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So the last N&N was February 11th! What have I been doing? Work, work, work. I knew the subsystem that I tackled last November or so was quite big but I never figured it would be this huge and have so many issues to solve. It's now into May and I am still doing all sorts of wacky hours and the rest of the time I am still trying to spend with family. Jonathan is growing up far too fast and he is now almost as tall as my shoulders at 7 years old! Heather, who is 2, is speaking sentences and already running the house as any good Diva should.

So blogging time has been non-existent. What am I doing up at this stupid hour? Getting in some geek time with both my MAC OS/X, where I am playing with lots of UNIX type stuff and trying to get a full XWindows/KDE/GNOME thing going, and my laptop where I am using DesktopX and Window Blinds to re-create an entire OSX Tiger type look and feel (I can do Longhorn do better than the Longhorn builds). That's in addition to starting the slides for both DevTeach and VSLive! Boston and dealing with Whidbey Madness.

• Speaking of Tiger, it went out Friday. I am going to go down to CompUSA to pick it up in the Morning, well, later this morning. I must say, that whatever the aledged 200 new features are, I feel robbed by Apple that they get a ridiculous $129 for each point upgrade from me. Give existing owners a break!! Ars Technica has an excellent review BTW.
• Mitch Denny has an outstanding introduction to MSBuild in Whidbey Beta 2. I have not paid much attention to MSBuild for about 12 months now having spent a lot of time in it earlier in the Whidbey alpha cycle but I should return. Think NAnt but better. In fact, put all your build scripts in NAnt today for 1.1 and it should be a pretty easy move to MSBuild for 2.0. In fact, NAnt now does .NET 2.0 Beta 1 and 2.
• Whoa! Don is reporting a sweet Dell 24 inch LCD 1900x1200 for just over $1000!
• Also via Don, a must-read Jim John piece on Kernel-Mode Transactions and TxNTFS.
• Of course, I have had zero time for my Pythin explorations, but John Gossman has Python posts around explorations with IronPython which I really need to get to: Python Fun, Hosting Python in an Avalon Textbox, Futher Fun Hosting Iron Python, and Aurtomating the Hosting application using IronPython
• Jamie has fixed the Test With Debugger issue that TestDriven.NET had with Whidbey
• Charlie Pool has updated the NUnit Vision statement
• HowTo: Get Enterprise Library to work with Whidbey Beta 2

• The .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Developer Redistributable is now available. The download is intended for developers with Visual Studio .NET 2003, it contains the SP3 CAB files:
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