Found  this gem on Miguel's RSS feed.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Feb-25.html

VSPrjMake is VS 2003 add-in that helps develop Mono applications using VS 2003. The add-in creates a make file and tests the application using the Mono runtime. The post links to tutorials on how to use this..

The best browser just got even better. Check it out while its hot

http://labs.opera.com/news/2006/02/07/2/

1. Rich text editing with GMail works fine.
2. Mousing over a tab shows a preview of the page.
3. Bittorrent search built-in.
4. Contect blocker, (block ads )
5. Formatted, colorized HTML source viewer..
6. Widgets support and more , just try it out

On the other hand I tried out IE 7 beta on a vmware virtual machine and it does not come close to O9 !!.

 http://www.urlrewriting.net/ has a free URL re-writing HTTP module for ASP .Net with source code. This supports regular expressions. This is a must have for every ASP .Net developer. I haven't compared this to the Apache mod_rewrite module yet, which I would say is very powerful.

My view is that URL rewriting is best implemented in the web server (IIS), just like the implementation in Apache. This would give URL rewriting functionality regardless of the file type served. I have yet to see a (free ? ) URL rewriting module for IIS, that gives all the features of Apache mod_rewrite.

Will we see this in IIS 7 ?

After adding an extra 1 GB of RAM, I found that my laptop will not hibernate. This is a bug in Windows XP. A bit of Googling got me here;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909095

However, the fix is not available for download yet. You have to call MS support and they will email the fix. I somehow got the patch. Download it here, extract the file to a folder and install.

Typing this post from my laptop with a 1 GB upgrade. Total memory is now 1.5 GB. Can now run SQL server 2005, and VS 2005, and running Azureus in the background :).

Among other things, I've been pretty busy with work and there hasn't been much to blog about. My UK visa issues have now been sorted out, and I can now work here without any restrictions.

There is a new show on Channel 4 called the IT Crowd. The episodes are available online, and watch it if you can.