Ingo: Birthday! I'm turning 23 today. I guess I'm one of the younger folks around here ;-)

Happy Birthday! Yes, you're a young pup-) And OK on the email. I guess I should try to go to WinDev too and hook up with all you guys. The lineup looks excellent. The problem is money. Well, there's always winning the lottery-). But I will be at the Web Services DevCon which as Sam Ruby suggested you shoukd come out a few days early for.

8:20:44 AM    

Happy Birthday!. Yep, it's my birthday.  The big two-seven.  Only three more years left to reach my "before thirty" goals. [System.Error.Emit]

Happy Birthday Brian, you youngster-)

9:25:27 PM    

I'll be at WIN-DEV's Fall Developer Summit in Tyngsboro, MA. October 15 - 18, 2002 where I'll talk on the CLR/.NET Internals track. [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] which is about 4 miles from my house Ingo!! We've got to meet physically-))

9:20:27 PM    

Joe points to two brilliant looking books:

Test Driven Development (Kent Beck) is a book devoted to the black art of unit-testing. Remember in Return of the Jedi when Yoda was rambling on about how to be an effective Jedi and then in Attack of the Clones you actually see him strut his stuff - and he kicks ass... well Kent kicks ass.

and

Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) is his long awaited book that's been evolving on his website for over a year. This book looks at design and architectural patterns of enterprise systems and discusses many practical implementations that can be built ranging from the quick and simple to very clever and scalable.

[rebelutionary]

Cool, Kent does kick ass and Martin is one of my favorite tech guys.

9:15:31 PM    

George Shepherd takes a look at what it takes to write ASP code-behind pages using Managed C++.

1:20:19 AM    

Someone has finally written a decent article on Cutomizing Visual Studio .NET with Wizards. The difference between the article and others like this one on add-ins is that Chandu talks about the vital interface IDTWizard and VSZ and VSDIR files. .VSZ and .VSDIR files are poorly documented even in VSIP and yet are the key to understanding how to integrate with VS.NET. In my work with VS.NET, I found that a true understanding of VS.NET not only heavily involves things like VSZ and VSDIR files, but the Registry. The stunning thing about understanding VSIP and all VS.NET automation for that matter is that it is data driven from the Registry out, now from the top down. Things happen because of settings in the Registry that are used by the environment and do not proceed in a top down or object manner. VSIP has a huge learning curve and I can't talk about it here but the trying to make sense of it and VS.NET finally came when I dropped trying to understand the 300+ classes in an object kind of way and dug into the Registry and realized that it was data driven out from there. More on this later.

8:56:19 AM    

Just wanted to give a title on this and amplify a little bit. I have been working with .NET since the COM+ 3.0/NGWS (NDA) days and was a Microsoft.NET Early Adopter Partner (EAP). Because of this I have had the opportunity to build two real production products using .NET which is a somewhat unique position. I consider myself expert in many areas of .NET and particuarly Interop, VSIP and VS.NET. I have am also the co-author of a book As I explained earlier:

I am available after July 30th. I have come in on a contract basis for the last 7 months and helped Groove produce some great things. We have had a great relationship and will continue to have one in the future (with Groove work). The current contract will complete on July 30th and I am available. I am interested in continuing to do .NET and Web Services work. If you are interested, you can contact me at ManagedCode@attbi.com.

Update: Some kind words of reference from Groovers Paresh Suthar,  John Burkhardt and Matt Pope.

8:55:07 AM    

It seems to me that .NET is poised in a very good position.  Let me explain.

Throughout Java's past a lot of development has happened to make it a practical tool for developers.  ...Now .NET comes along 5+ years later.  It's based on a lot of the good points from Java but much more refined and incorporated with support for current technologies such as XML and WebServices.

All developers who develop with C++ stand up and say "I'm Smart"
All developers who develop with VB stand up and say "I have a life"
Now all developers who develop with C# stand up and say "I am smart and I have a life"

- paraphrasing Don Box's talk on C# at VS Live 2001[StronglyTyped - Richard Caetano's weblog on software development]

Yes, you got it. That's the whole point in a nutshell.

