Scott Hanselman - Zipping/Compressing ViewState in ASP.Net .. Great idea. And TechEd Video #3 - Drink the TechEd KookAid … Aaron Weiker played this for us last night at the code brew … Aaron's first day at Microsoft was this Monday so he was there to answer any of our questions about the questionable orientation "rituals" being practiced at Microsoft ;)
Grady Booch - The Dark Side of Frameworks … good quote about the reality of writing frameworks
Julia Lerman - User Group Dilemmas - The widening gap between .Net Newbies and .Net pros … this is a very interesting point. Around Boston we have solved the problem on the other end of the spectum with Code Brew (helping the .Net pros widen the gap more so to speak). Advanced and involved not church where you sit and listen (not that there is anything wrong with that;)
Michael Swanson - Why Can't You Pay Attention Anymore? … balance, interesting idea and work smart is a great idea. In my new job, I try to only work 50 or so hours a week and not on weekends, but I am not too sure that I have any balance. For instance this week so far … normal work week, reading the 500 or so blogs I subscribe to on my commute, make a blog entry or two, read design patterns one day and inside vs.net the next, .Net user group web site design meeting on Monday night, Code Brew on Wednesday night, work out a couple of mornings … other than that spend a few hours with the wife here and there and sleep. This weekend I'll spend some time with Sue but probably more time on studying C++, ESS, creating a frontend to a web service returning an ESS message and other geek related stuff … got to go to Starbucks for the weekly reflection on the week (ie: write in journal about week, think, think some more about life and anything else that comes to mind and how it might be improved and drink lots of coffee) oh a probably work out both days in order to keep myself going;)
dasBlonde - Dev Connections Tutorial .Net Fundamentals … need to download this zip and check it out.
notgartner.com Mitch Denny's Blog - Joel's SDE Job Posting … line by line look at an SDE job posting
Brian Sherwin - Visual Studio Hacks is out! … another book to add to my list
Chandu Thota - MapPoint Web Service APIs : Try them out while you lear! … one of the fun things I'm working on is working with ESS (sort of an rss of event information) and now I want to tie it to mappoint so I can get some directions to these events on my smart phone.
Dave Burke - My migration to Community Server … I think telligent should hire Dave or make him an "TVP Community Server" ;) … keep up the good posts.
Eric Gunnerson -So you want to write a computer book?
Heather's "Marketing and Finance at Microsoft" Blog - Server and Tools Networking Event in Boston … anyone out there interested?
joemarini.com - What do you mean, my Mac is Vulnerable? … reminds me of a month or so ago I overheard some guy on the train telling a lady about how great Macs are and the "fact" that they "never" get viruses … as I overheard the conversation, all I could think was "ah … yea right …"
Matt Hawley - Road to the Red Pill - part 1 and Road to the Red Pill - Part 2
Michael Giagnocavo -Cracking code 5.1: Increasing your configuration … another great one from Michael … keep an eye on this guy … and keep him on YOUR side ;)