Outage...again...

Sorry, I had some downtime over the weeken - I was away for the Easter break and so was only able to restart just now. If you've sent me any mail over the last couple of days, chances are I haven't recieved it.

Lost it for a while but found it again...ILMerge - merge multiple assemblies into a single one (can make deployment easier)

I was reading SampoSofts blog when came across this which links to ILMerge, this is a little tool made by MSR (who are kind of the smartest guys at the smartest compnays - i.e., pretty smart!). What this does is combine multiple assemblies into one - why would…

Hmm...should I ditch .NET?

OK, let me start by saying that I enjoy working in C# / .NET more than I have any other language / framework in my working life. The problem is, that's just not enough. The simple fact is that I've chosen to live and work in Scotland and this severly limits my…

nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET

I've been doing some work on using MSCMS2002 and have had to look at ways to implement search (by default it doesn't have it and requires that you buy a much expensive Sharepoint license) well, I revisited the nLucene project - this had stalled for a while but…

Excellent article on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Caching features from G. Andrew Duthie

Really exciting changes by the looks of it - not long now before we can actually use these features (well about a year). Anyway, a usual an excellent article from G. Andrew Duthie (or G. for short).