9:55:06 PM    

You can sign up now to receive free trial software for Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1 (RC1)—via CD or download

9:03:31 AM    

Gates: Slow going for .Net. Microsoft's chief software architect acknowledges that the company's Web services push has run into some roadblocks. Also: .Net set to link to Apache. [CNET News.com]

Well, I stand corrected on my earlier push back. Gates does say what I said about the renaming of BackOffice Servers:

"Maybe the .Net Enterprise servers," launched in September 2000, were "prematurely called .Net. The first generation of .Net products was putting a layer on top of existing functionality," Gates said.

Shoot, that means Dare was right...again -))

11:10:40 PM    

Patrick Logan and Sam Gentile push back on Paul Andrews' assessment of .NET. Perhaps I can shed some light. Paul is a user and a journalist, not a developer. Two years ago Microsoft started making a lot of claims about .NET including some specific ship dates and features, that they have missed. Paul isn't responsible for explaining to readers the why's and wherefore's, and it's good that he is checking up on their delivery, so perhaps next time big companies like MS make grand proclamations about their dominance, they'll be taken with a few more grains of salt, and not clear the landscape of all innovation until they ship, or fail to. It's happened over and over. Paul has been around the loop enough to have seen it a few times. And he's generally a Microsoft booster, not a detractor.  [Scripting News]

A tip of the hat and thanks to Dave for sending all that traffic my way. I appreciate the explanation about Paul (BTW, I'm not sure its material to his discussion whether he's a Microsoft backer or detractor) and do fault the Microsoft marketing machine for marking everything ".NET" such that users are totally confused. Branding all the BackOffice Servers as .NET Servers was just stupid IMHO, as they don't have a line of managed code in them. However, I can't be in agreement with the dates thing. What dates were missed? Microsoft hit the end of the year 2001 date for the .NET Framework and the Feb 14, 2002 date for VS.NET. They hit dates for the Rotor CLI release. What dates am I missing? Also, agreeing with Patrick, the question still stands: In what way did ".NET sink like a stone?" It doesn't require a developer to answer this question. "What I object to in Paul's piece is his phrase "sunk like a stone". I don't think it has, and I don't think that's fair. dotNET is just getting started."

12:33:44 AM    

None of your mid-80s William Gibson manual typewriters for these boys.  This is some kind of cyber-apotheosis, here."

8:27:59 AM    

Conferences. I'm off to Old Blighty for four days, to attend the Rotor Workshop in Cambridge. Blogging may be intermittent as a result. In the meantime, I leave y'all with a pointer to OOPSLA 2002, being held this November in Seattle. The content looks excellent, lots of great Rotor & CLR coverage, including promising tutorials & workshops such as "The 1st International Workshop on Runtime Kernel Support for Dynamic Languages and Component Based Architectures" and "A Language Designer's View of Rotor". The conference also has a web services track. Invited speakers include Anders Hejlsberg, Kent Beck and Bill Gates. Looks like a great event. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]

I agree. Looks like there may be hope for OOPSLA after all. It won't be all Smalltalk and Java this year (for once). Maybe, it will be Smalltalk.NET instead-))

3:55:26 PM    

Paul Andrews: "What happened to .NET? Microsoft's flagship strategy for 'any time, anywhere computing from any device' has sunk like a stone. By now we were supposed to be seeing initial .NET applications, but the new rallying cry seems to be for Palladium, a security initiative that has met with the same skepticism and resistance from the developer community that .NET inspired. At its worst, Palladium looks to be a sop to Hollywood and its efforts to control digital content."  [Scripting News]

I'm perplexed at your article Paul. .NET is being used by thousands of companies around the world in their applications. Its a rapid development and deployment kind of infrastructure technology not one to be "seeing initial .NET applications." In that way, its not neccessarily a  "showy" technology. Its just doing its job and helping developers create their applications a lot quicker. On what merits has it "sunk like a stone?"

10:04:39 AM    

Performance Considerations. Here's a list of performance considerations to keep in mind when considering the move to Managed Code.... [MC++ FAQ]

I would add somthing about if you app expects certain things to happen in a determinstic way or uses resources that must be released in a determinstic way, that the app will not be a good candidate today for moving to managed code, or you must at least be quite dilligent in your finalizer code, which then leads to another performance problem itself.

