My first rant

Oh, the first rant. Where to start? First of all, let me start with a disclaimer. I make no claims of original thought here. Undoubtedly, whatever I rant about has already been ranted about umpteen times over elsewhere. I will certainly try to give credit where credit is due, and will link to other blogs or pages on the topic of my rants. If I don't, I'm not trying to rip of other people's ideas, I just didn't see it.

I guess I'll start with the low hanging fruit. The name. Why does Microsoft insist on coming up with names that give search engines fits? .Net? C#? J#? X#? Are they deliberately trying to keep people from finding information about their products? Fortunately, Google can handle the # these days, but ".Net" still isn't searchable. And other sites don't handle it as well as Google.

On the topic of searching for .Net, the list archives at discuss.develop.net are a great resource for .Net questions and answers. But the search engine is CRAP. It would be so much more useful if you could do a reasonable search on it. And the limitation that you can only do a cross-list search if you subscribe to the list is annoying. Those LSoft guys need to license someone else's search engine in a hurry.