An ongoing Introduction to MSIL

Just stumbled across this excellent Introduction to MSIL by Kenny Kerr. It kinda' makes my brain hurt... but in a good way.

[Listening to: Static-X - Cold]

Your personality summarized in 26 links.

An intriguing meme found on KC Lemson's blog. lear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list. No cheating now...

A - http://www.adtmag.com/blogs/devcentral/ - Developer Central Blog.
B - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml - 20th Anniversary edition of the HitchHiker Adventure Game.
C - http://c3dsp.westjet.com/internet/sky/checkFlights.cgi - Checking flights on WestJet airlines.
D - http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/ - Picked up this link from some blog. Not into .NET CF so didn't subscribe.
E - http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/ibook.html - bad hardware workaround courtesy of TheDailyWTF.com.
F - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/03-2004/msg00545.html - Oracle news group.
G - http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/0017233&from=rss - /. post on Acclaim's auction.
H - http://www.hack.net/ - Got this from some blogs. Didn't work in Opera. Didn't really try either.
I - http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200412/df20041210.jpg - Cool Darth Santa comic.
J - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/survey.html - Trying to win a resharper license.
K - http://www.kk.org/cooltools/... - Cool Tools
L - http://www.latticesoft.com/Products/LatticeDataMapper.aspx - Persistance Framework for .NET
M - Corporate webmail.
N - http://www.networklifemag.com/ - Another link from another blog. Not subscribed.
O - http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/sightings/index.html - Duct Tape Rules!
P - http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/12/01/2598.aspx - Paul Vick's article on Black Hole projects.
Q - Nothing.
R - http://reviews.cnet.com/... - C|Net product alert page on the ultimate gaming PC.
S - http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/15/0226220&from=rss - /. article on LEGO logic gates.
T - http://tahiti.oracle.com/ - Still looking for Oracle info.
U - http://www.ultimateears.com/ - High end in-the-ear headphones.
V - http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=6099 - Way cool commercial from Toyota - Bugger!
W - http://www.westjet.com/ - Still looking for that flight too.
X - Nothing.
Y - Nothing.
Z - Nothing.

[Listening to: Enya - Athair Ar Neamh]

Cheapskate alert: Free XSLT1.0/XSLT2.0 and XQuery1.0 Processors for Windows

Altova has put together a collection of free tools for the Xml/Xslt/XQuery folks out there. Found via Oleg Tkachenko. WooHoo!

[Listening to: Disturbed - God of the Mind]

XmlPreCompiler / XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Like most people I have struggled too often with XmlSerializer. Mathew Nolton wrote a UI wrapper around Chris Sells'
XmlSerializerPreCompiler called XmlPreCompiler. This should help some.

[Listening to: Faster Pussycat - Slip of the Tongue]

Nine Tips to Enterprise-proof MSMQ

A slightly older (but still useful) link on DevX by Michael Jones: Nine Tips to Enterprise-proof MSMQ. It deals with performance and reliability (usually at odds with each other.)

[Listening to: Crazy Town - Only When I'm Drunk]

Saying No to .NET Remoting

I haven't gotten there yet (or anywhere recently, but that's another issue) but here's some tips from Chris Hewitt about which gives some guidance/recommendations on various distributed communication technologies:
Saying No to .NET Remoting

[Listening to: Weezer - Jamie]

15 Seconds : 10 Steps to a Successful Versioning and Deployment Strategy for .NET

A very useful set of guidelines for versioning, deployment and security from Michele Leroux Bustamante, originally found in this blog entry: 10 Steps to a Successful Versioning and Deployment Strategy for .NET

[Listening to: Eminem - Kids]

Guidelines - a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

A neat little VS gem from Sara Ford: Guidelines - a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor.

Kinda cool. Definitely one of those "My Visual Studio is better than yours" things.

Found via the VSEditors blog

[Listening to: KoRn - Dead Bodies Everywhere]

Deterministic Finalization

Updated: Changed title to reflect the series instead of just the first article

I just stumbled across Andy Rich's blog (I can't remember which blog I got it from -- apologies to the author.) In it he has an excellent series on Deterministic Finalization:

Deterministic Finalization I - a primer for CLR Dispose

Deterministic Finalization II - The C++ DF Model

Deterministic Finalization III - Benefits, part 1

Deterministic Finalization IV - Benefits, part II

I know it sounds geeky but Deterministic Finalization, Garbage Collection, IDisposable, etc really interest me. Such is my life.

[Listening to: Cirque Du Soleil - Carvena]

Creating a partially-trusted AppDomain

Peter Torr expands on a set of blog entries from Shawn Farkas with: Creating a partially-trusted AppDomain.

I'm going to keep collecting these links until I either get it, or give up on it. I put the odds about even on those two.

[Listening to: George Clinton - Play That Funky Music]