A while back I found the release notes for RC2, but no formal announcement about it's release - but I did speculate it would be a few days. It took a little longer, but it has been released. From the updated release notes, it looks like a lot of the work… more »

Today was a wierd day for me. I saw the Newsgator API contest a few days ago, but I hadn't posted about it. I've thought about cleaning up my Top Blog finder tool that I've been playing with and entering, but I wasn't sure I'd have the time. But today, s… more »

I haven't seen a formal annoucement yet, but the release notes are posted. Given that it's the next release candidate, there isn't much new here, but it should be less quirky and more stable. RC2 hasn't been released yet, at least not from the looks of… more »

Angus Logan provided me with a great link today about improving Virtual PC performance. I thought I'd seen most of the performance optimizations, but this is much more detailed than I've seen in the past. I'll definitely be looking at these in the near… more »

The fine folks over at GotDotNet alluded to a simpler way to share code at Tech Ed in June, and it's now live. It's called Code Gallery, and it's a solution for all of the developers who just used the Workspaces as a way to distribute code, rather than a… more »

A while ago, I blogged about wanting to find a way to share code snippets for a team. Ben Carey (who used to work at Sagestone, before we became NuSoft), read it, talked to Dave Donaldson, and Dave contacted me to help him test CodeKeep. I didn't do as m… more »

I haven't used it yet, but there's lots of good feedback about MCMS Manager, something developed by Chester that adds a lot of functionality missing from Site Manager. If you want to know what it adds, then you should check out his latest post, a compari… more »

I monitor the updates and additions to the CruiseControl.NET product documentation, and today there's been a plethora of action. The first was an interesting page addition that showed up in my aggregator - a nant task to run MsBuild scripts. That defini… more »

How's this for coincidences? Yesterday I was talking to Brian about my current BizTalk project. He asked if we were moving to BizTalk 2006. I said no, but the beta was coming out soon - probably this month. Well, I got home, and lo and behold, according… more »

According to an article in Computer World, Beta 1 of BizTalk Server is supposed to be out soon - as in this month. I'm looking forward to it. I think there's quite a bit of room for improvement and I hope to get my hands on it soon. The article also prov… more »