Thursday, October 03, 2002

NUnit 2.0 Released. From the readme: "This is the second major release of the xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities." "In the next few weeks we will be formulating the next release trying to incorporate as many requests as possible." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 6:16:41 PM

Ingo has his First day in Boston. Today's been our first day in Boston. This city rocks! Yes, we know, that's why we live here-)  Well, grew up there but up in NH now Let me tell you just one thing: if you like seafood and ever come to Boston, you really have to check out "Legal Sea Food" in Prudential Center (and two other locations). This restaurant really is great. Legal is the best seafood resterant in the country, period.  Update: Ingo and I talked. Not only is he coming up to NH for leaf peeping, but he will be coming to my talk next week. Brian Graf also said he would be in town by then and coming! Man, its going to be quite an audience-) 4:13:47 PM

Matt Powell shows how to make use of asynchronous Web methods on the server side to create high performance Microsoft ASP.NET Web services. 2:37:33 PM

Lamont Adamas: "How I learned to stop worrying and love C#-After arguing for a long time that there's no difference between VB.NET and C#, the author is jumping on the C# bandwagon." Heh, thats me too. 2:23:44 PM

I took Simon's most excellent recomendation on Yassar's (who, as Don told me, is now on his team) Real World XML Web Services: For VB and VB .NET Developers. I rush-ordered this book, 24-hour shipped and read 1/2 of it yesterday. I don't know what to say that won't sound like I'm going to an extreme or paid by Yassar-) but this is the single best Web Services book I have ever read. Its clear, its real-world, it's focused on the right things and its even Keith's favorite Web Services book. Its approach is very readable yet thorough and I'm finally starting to understand Schema. 2:03:09 PM

Don sent me email last night and then he surfaced. 1:54:43 PM

Wow! Greg and I are just knocked out by the response to our Groove Experiments space announcement. We just about have a full house with all sorts of incredible ideas flying around. We already are starting to see the seeds of some valuable experiments and projects that will contribute to the overall community. I like to think of it as a Hive Mind. Its powerful. 1:22:47 PM