eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley

I was reading this weeks Code Project newsletter, when I came across an updated article named Versioning Controlled Build. The description so eloquently puts it: "A Visual Studio add-in that automates AssemblyVersion control."

Well, before you start crying, I'm not referring to a family member, though those who knew my grandmothers computer would say that it was. The old Compaq was 8 years old, and in computer years, thats about 80. It lived a fullfilling life for my grandmother, being that it was an old Pentium I with less RAM than what my smallest memory card for my digital camera holds.

Sitting in on the MSDN Event with Jeff Julian and Robert McLaws, and Robert just released a new community site devoted to using the Provider Model in ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0. The uber cool thing about this new announcement is that Interscape is releasing a Provider Model Framework free to the public in the next week or so.

Which File Extension are You?

I'm catching up on my Dilbert Desktop calendar and today's is going to be a keeper. Unfortunately, I can't scan it onto my computer (I think it may be copyright violation as well), but the strip is just great:

I'm doing some digging in my control download stats just to kinda see how things are going. Some of these results may be suprising, others just borderline insane.

Aside from Rory's occasional run to Starbucks, I wonder what he pounds down that makes his posts so darn funny. If you've not been reading his blog today, he's let a slew crazy ass blog posts about SellsCon 5 (or if you're really picky, Applied XML Developers Conference (I just like the other title better (assuming that Chris doesn't try and con anyone about XML (but who would do that?)))). I especially love the "Space Hamster" picture...

While the Google Desktop application is quite a feat by Google, I just think (like many others) that there are too many security risks and flaws in the current version that just render it useless.