Clearly, I speak and Microsoft responds. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 just became available in MSDN subscriber downloads. You're welcome.

I discuss the VB6 / VB.NET petition in my latest column for SD Times.

Eric Rudder: “...even if it's March 38th or 43rd, we will deliver [Whidbey Beta 2] in March....”

I mean, here it is tax day and we're all filled with gloom. Can't anyone do anything to relieve my depression?

NTeam is a GotDotNet project that aims to integrate, for small- to medium-teals, Open Source alternatives to the features of Microsoft's VSTS. In an EWeek article discussing it, Eric Sink of SourceGear, says that “It is inconceivable that a community project could produce a Team System clone, which is truly …

“Sincerity is not enough.” We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Nail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism.

Get yours.

This is a helpful image from Michael Russell. I don't like the fundamental concept of “role-based“ IDEs but it looks like that's what we're going to have:

The headline in this survey in Computerworld is that C# is the most-used corporate development language, but my eye caught on some other numbers:

22% of respondents said they were developing 64-bit applications. 24% said they were developing wireless applications. Both those numbers are total bull. Both those areas require …

My notes on Bill Gates knighthood ceremony finally were posted on Friday.

In which I extoll the power of Agilix InfiNotes and show source code for note-taking applications on the Tablet PC.

A comedy writer named Nate Kushner received an IM from a college student, who commissioned him to write her a paper on Hinduism. Because it’s on Hinduism, Kushner could refer to such things as the “Shudahelupta class,” without necessarily alerting the student that she was turning in a patently …