Although still an Alpha release it looks promising

The ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help you convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET. It does not make the conversion process completely automatic, but it will speed up your project by automating some of the steps required for migration.

A nice printable 10 day forecast for LA. Packing my shorts....

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.