Whew, I need a vacation from my vacation. The two weeks in Denver and Boston were great, I got to spend good time with family and friends, but it's tough balancing everything. I even worked a good bit while on “vacation.”
I have a tutorial on DotNetJunkies that was published over the holiday, it's a follow up to the post I made here about custom server control creation. I got enough emails from people who wanted me to follow through on the custom control example, so I finally gave in. I had to crank the article out very quickly, so I'm not 100% happy with it, but DotNetJunkies needed it in short order. In my opinion it's > mediocre but < fantastic. Check it out and judge for yourself.
Speaking of material cranked out quickly, I've been looking over ASP.Net 2.0 Revealed by Patrick Lorenz (he purportedly wrote the base copy in 6 weeks time). Those crazy Germans. It seems very rough around the edges (with typos and editing oversites), but speaks to Whidbey topics in a very direct manner and I kind of like the fact that it's not so polished. I've also been reading through A First Look at ASP.Net 2.0 by Homer, Sussman, and the illustrious Rob Howard.
Both books seem pretty good -- they collectively made up for me not having Whidbey installed over the holiday break . . . installing Whidbey is on my list of todos for January since an upcoming project will require it (it's a long story...). Unfortunately, my workload will likely prevent me from doing the INETA development I wanted to do. Maybe later this Winter. More later.
Happy .Netting!