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Counting days to start the session.

I used to be a big fan of Assembly (x86) in the past when doing graphics for the ancient 320x200x256 and later when lecturing about 80x86 to practical engineers. These days I don't do that anymore, but I think knowing the basics does make sense.

Let me first clarify - John Bristowe is a great speaker, but what he was presenting - shame on Microsoft Canada.The topics promised so much, the *real* thing was so disappointing. A few samples:

This is weird. An assembly with web controls and embedded resources was working fine in WebSite project but not in WebApp project. The request is returned with OK response (200), but absolutely empty. Will post solution once find it :)

Today I'm happy to be a team leader. The reason - I managed to convince the management to get ReSharper for all our developers. I'm more than convinced that developers will find it more than useful. The problem is where to send them to have the best and quickest tutorials of the most useful features. If you have links and don't mind to share - grate.

One of the books from my reading wish list has finally made it - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Marin Fowler. Interesting reading so far. The book was advised by JP Boodhoo. I'd love to hear other good books recommendations with preferably less Coffee examples :)

Alt.Net has definitely has generated the hype and excitement (well, at least for me). I heard in ScottGu's lecture thing I wanted to hear for quite long:

I haven't paid attention to the space in the namespace attribute value and had to spin my wills till found it: