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It should only take another 3 days to install ;)

A nice list of tips, plus links to other good resources.

• 8 Tips to Make You a More Efficient as an ASP.NET Developer (via CodeProject)

 

It appears that Microsoft is considering a board-level certification called the Microsoft Certified Architect. (via Eric King)

I think this is an awesome idea, and may put some credibility back into the certification program.  At least there would be one certification that you can't get by simply cramming a bunch of practice exams. 

If I remember correctly, there were several questions regarding this type of certification on a survey put out by Microsoft a couple of years ago.  I'm glad to see that Microsoft is at least pursuing the idea.

I ran across a couple of suggested web sites, and thought I'd pass them along.  I also added them to my list of online resources.

• Object Orientation Tips
• PatternShare

About 11:50 PM last night, my wireless router decided to give up the ghost.  I thought I was just having connectivity problems with my ISP, so I went on to bed.  When I got up this morning, there was still no Internet.  So, I went to the closet to restart my router.  My cable modem, firewall and Vonage adapter all appeared to be in a happy state.  However, my wireless router was lit up like a Christmas tree, and none of the lights were blinking.  All the lights were on, including the LAN ports where nothing is plugged in.  So, I powered it off and back on... same result.  Looks like I'm in the market for a new router.

The new Netgear RangeMax looks interesting.

I spent some time this weekend setting up MySQL and think that I now have it ready for public consumption (for my hosting customers, of course).  I'm running version 4.1.  Version 5.0 (now in Beta, version 5.0.3), is planned to support views, stored procedures, and cursors.