Keith Pleas Blog

Keith Ballinger pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago that the "Copyright Keith Pleas" at the bottom of this blog basically doesn't allow anybody to do anything with my blog. Perhaps even quote it. I asked Scott - who runs dotnetweblogs - about adding a customization option for copyrights, but it apparently didn't make it into the new site he rolled out this weekend.

Julia talks about why she runs a .NET user group. I just couldn't resist making the connection to this past Sunday's Dilbert cartoon about corporate "Customer Support Groups". <vbg>

Chris Kinsman and I taped an episode of the .NET Show on applications architecture with .NET. We did the show with Ed Jerzierski (of PAG) and Mike Burner (of the Platform Strategy Group), and it should be out in May. Lots of stuff to talk about: the architecture community portal I announced last week, new patterns and stuff coming from PAG, and what we learned from our first on-campus architecture event in March and how we're updating things for our next event (now called the "Guided Design .Summit: Architecture and Design for .NET").

The new Microsoft portal  for .NET architecture and design just went live on GotDotNet. This is the community side of the MSDN Architecture site and contains patterns, VS.NET enterprise templates, technical articles, discussion groups, and third party content.

As I mentioned in my previous post (emphasized in the comments by Mike), RSS "views" are the vast majority of accesses. And, yes, they tend to inflate numbers dramatically. The aggregator I'm using - SharpReader by Luke Hutteman - by default refreshes every hour.

Robert is waging a personal war against "traditional" industry pundits (particularly John Dvorak), postulating that they're afraid of the readership that blogs as garnering. So, just how popular are these blogs?

OK, thanks to some noted bloggers (Tim, Don, and Robert in particular) everybody knows that Chris Sells "took the red pill" and joined Microsoft. No doubt, this has caused some people to wonder about their chances of getting hired by Microsoft.

I showed a security example at VSLive this week that simply didn't work. It was pretty straightforward: I put a LinkDemand in a component assembly that looked for a key signature in the caller. It's always worked before, so I didn't think to test it ahead of time. Dumb.