

MSDN Sessions on ASP.NET: Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Applications are scheduled from 9th to 18th December 2003 in 6 Indian cities. More details ...

Spiritual Transformation in the Halls of High Technology - Kraig Brockschmidt, former employee of Microsoft wrote this draft copy for his (new) book. Not sure if its been published yet or not but its very interesting. Its not about MS's products or about arguments over Linux/OpenSource etc. Its about the spiritual transformation which the author went through during his 8 years of work at MS. [via Ramesh]

Maybe I've mentioned this one before but its worth it! The creators of ASP.NET are coming to a city near you. This is your chance to receive FREE, in-depth training on Microsoft's web development platform. So do go catch the ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow. Sadly I'm 7469 miles away :(

C# Class Generator - is a pretty simple web-based utility which automagically generates a complete C# class (and the Data Access Tier methods) from specified field inputs.

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship where he rightly points-out -- “Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it's design.”

Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers versus Netcraft Web Server Survey. So who's winning?

John Morris from CNET recently reviewed Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Its more of a non-developers point-of-view but a good read. John also mentions that the retail market cost of Longhorn will be the same as that of XP (according to Bill Gates). I feel that the cost & the delivery time are two sensitive issues which are by far speculative. What's intriguing is that, of the 300+ people who voted on the site only 50% recommended Longhorn (as of now - ie: Alpha build).  Some have even posted their comments (positive or negative). But again, the actual product is atleast 3-4 years away.

Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna]