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To recap, lazy programming is not necessarily the easiest path in the short-term. The lazy path is the most efficient in the long-term to understand, reuse, maintain, and extend. Over time, the lazy paths waste the least time, money and energy. Being perfectly lazy often requires some hard work up front to ensure these long-term goals are met.

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The problem with portals is that they require tending. Whether you're building a developer hub for .Net or a launchpad to find recipes, it takes a human to moderate, tend and prune. What if a hub contained well-designed searches instead? When the design goal is to return a set of possible solutions, why not create a self-maintaining solution? 

I made the sojourn to Kate's EoT.NetUG (you can tell by the sheer length of the acronym she's a C++ guru), and had a blast. Not only did she bring in the deep expertise of Sam Gentile for tonight's meet, but had the foresight to book an LCBO-sanctioned hall, so once the main seriousness was complete it became an instant social occasion. Kudos.

I'm happy to announce that the Toronto SharePoint User Group will have its first meeting on April 13.

It's amazing that the popularity of RSS is still mostly restricted to techies and high school bloggers. Don't believe me? Ask your mom. What this probably means is that there is a large surge yet to come as aggregators are built into apps that people use on a daily basis like Outlook, or a dedicated feature of MSIE). Or maybe the status quo folks are happiest reading from pre-formatted websites. When a friend asked about RSS, I put together a quick list of sites to get started.

Yay, I've been waiting for this one...

Whew, first MD-4, then MD-5 along with a few others, and now this. Both SSL and PGP make use of use SHA-1, and something you may be familiar with known as the .NET signed assembly.