Lance's Whiteboard

One last post before I find a pillow....

David Soloman and Mark Russinovich did an excellent job tailoring their typically infrastructure-oriented Windows Internals course to fit us PDC attendees.

After a draining 9+ hour ordeal trying to fly from DFW to LAX involving 1 broken plane in DFW and another upon arriving at LAX, we finally arrived in LA.  (Thanks for the memories American Airlines!)

This is just a collection of links to newsgroup posts that answer commonly asked questions:

Google just released a new version of their Google Desktop Search software.  It has tons of configuration options and a new "sidebar" to help you keep information ready at your fingertips.  As a developer, I also like the extensibility which now includes many 3rd-party file parsers and sidebar add-ins.  If you are interested in writing your own plugins, there are even a couple .NET Wrappers available.

I first discovered Fiddler over a year ago after trying several other HTTP trace/proxy tools like YATT for tuning ASP.NET 1.0 applications. Although many of the other tools worked well, they often had extra dependencies or more complex UI's.  None of them quite matched the ease-of-use of Fiddler - especially with its IE integration.  Much has already been said about this tool on various blogs, so I won't repeat the typical praise and standard explanations. 

Bob has recently has updated his site, LearnVisualStudio.NET, with over 50 new video tutorials on VisualStudio.NET 2005.    Here is a quick sampling of some of the topics:

David sent me this gem recently and it frankly surprised me a bit to see (what I consider to be) such a high-impact change to C# and the CLR so late in the game.