9:01:51 AM    

Wolfram's A New Kind of Science is execrable. It's 1100 pages based on a point that everyone interested in the subject already knew: simple cellular automata can have arbitrarily complex behavior. Given that CAs and Turing Machines are the particle accelerators of computer science, and given the heavy buzz related to algorithmic thermodynamics, and given Wolfram's claims, a reasonable expectation of this book is that the "new kind of science" might, oh I don't know, consist of something more than 1100 pages of "Look at the pictures and you'll develop an intuition that I'm a genius." Instead, Wolfram seems to think that the generation of complex sequences from simple rules is some kind of shattering revelation. At first, you think "Okay, maybe I'm missing something," but there's no there there. It's as if Wolfram had never heard of complex numbers, had never heard of pi (which can also be generated from a simple formula).

For a much better popular book on the deep relationship between computer science and physics, try Fire In The Mind. For something meatier, I like Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information: The Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information.

7:01:46 PM    

Wow!! Our NH Users Group got a special guest  this week. Thanks Jim and Jim!

Featured Guest: Jeff Richter

Topic: .NET Threading

Guest Bio: Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect, a training, debugging, and consulting firm that is dedicated to helping companies build better software, faster. He is the author of several Windows programming books, including Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows and Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000, and the bestseller Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (MS Press January 2002). Jeffrey is also a contributing editor at MSDN magazine, where he authors the .NET column. He has been consulting with the Microsoft .NET Framework team since October 1999.

6:15:15 PM    

Hi Keith! Keith is apparently studying at Rutgers and has linked to some of my posts.  He has a Blog too. Welcome!

2:15:38 PM    

.NET Guy: Clemens Vasters has come through with a rather comprehensive list of helpful hints for easing your interop pain between .NET and COM+. A must read list!

10:30:32 AM    

Sam Ruby: New essay: REST + SOAP.

This is a must read essay. "In reality, there aren't two sides. There are at least four: Everything is a resource. Everything is a get. Everything is a message. Everything is a procedure." 

10:25:37 AM    

The transition from ADO to ADO.NET is not an idle sidle, but a leap of faith. Why should you make the jump? What advantages does ADO.NET offer compared with classic ADO? Primarily, ADO.NET gives you better control of data manipulation.

8:09:41 AM    

Cool, Simon announced the little project that Simon, Sam & I have been working on. Basically it's a RESTful SOAP 1.2 implementation of Simon's SOAP 1.1 interop registry - Sam provided the impetus and guidance, Anyway, go read the announcement and give it a try. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]

8:04:49 AM    

I think the title says it all.  Check it out here. Enjoy!  [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog]

2:14:06 AM    

Technology Confined Collaboration?  The folks at the big software companies would have you believe that software is always pristine and perfect, and that organizations and their staid cultures are the barriers to reaching collaborative nirvana.  Don't believe the hype.  When it comes to collaboration, technology (and more precisely, technology architecture) can doom the best laid plans around enterprise collaboration.Read about it here... [Michael Helfrich's Radio Weblog]

11:30:34 PM    

Today, Sam draws our attention to Matt Powell's MSDN article "Digging into SOAP Headers with the .NET Framework." In it, he describes a class that extends System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapExtension to add headers on a site-wide basis.

I played around a bit with SoapExtensions myself earlier this year.  I created a pair of walkthroughs (one for VS.NET and one for the command line) that detail the process of creating an extension that logs traffic and obfuscates SOAP message traffic. I also wrote up an extension I created that transforms rpc/encoded SOAP messages into document/literal messages on the fly, so the same service can handle both rpc- and document-style messages.

[k10n]

Good stuff. I have been meaning to welcome you and tell you that I am RSS-subscribed.

10:25:31 PM    

In a thread on the OT mailing list, John Lam comments on how he is SO much more productive with C# then C++.

It's not even funny. I'm one of the poor saps who still has to write all
of his production code in C++, because it has to be unmanaged.
What I find is that I prototype complex algorithms in C# and then *port*
that code to C++. I love the fact that I don't have to think about:
- who owns the memory
- const correctness
- STL minutiae
Are other folks doing this too? Just curious ...

