Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Well, this stuipd box does not save your text if you accidentally navigate away from this page, so I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN, GRRR. Note to ScottW: If you set the content-expires header to a decent sized number (say 2 minutes), it won't try to grab a new page every single time, and keep the stuff you typed if you click somewhere else by mistake.

My search for the best .NET TreeView control is finally over. No offence to the ASP.NET Team, of course, but this control supposedly handles all browsers, not just IE. XML TreeView does it all. I could use XSLT to transform my RSS feeds into a really slick little navigation system. (hint: be looking for this very soon). At only $20, it fits in very well with the way I do business.

Wanted to give you guys the link to download VMWare 4.0 Beta2. This is the latest build, and it's easy to get access to. Why my phone number was a required field, I'll never know, but who cares? It's pretty cool. I'm going to install it tomorrow.

I read this morning that my hometown and current residence, Mesa, AZ, is the nation's 19th safest city. Right on. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the large Mormon population in the city tho ;).

The army is using dolphins to hunt for mines in the Gulf. How frickin cool is that? Something out of SeaQuest. Worried about AlQaeda addtack divers Fear not! Deploy the sea lions (no, not sea monkeys).

I saw a fantastic article today that really says it all. I'm not going to spoil the fun... just go check it out.

This time CNET.com comes through with it's own misinformation. I just read an article on RSS, and I was amazed at some of the valuable resources that were completely overlooked. I love CNET (read: I have yet to be paid), but some times it amazes me what makes it to "print". This is not an attack on the author of the article nor anyone else, I'm just pointing out a trend.

Scoble, always the one in the know, posts his take on what .NET is. My response: good answer. I hope Steve Ballmer was listening.