.NET 2.0 and work stuff
Since Jason went ahead and posted about what what some of us at Telligent have been working on, I figured it'd be safe for me to talk about some of my impressions with .NET 2.0 and such.
When Jason first approached me about joining him at Telligent, he said that some of the projects they had coming down were the types of ones you would look at and say "dang, I wish I working on something like that." After being here for almost a month, I can't agree more. Who would have guessed I would be working on the www.asp.net website and helping get it going in .NET 2.0 b1? And I wouldn't have guessed that I would be corresponding with Microsoft employees on a daily basis (don't get me wrong, you guys are cool, but it is a little intimidating the first time you email someone there... "gosh, I don't want to sound like an idiot...").
After working with .NET 2.0 for a little while now, I have come to love it. It still has a little ways to go before it is ready for prime time, but it is a very nice improvement over 1.1. Some issues I've had include memory issues (Visual Studio seems to have some leaks), incorrect example documentation (C# example for one of the Roles API functions had Page Language="VB" and was missing the opening bracket for the Page_Load), and some items that just aren't fully implemented yet (I know, its beta1). Over all, the list of improvements far outweighs the bad. Generics? I'm in love. The Membership API is so easy to work with... wish we already had it to use on nGallery. And my absolute favorite... the improved IntelliSense. Lists variable names as you type them, so I can easily breeze through code. One of the problems is that now I don't want to go back to 1.1! I want 2.0 now! Somehow, I think I'll manage to wait.