I answered that I am. I found that in my VSIP and unmanaged C++ work on the Groove toolkit, I was able to go *much* faster by first "prototyping" the functionality in C# and the Automation model and then "translating" the functionality (if it had to) to C++ ATL. That translation would produce about 75% more code and take about 4x more time. Of course, I have always claimed this 4-6x increased productivity speed. People wonder why I am so excited about .NET? Its right there. Its a key driving force for business: the ability to build fully robust, rich functionality and products in a fraction of the time.

8:37:33 AM    

http://www.wirelessadwatch.com/profile/2001/profilium.shtml

http://www.mobic.com/news/2002/01/avesair_matches_mobile_marketing.htm

8:33:53 AM    

Editorial: But all that misses the point: The most significant aspect of Web services isn’t the standardized interfaces (or lack thereof); it’s the services.

Discuss.

8:16:43 AM    

Groovey Services. Justin had some comments on Groove. Summary: he likes the Groove services, but doesn't like the Groove client. The good news is that edge services address this complaint neatly. For more info see these posts from the Groove bloggers: Matt Pope, John Burkhardt, Tim Knip, Hugh Pyle & Jeroen Bekkers, or read the Infoworld and DevX articles on the topic. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]

I can't really comment on this. Edge Services is all over this area. I'll let the Groovers comment.

7:56:34 AM    

I think the Groove network is cool.  It is secure by default (192 bit encryption) and it is private.  Both good things.  But I think the vision that Ozzie is having is the same one he had for Lotus Notes.  He is trying to get me to use a new tool.  He wants me to do my calendar in Groove.  He wants me to discussion, chat, and project management in Groove.  He wants me to do document review process in Groove.  He wants me to do all these things in Groove Transcendar.  [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog]

Ah, Justin, it's the Groove Transceiver, not Transendar. I think that's Star Trek -))

7:55:14 AM    

It would often be useful to be able to sort by more than one column in a DataGrid. .Net has no built-in way to sort by multiple columns, but this article shows one way that some extra code can make this "multi-sorting" possible.

8:43:29 AM    

Visual Assist Rocks [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development]

Welcome to the club John! I have been using Visual Assist for 4 years and could not code without it. As John said, the tool makes intelligent predictions on what I type by remembering variable names as well as recently typed items. Many times I just type the first character and then just hit Tab. It saves me tons of keystrokes. This tool rocks!

8:03:26 PM    

Ok, for the past few months, I have hinted that I have been doing some very cool things with VSIP and Visual Studio.NET. With the first public announcements and an MSDN webcast out there, I think it is a good time to tell you about a very cool thing we have built that will be a great tool for .NET developers out there and the community at large. For the last 7 months, I have had the priviledge of working for Jack Ozzie and with some very bright people at Groove Networks in creating a full design add-in, the Groove Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET,  that will allow the .NET developer to create fully  collaborative and peer-to-peer applications quickly and easily inside of VS.NET.  You will be able to freely download this toolkit in a couple of weeks!

We have used VSIP with its ATL C++ COM code base together with some pretty innovative use of managed code in C# to create an awesome design tool.  This includes manipulation of the Forms Designer in VS.NET. "The text-based approach to developing tools and applications for Groove is just too cumbersome for most developers," said co-founder Jack Ozzie. "With our support for Windows Forms, and the development of our Groove Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, we will cut the time it takes developers to build Groove tools or applications by 75 percent, or more. " This is more than true. We actually have it down, in the simple case, to less than 4 minutes end to end and the touch of a few buttons! The XML files that were previously hand-edited quite tediously are now generated all behind the scenes for you automatically. For this, I used a lot of managed code from the absolutely fabulous System.Xml namespace, which just rocks!!

I think that the Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET  is going to be a very important tool for .NET developers as you can now easily build a true collabrative peer-to-peer application in the same time as it takes you to build any WinForms app. You can use the same technologies you already know - C# or VB.NET, WinForms and such.  I have been honored to be a main part of this and work with some brilliant people. That also includes the parallel effort in Web Services led up by Matt Pope, who sits a few cubes away (and has always been a great friend) and John Burhhardt.

