Not reading blogs for 3+ weeks really leads to the feeling that you are missing out on something ... of course there is probably some deeper issues beneath this - but that will have to be another blog entry. I am starting the process of getting back to it ... sort of like getting into the pool to do laps this time of year - slowly enter the water and get adjusted before diving in :)
One drawback to subscribing to so many feeds is that most RSS readers take around a week to actually catch up on 1000+ feeds - especially if you take more than a week or two off. Usually when omea is downloading feeds it spins up too many threads and takes too big of a chunk of my network pipe that I can't really do much on the laptop until it finishes its pass over the feeds ... so be patient - I should be up to date by the end of this week if all goes well. In order to speed things up, I am dropping any entries that are more than 7 days old.
BTW: I have actually read these entries and added my comments to this batch ... not sure if I'll stay with this approach or not, does it add any value for you? I can tell you slows down the process, which in a normal day would mean feeds being 1 - 2 days older ... would that really matter?
Other Stuff
Greg - .Net Validation Framework (Domain Object Validation via Attributes) … sounds like a great idea, but I wonder what it does for performance …
JD Meier - 238 New Items in Guidance Explorer … man am I behind! How is a guy suppose to keep up with all this stuff?
Career stuff
via Erik C. Thauvin - [Nov 20, 2006 10:29 PST] 10 Links - The Average Salary for Java Developers … some interesting statistics in there for the IT jobs in the UK … J2EE mentioned in job adds 38.50% compared to .Net mentioned 16.35% ...
Database stuff
Melissa Demsak - 2006 PASS Community Summit Tidbits… … I bookmarked the SQL Sever Best Practices site last week, some very good information there.
Web stuff
via Dzone - Douglas Karr - Ajax without the X: Asynchronous dynamic content with JavaScript … good point, parsing xml on the client is always a pain in the butt … especially if it is not necessary with what you are doing … but "Ajax" is an easier buzzword :)
Michael Howard - Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library v1.5 Now Available … something web developers always need to stay on top of (you should also stay on top of sql injection attack prevention if your site sends any user input to a database)
Eilon - ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript Class Browser … interesting idea.
Debugging stuff
Tess - ASP.NET Case Study: Bad perf, high memory usage and high CPU in GC - Death By ViewState Another great ASP.Net debugging entry by Tess.
Community stuff
Thom Robbins - next Beantown .NET User Group meeting is December 7, 2006. Topic is Using ASP.Net 2.0 AJAX Extensions
DotNetUsers.org next meeting December 6, 2006 - Stephen Walther - Introducing Lollygag: a Better Ajax Framework for .Net