Not much to talk about the geek front. I’ve been pretty consumed by my efforts to get a handle on ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2005 (and, to a lesser extent, Web Developer 2005 Express which is, as mentioned, free). I have Visual Studio on one machine and the Web Developer thingy on another. There are some differences, of course, but really… the stuff I’ve been doing so far is fine with either. So for learning purposes, go free. 
Still waffling on picking out a book. I spent 30 minutes the other day standing in front of a shelf full of books on these topics but just couldn’t quite pull the trigger. I’ll probably go try again today; Now that I have another couple days invested I’m hoping I have a better idea of what I’m after. I’ve had this Murach’s book suggested to me, so I might look at it a little more today.
Meanwhile, I’ve found a couple of decent tutorial type things on the web. One is the ASP.NET Quickstart tutorial and the other appears to be associated with a college course. Both have been helpful so far. Tons of resources on the web but takes a fair amount of time to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I should add that in spite of my whining and waffling, I have actually made some progress in building a functioning little prototype app.
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March 25th, 2006 
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