Where we are heading!!!

There is a good article at ITArchitect describing the next stages on the .net journey. Find it here at http://www.itarchitect.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=108. The final outcome (???) is Windows Longhorn via .net V2.0, Avalon, Indigo and of course Whidbey (does anybody at ms get payed to think these names up?). Must admit, can't wait to get my grubby hands on VS 2005. I have been playing arround with Visual Web Dev 2005 Express, it's pretty cool, but at the moment I am of course only using 1.1 in deployment projects.

On another front, I have been using Gemini bug tracking tool to keep track of all those pesky little blighters that can hamper development. Since installing it, I have already started decreasing my bug-list. It can be downloaded from http://www.countersoft.com. For a one person liscence, it is free, yahoooo!!!

Phew another mini project complete

I have just finished work on another website for a conference we are organising. It's only a small site, but sometimes even the smallest sites can eat up your time. I am hoping to get cracking on writing the new dotnetdiary site like right now. I have all the tutorials from the pre-hacked site, so at least I have something to build on. I have a couple of downloads to add aswell which some of you may be interested in.

So MS have launched a new search tool. I tried it the other day by putting my name in and seeing what was out there, well it turned up an online course in Astrophysics which I created some years ago for my BSc.

I am currently doing a Masters in Computing and was thinking of researching search methods for the web. Early days, but I am starting to gather info already.