Happy Reformation Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_Day

You all know about that one, right?

VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Released

It is apparently official, you can now download VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 from MSDN.


http://blogs.msdn.com/brad_mccabe/archive/2005/10/27/485680.aspx


http://blogs.msdn.com/euanga/archive/2005/10/27/485679.aspx

PDC 05 sessions on line

All the PDC 05 sessions are now online (I think it is all of them, but I can't confirm it).

Dificulty: IE only.

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/

New books

I finally got my newest book order.

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams

Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# by Bill Wagner.

If you buy them at Amazon you will spend about $70. I got them from BookPool for $50.

Unfortunatly, this reminds me that I still need to publish my review of my last book: Coder to Developer. (very cheep used on Amazon's web site)

Man, not enough hours in a day.

PDF in Office 12

This comes in the category of "about FREEKING TIME!"

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath will all have PDF support.

Hopefully that means Word can create/edit PDF docs.

Anyway, what in the world took them so long to add this feature?

Also, Word and Excel will also have a new shiny XML format to boot. Just what are we going to do with ourselves now?

Read about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/10/01/476067.aspx