I now work for 4D Telecom. Today was my first day at work, and the better part of the day was spent getting the grand tour and getting introduced to almost everyone (and the server room). The rest of the day was spent trying to figure out some code written for a IVR (Interactive Voice Response System). My co-workers are varied, unlike the pure developers only environments I've worked in before.

More later...

For all of you ( like me) who were frustrated a bit with the new web project system in VS 2005, this add-in resolves some of those issues.

This uses creates a Msbuild  file to give more fliexibility with deploying web projects.

Single assembly for the whole app, with a name of your choice, versioning, assemblies for each directory. Anyways, much more control over the build process.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

Via http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2005/04/22/410903.aspx

(1)   Copy this MSBuild targets file to “C:\program files\msbuild\CrossCompile.CSharp.targets”

(2)   Create a new C# project somewhere called MyApp.

(3)   Use notepad to edit MyApp.csproj. Replace the entire <Import> tag with

  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\CrossCompile.CSharp.targets" />

(4)   When prompted, reload the project. You’ll have to answer a security dialog.

(5)   In VS, click the drop-down that says ‘Any CPU’ and select ‘Configuration Manager’

(6)   Under Active Solution Platform, select <New…>

(7)   Select ‘.NET 1.1’ (pretty cool, eh?) and press OK.

(8)   Build and notice error about System.Collections.Generic. This means its working because generics aren’t supported in 1.1.

(9)   Open Program.cs and delete the line:

using System.Collections.Generic;

     And rebuild.

and removing it kills Windows.

From the Register,

"Sysinternals' Mark Russinovich has performed an analysis of the copy restriction measures deployed by Sony Music on its latest CDs: which he bluntly calls it a 'root kit'. Using conventional tools to remove Sony's digital media malware will leave ordinary users with a dead Windows systems.

While the Sony CDs play fine on Red Book audio devices such as standard consumer electronics CD players, when they're played on a Windows PC the software forces playback through a bundled media player, and restricts how many digital copies can be made from Windows."

Avoid Sony CDs.. if you can.. scary stuff.