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We are having a heat wave here. Yes, the tempertaures have reached 30 degrees F and after last week's -20F and such, it feels like summer. We're having a huge one year birthday party for Heather today with people like Robert and George coming from work along with 30 or so others. Its always neat to get all the families and kids together to play and celebrate together. Our team and their families are pretty tight knit and we do a lot together. Unfornately Greg and Tracy are off to see the Patriots beat the Colts at Gillette today wo we'll miss them (and their daughter Taylor who is also almost one). I'll blog on the party seperate in the personal area, but here are some quick .NET and related links:

• Our own Robert Hurlbut is speaking on Secure Coding: Best Practices. I have seen him give a version of this talk at our client and it's a great talk. Come by and say hi to all of us if you are in the area.
• Robert also upgraded our project Morpheus FlexWiki to the latest version and ran into some issues with  IISLockdown and URLScan on a Windows XP. As Darrell Norton points out on his blog, for .Net, you can download the specific urlscan.ini files for .Net Production and .Net Development servers.I have been beating on QA and the rest of the team to move all project related communication to the Wiki and reduce useless documentation to a minimum. It makes complete sense, as I have us now on an Extreme Programming weekly release schedule with a daily Standup Meeting. Yes, we release every Friday totally integrated, all Unit Tests passing at 100%, and into “production“ servers for QA to do further tests.
• Clemens on the Fustration and Joy of Installing Longhorn
• Speaking of XP, ServerSide has an excellent article on Unit Testing in .NET
• Also there is an Indigo talk by Don and a Whidbey one by ScottGu. Both exellent!
• Demystifying the Global Assembly Cache, an good starter artcile [via Mike and Robert]
• Vault 2 is in preview [via Mike also]
• Some great CLR stuff from Brad: P/Invoke Perf Tips, String Formatting FAQ, The CLS and Design Guidelines. DotNet Remoting and WebServices: Which One to Choose, Design Guideline Update: Uri vs. String . Whew, you could almost assemble a book out of all these Brad. Add a little bulk and we'll start calling you Brad “Brumme“ Abrams.