7:49:10 AM    

The Angry Coder has a nice rant on Web Service Listings out there and an inability for mere mortals to use them in Web Service Listings - What's The Frequency, Kenneth? 

"Why is it then, that developers/companies that build and publish Web Services don't follow this same logic? I have taken a look at dozens of the Web Service listings at both SalCentral.com and XMethods.org. In 9 out of 10 cases, the only implementation documentation that is supplied is the WSDL interface. What the fuck is up with that? I don't have the time to pore over some cryptic WSDL document, trying to figure out how to interact with a Web Service. I don't care how Goddamn cool or useful it purports to be."

8:27:26 AM    

"All we are saying, is give SOAP a chance" Apparently Don was up to his old tricks at TechEd Europe... :-) [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]

This is almost as good as when he dropped his pants at a Boston talk on COM+ transactions showing his "Don Boxers."

7:18:05 PM    

Congratulations Sam! Hope you and your wife can still have a decent summer even though morning sickness may damper things. How's the first trimester going? [Wrinkled Paper]

Thanks for your well wishes (and to everyone else). The first trimester is going very well so far. Sue does have some morning sickness but has not really wanted to restrict things so far. She says it is better than it was with Jonathan almost 5 years ago. In fact, we're off to the legandary Fenway Park in less than an hour to see the Red Sox!!

10:08:18 AM    

System.Error.Emit: "Drawing on years of experience writing obfuscation and optimization tools in the Java space, Dotfuscator offers world class intellectual property protection for .NET applications". When I teach .NET classes & I show MSIL, I *always* get asked about protecting IP. In the past I've pointed students at Brent Rector's Demeanor based on it's very extensive feature list and Brent's reputation in the .NET community. In any event, it sounds like Dotfuscator might be a possible alternative to Demeanor, but it's hard to compare the products side-by-side. A while back Brent wrote up a great article on Demeanor & obfuscation technologies in general, and preEmptive Solutions also posted a writeup with more details on Dotfuscator. What I'd really like to see is a feature-by-feature comparison chart to see what the relative strengths and weaknesses of each product are [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]

As would I given Brent's reputation in the community.

9:44:55 AM    

Sue is 8 weeks pregnant with a due date of Feb 4th. We found out last Monday. Yay!!!!

8:38:46 AM    

I'm having a great time at this conference. There are speakers from Microsoft, IBM, BEA, and Sun, and a lot of talk about Web Services. Between Q&A, breaks, and lunch, people have had lots of opportunities to talk to each other. It is so important to get competing players in the same room, clear the air of FUD, and talk to each other about the real issues. I'll be moderating a panel this afternoon where those speakers will sit down and talk about .NET/J2EE interop. [Brian Jepson's Radio Weblog]

Very cool.

11:09:01 AM    

Microsoft has released J#.NET, their own Java impl.... Microsoft has released J#.NET, their own Java implementation that creates MSIL. Have to agree with Gartner, the target group for this language got to be pretty small. But, if the get the Java 1.3.1 to .NET converter working, that should be really interesting. I've tried to current beta version with not really satisfactory results. [protocol7]

I forgot to post this as I think its a NOOP but what the heck. Protcol7: NOOP is an assembly computer instruction that does nothing. That's what this product means: nothing. It means nothing and its worth nothing.

11:08:26 AM    

I'm going to scrape the HTML files for his entries using Java and rebuild weblogData.root, probably by creating an XML version of his entire site as an intermediate step. Does anyone know of any Radio Userland verbs or third-party tools that will post weblog entries to the past? [Workbench]

What a very nice thing to do! Thank you Roger! It is so nice to see this in the community.

10:54:46 AM    

Sci Fi Channel Singularity Chat with Venor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil.. Sci Fi Channel Singularity Chat with Venor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil. [Hack the Planet]

The two masters of Singularity together.

10:33:04 AM    

My thanks go out to everyone who wished Lynn good luck.  Someone must have heard because her red blood cell count is just a bit below normal.  They (the doctors) have slowed the bleeding down a bit so that is still the biggest worry.  They did upgrade her from 22 hour observation to admittion.  [Justin Rudd's Radio Weblog]

Justin, I meant to respond yesterday but had system problems. I have been thinking of you and your wife and I send my best wishes to both of you. You will get through this. Sending you good thoughts.

