Here. In addition to the *mountain* of abstracts I've gotten (more than any DevCon to date), several bloggers have had things to say about the upcoming DevCon: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/30/133950/971#xmlroadtrip (includes a poll for his abstracts) http://www.larkware.com/Articles/TheDailyGrind62.html http://aspnetweblog.com/posts/6141.aspx http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/003064.shtml http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx#nn2003-04-28T06:42:55Z

Here. I'm an HTPC guy from way back, so this sounds cool to me. [ActiveWin.com]

I'm very much looking forward to either iTunes being available for Windows or someone else letting me purchase songs one at a time. In fact, as soon as that happens, my wife [ahem] owes the RIAA several hundred dollars in "back-fees" for "pre-downloaded" mp3s (she's always been very ahead of her time...)

Here. I take this as a sign that the RIAA is finally realizing what's going on. That is only goodness.

Here. Of course, David Chappel tends to appear at more MS-related events than not, so he's biased like the rest of the folks reading this post (well, maybe not as biased as some : ). However, he examines the 2001, 2002 and 2003 CERT Coordination Center's security advisory data and finds that things are definitely moving in the right direction for Windows folk(although not as fast as we'd like, of course).

Here. I've updated XsdClassesGen for VS.NET 2003. For those of you unfamiliar with it (it's never been as popular as CollectionGen for some reason), XsdClassesGen is a VS.NET Custom Tool that generates C# or VB.NET wrapper class source code from an XSD. It's just like running xsd.exe from the command line, but integrated into VS.NET (which is where all tools belong, afaic).

Here. I've updated CollectionGen with code to support both VS.NET 2002 & 2003. It has no dependencies on any VS.NET design-time DLLs, so one binary works for both versions. If you're building custom tools, this should form a good base to support both environments.

Here. Wouldn't it be an interesting world if the three major data structure abstractions, i.e. relational data (tables), graphs (objects) and strict hierarchy (XML) were all first class citizens in the same language? I found this paper quite an mind-bender.