Jon Galloway

You wouldn't know it from the recent posts on my blog, but I've been writing a lot lately. Last week I turned in the first draft for the final chapter of the book I'm co-writing with Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, and K. Scott Allen. It's an ASP.NET "tips and tricks" book, but I think the content is a little different than most cookbook style programming books. The information is geared to strong intermediate to advanced developers, and the topics include things like binary content, search engine optimization, troubleshooting slow queries, log4net, ASP.NET AJAX, etc.

SubSonic 2.0 (the zero code data access layer) just hit Beta 1 today. Download it, marvel at all the cool new features, and get your feedback in quickly because they're planning a really short beta phase with a final release as early as next Wednesday.

DotNetKicks is a nice social bookmarking system (like Digg, Reddit, etc.) that's specific to .NET development issues. Users submit cool links, other users vote on it, popular links show up the front page and in an RSS feed. It lets you know what's going on in the .NET world right away without having to spend every second of the day scanning thousands of blogs.

I registered for the MIX07 conference today, and decided I needed to add a MIX07 badge to my blog. I spent a little while looking at the official MIX07 badges and decided that, while they're very slick and exciting, they just don't speak to where I'm at right now. I realized I had no choice but to create a few of my own MIX07 badges.