Here. Check out this Outlook Add-In that checks your emails for angry words (and attachments and Reply All and a bunch of other stuff) before you send it.

Here. The Transaction Processing Performance Council has posted non-clustered tpmC results for the pre-release WinServer 2003 Datacenter edition that shows it to be w/in 5% of the top spot (Solaris 8) for less than half the price. The machine running WinServer 2003 was a 32-way NEC Intel Itanium2 box, while the Solaris machine was a 128-way Fujitsu SPARC64 box, which probably accounts for the difference in price/performance ($12.98 vs. $28.58, respectively). The big news is that with WinServer 2003 Datacenter, MS jumps past the IBM/Oracle best of 427,760 tpmC and $17.75 price/performance.

Here. "Stop looking over your shoulder and invent something!" David Stutz, ex-VB architect and ex-Rotor architect has some parting advise as he becomes an ex-MS architect. [jepstone.net]

Here. In attending a summit on code quality recently, we each shared the techniques we use in screening/hiring a programmer. This story provides a summary.

Here. From Craig Andera: I'm sure someone, somewhere has already written this, but I figured it out on my own today, and it's just too cool not to share. Basically, it's a bit of code that lets me store objects in my application or web configuration file, and all I have to do is write the type that holds the values.

Here. Here's how my full quote [1] was cut down for publication. That'll teach me to be thorough. : ) [1] http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#mspatents

Here. From Shawn Wildermuth: This is a link to Chris' new article on how he figure out why ThreadAbortException was being thrown by using the Rotor code...Like he's always said, the real documentation in in the source code...

Here. From Pierre Nallet: I just released eXtensible C# (XC#), a companion to Visual studio and C#. XC# supports - Obfuscation - Code coverage - Declarative assertions - Partial code verification - and more... XC# can be downloaded for free at www.resolvecorp.com