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In today's episode, the .NET community discovers the Wiki...

• Scott has set up a .Text Wiki based on the excellent (and free) FlexWiki. I am a big believer in Wiki's having discovered the original first Wiki about 5 years ago and participating in the early discussions that became Xp.
• Speaking of FlexWiki, Robert and I set up ours on our Intranet at our client for our Morpheus project. FlexWiki rocks! It is much closer to the original Wiki and very functional. We are now using it for all project communciations.
• Still continuing on the Wiki thread, Steve has set up his Furrygoat Wiki and makes the obvious leap to OneNote and the synegy there.
• Joel has written another must-read essay on Software Devlopment and Bi-culturism. While many have in the Microsoft community have leaped on the obvious witty end-slap, the entire essay is actually one of the most balanced and best attempts at explaining the real cultural divide between the Unix and Windows world, in nailing down the key differences while actually doing a good  review of Eric's book.
• Steve mentions the NEO project originating from from ThoughtWorks that I discovered yesterday and will look at today. “Neo, short for .NET Entity Objects, is a framework that provides an object facade for ADO.NET. It creates the DB schema from the object model and provides schema information at runtime allowing for generation of all SQL required for object persistence.“
• Tim Sneath talks about the upcoming Whidbey Console functionality.In the meantime he says , “If you want this functionality right now, I created a little sample for GotDotNet that uses .NET interop to call the underlying Windows API to achieve similar effects. The library is called ConsoleEx, and it supports .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1. It's a good example of how to call into C APIs as well as hopefully being useful in its own right.” Cool!