Microsoft® Content Management Server 2002 Connector for SharePoint™ Technologies enables you to integrate Microsoft Office® SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows® SharePoint Services 2.0 technologies with Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 to create an end-to-end solution for document publishing.

I saw a demo a couple of months ago, built on the beta which looked very nice.

MS CMS 2002 Connector for SharePoint download

Dino Esposito announces his asp.net 2.0 book, this won't be out for a couple of months, at the same time as the beta 1 (which should hit around Tech Ed 2004 ).

Brain Alvey discoveres unforseen parallels between life in prison and webdesign in the new ALA issue.

herveyw points to some fundamental changes in WSE 2.0, since the technology preview, in how messages are send and recieved.

When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.

Software should be transparent in the way that it fails, as well as in normal operation. It's best when software can cope with unexpected conditions by adapting to them, but the worst kinds of bugs are those in which the repair doesn't succeed and the problem quietly causes corruption that doesn't show up until much later.

Therefore, write your software to cope with incorrect inputs and its own execution errors as gracefully as possible. But when it cannot, make it fail in a way that makes diagnosis of the problem as easy as possible.

Words to live by.

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Finally SQL reporting services has been released. This is a very nice tool for creating reports: interactive, webbased or paperbased.

edit: available on MSDN Subscriber downloads.

Joel Spolsky and Johanna Rothman both have a great advice when sending resumes and cover letters.

Joel suggest you read the resume and coverletter, you're about to send, a couple of hunderd times and Johanna suggests you organize your jobsearch.

[ No, I'm not looking for a new job at the moment. ]

Gus blogs about C# compiler testing and the different tests used to show succes and expected failure.

Encrypt a set of name/value pairs into a single string, which can make passing them in a querystring a little safer. Not that you can trust anything coming from a user, but every little bit helps.

Korby Parnell gives us a peak of the new version of SourceSafe, which will be released with Whidbey (hopefully) by the end of 2004.

[coolbits.nu]