Phil Scott's WebLog

Don mentioned the fact that the C# version of the books have been doing much better sales wise than their VB.NET brother (or little sister depending on who you ask).  I happen to have been collecting some data on the training worldwide in a side project from our corporate headquarters, www.newhorizons.com.  Now based solely on the dates on the website as of two weeks ago, here's the breakdown in scheduling of the classes.  I should mention that I don't speak for New Horizons or even my individual center.  I just went to their website and grabbed data.  Break it down:

With Sam raving about Fritz Onion's Essential ASP.NET book, I decided to pick a copy up myself.  Heck, it meets Phil's Theory of Book Buying #3: "Buy anything with Ted Pattison's name on it."  Plus, I'm teaching an ASP.NET class next week and maybe a bit of Fritz's brilliance will rub off on me :) 

That's true as long as you don't actually use MSDN to do your searching.  Compare the hits from:
Searching MSDN for ADO.NET
Searching Google for ADO.NET (limited to Microsoft.com)

Argh.  The dreaded double whammy.  Not only is my team out, but my bracket is more hosed than normal.  I've did much better in past years when the Cards haven't been in the Tourney.

Argh.  If someone at Microsoft happens to read this, here in Louisville (the 16th-largest US city) we do have Computers and even people using VS.NET.  And I could use a new t-shirt :)

Greg 'Big Daddy G-Man' Robinson is in the lead in the prestigous .NET NCAA Tournament challange after a couple of serious scares from Maryland and Wake.  Not only that, he's doing better than 98.4% of the country.

Mitch Rupp pointed towards an article on Internet Weekly about the progress of Mono.  Some quotes I found interesting:

Instead of cluttering up this place with even more ramblings from myself about the games, I've brought back my Radio Blog with running thought from the NCAA games.