10:32:08 AM    

7) Brad Wilson's ".NET Guy" Weblog isn't working for me right now. I get a blank page. Weird.
[Scobleizer Radio Weblog] Yikes! Here it is 9:00am EST and it's still down... [Wrinkled Paper]  

Have you seen my site lately? I lost everything last night!

10:05:49 AM    

Mitch Wagner responds to my earlier post on Palladium.  He makes some interesting points.  But, it still seems like most of the reporting is "We don't know what Microsoft is planning, and we don't know whether they can pull it off, and we don't know for sure if it is a conspiracy.  But at least we know that it is called Palladium, and it is probably bad for the fish."  But I think that some people, and especially the GPL politicians, cross the line into territory that is completely counterproductive.  As an example, read the so-called "TCPA FAQ".  It's a shameless piece of FUD by a self-proclaimed open-source economist.  You can summarize the entire FAQ as "TCPA will eliminate privacy and freedom for everyone but the boogey man, and will destroy puppies and the GPL."  It is a great read for a student of rhetoric, because it illustrates all sorts of specious reasoning constructs.  It reminds me of a joke that some friends and I used to make about things like communism and grandiose distributed object frameworks (like Forte used to be).  We would ask "how could a conceptual framework so riddled with flaws attract so many adherents?"  Then we would shrug our shoulders and say "Who cares?  It keeps them busy and out of my way."

But it's not exactly as easy as saying "Flypaper traps flies, and I don't have to eat it, so who cares what it tastes like to me?"  The problem is that we have a lot of smart people wasting their entire lives worrying about what bad stuff might happen, rather than thinking about what good stuff is just waiting to be unleashed by human creativity.  Like I said, that is fine for most journalists, but it is not a good strategy for computer people hoping to advance the industry.  It would be easy to write all about why the so-called TCPA FAQ is a poorly-done propaganda piece.  But I think it is more interesting to discuss the pitfalls faced by people who lack positive vision in this industry.  That will be the topic of my next essay.

4:42:29 AM    

Happy Birthday from Bill Gates

Ok, this time I've had it. I have been a Microsoft user and developer since Windows 2.0. I have always defended Microsoft. Since the coming of NT which I started with in 1993, I had stable OS for the most part and railed aggainst the hordes moaning constant reboots and blue screens. Stability was especially good in Win2K and then XP. Lately, however, something has been getting mucked up in XP at the driver level (which is the only level really Ring 0 that could) and I have been getting blue screens. Also Norton SystemWorks 2002 hosed my system! So I tried the "recovery" console. Yah right. Can only copy in the windows directory! Tried all sorts of stuff. End of story. Machine re-paved. I lost everything after every attempt to get my data off.

The thing is that I was need a new machine. This is only a 700Mhz and I do a lot of high-end .NET work and such. And it was going to be a laptop. I had every inclination to buy a Mac Titanium PowerBook. Then I relented to my business needs and advice. I would have Office but to my clients, I need to do a lot of VS.NET and VSIP stuff. I settled on a high-end WinBook. I am so pissed right now that I am almost certain I will cancel the order and buy the Mac. This is just stupid. I am so sick of having flakiness and instability. I want something that just works!!!!!

12:39:53 AM    

Rotor Comes to Linux. Shaun Bangay has ported the shared source .NET CLI project, Rotor, to Linux. It's not just for FreeBSD anymore. [O'Reilly Network Articles]

It looks that this has gotten even further, Very cool!

9:29:02 PM    

GACUtil Add-In. I needed a simple way to invoke GACUtil as a custom build step. Utility makefiles were clunky, NAnt was too extensive (but cool) and the BuildRules sample wasn't quite extensive enough. So I built my own. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]

At work, we were looking for something like this or about to build our own as part of our built involves the custom install of multiple PIAs in the GAC. Thanks Chris!

9:27:32 PM    

Please note I'm just getting started, so there's not much in yet. However, if anyone feels like they want contribute, I'd really appreciate it! Just let me know, and I'll set you up with an MT user so you can post directly to the FAQ! [Commonality

You know I do. Whether I'll have any time is another question.

8:15:40 AM