Jeff Sandquist send me an awesome blogging the PDC shirt.

Link to pictures of the 'blogging the PDC" shirt, since I don't have a digital camera.

Jeffrey McManus created order from chaos. If only someone would do the same with all other sessions and tracks.

ScottGu has a great tip how to use include files for your XML doc comments.

Jesse has some strong feeling on the GPL, which I can whole hartedly agree with.

Yelling doesn't work

Jeffrey McManus is blogging ScottGu's presentation on Asp.Net 2.0. Personal highlights for me would be the default XHTML, css-p support, the enhanced Intellisense (including singlefile pages) and Frontpage server extensions are no longer required.

Update: ScottGu summarizes the event aswell.

While browsing the inner workings of the XmlSerializer class with  Reflector (a must have tool) I noticed the Activator.CreateInstance( Type ) method. This method is much more readable, than the Type.GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes).Invoke(null) I used before.

Joel wrote an excellent article on handling different charactersets in software.

In this article I'll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about "plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits" is not only wrong, it's hopelessly wrong, and if you're still programming that way, you're not much better than a medical doctor who doesn't believe in germs. Please do not write another line of code until you finish reading this article.

I believe this is the first pic of Don's new haircut on the internet. (Don's on the left, being kissed by Chris Sells)

(source: Yosi Taguri )

Please, if your name is Stuart, help Stuart reach his ultimate goal.

update: the post on Stuart's blog seems to be gone.

update2: Stuart recreated his earlier post from memory and I fixed the link.