After a long silence, I will continue blogging on .NET. The becoming post will be a book review (one is confirmed for now). Timeframe is in a few weeks. Tech tips are still on hold, it's harder to write new tips on ASP.NET anymore, feels as if everything is almost immediately covered after the product launches so planning a writing serie ...

Interesting stuff : http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2009/05/22/what-s-new-in-the-bcl-in-net-4-beta-1-justin-van-patten.aspx My favorite features are parallel extensions, code contracts (I was familiarized with them thanks to Peli ), memory mapped files and compression improvements. Hell, any improvement to the current state ...

If you do, then head to ASP.NET Forums / ASP.NET Beta 1 Forum And if you look for where to get VS2010 / ASp.NET 4.0 Beta 1, then have a look at here 

You're blessed to be web developer nowadays :-) Lots of interesting releases by MS lately: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 http://haacked.com/archive/2009/03/18/aspnet-mvc-rtw.aspx  download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en source: ...

I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursday and sit down and chat with many well-known experts like Peli de Halleux, Scott Galloway as well as hang around at ...

I just noticed a very interesting announcement by Scott Guthrie. Microsoft will officially start co-operating with jQuery development community, adding support for jquery in ASP.NET Ajax, and which also includes Microsoft PSS e.g they take support cases. Read more here.

I'm also member of AspInsiders. In case you've wondered who they are and what they do, see Rob Chartier's blog post. There's nothing mystical in AspInsiders, it's just a group of trusted individuals  sharing passion especially for ASP.NET.

I'll be presenting at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group this evening at 6pm.  The talk will be a slightly modified version of my Black Belt ASP.NET Performance talk that I gave earlier this month at Tech Ed in Orlando.  According to their web site, the user group will also be giving away a Zune to one of the attendees of tonight's ...

I'll be presenting to the Ann Arbor .Net Developer's Group in two weeks on ASP.NET Caching Best Practices.  The meeting starts at 6pm at SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor.  You can find more information about the group and meeting location here: AADND.org