On a more or less regular basis I screen the results that pop up when I google for my name. This brings back memories of the bad old times of IIS:

Microsoft Active Server Pages IIS server hole (7/20/1997)

::$DATA IIS ISAPI filter (7/2/1998, fix site pulled)

Reminds me of my favorite - writing ISAPI filters in C++. However, as those two incidents have proven: even C++ can be put to good use <g />.

Found at msmobiles.com: This eBook may be useful for you if you would be interested in writing software for Microsoft Smartphone powered cell phones. It covers both native code (C++) and managed code (C#, Visual Basic .NET).

Finally. At long last. It took us four years to lay a solid foundation for #develop's future as a great Integrated Development environment. During that time I worked as the project's senior project wrangler: trust me, steering (open source) developers with their egos makes herding cats look like an easy challenge.

I have to admit that I learned a lot, which after all was the initial idea of joining the project. Managing, architecting, building and testing a project that has a few kLOC of C# code under its belly is a challenge when you have a distributed team - at least the core team was able to meet a few times. I'm proud that it worked out so well.

Read the announcement for 1.0

On Thursday, Peter did his SQL Server 2005 HOL for members of the SQL Server User Group Austria:

His workshop encompassed a tour of the new Studio management tool and for example TSQL enhancements (CTE's shown on the following photo):

Aside from just watching, I did the workshop part for SQLCLR features - writing functions, stored procedures, UDTs (user-defined datatypes), aggregates and triggers in .NET code. One cool sample is a function for email verification - try to do this in TSQL!

The Platform Lab (Building 20) is where product teams meet customers (heck, I was there just recently, and yes, it was the ASP.NET team hosting the event). In this Channel 9 video (download), Scott Guthrie takes you on a tour of the building.

I can safely assume that everyone knows the venerable Calculator that ships with Windows. Now there is the download for Microsoft Calculator Plus, a nicely spruced up version (non-classic view):

In addition to the visual enhancements, you can see to the left the addition of mathematical functions (well, in the end I still use my HP 48, but...).

The calculator sports Standard and Scientific view, the new Calculator Plus sports a third one - Conversion:

Now that's really nifty!

Kent Sharkey has posted changes to the special directory names used by ASP.NET v2.0. See his blog entry for details.

The patch was available already up front, now the security advisory was published on buqtraq (a list I very much recommend to subscribe to).

Cryptography Research put a Q&A online that answers questions around the hash collision attacks that were announced at the CRYPTO 2004 conference (way back in '97 I attended too, wow, the rump sessions were really cool).

If you happen to be a MSDN subscriber, then the Beta 1 Refresh has landed for you in the download section - including Team System! Be sure to read Rob Caron's post on what is definitely needed (installed), and what you might want to download too.