I've just finished updating my blog to dasblog 1.7

More posts are coming soon

For those who like to be upto date with tech news ...etc like myself. I've come accross the VS 2005 news blog today, and decided it is worth adding to my Blogroll!

If you haven't come accross it before... here's the url: http://blogs.msdn.com/vs2005news/

A question came up today on the NZ.NET mailing list about using 2 web.config files for admin authentication and user authentication using one Form for both. Nic blogs about an article on how do deal with this, see his blog here

Right, so for quite a while, I had VS 2002/2003 running along with SQL 2000 on my machine. Now, I have the DVD’s for both VS .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 which leaves me one step away from upgrading my machine ( I don’t have a DVD reader yet!). I expect to go buy one very soon in order to get myself setup for the future of Development!!

Just received my copy of the Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta 2 and Visual Studio .NET Team System, cooool, been waiting for them for a while now.

Time for some playing around... Will post my experiences soon.

It appears to me these days, that in industry people use software tools such as VS.NET and others to create software, while in many academic instutions in the fields of Computer Science and equivalent. Students learn hardcore programming and use tools such as emacs ...etc. As well as lecturers emphasising that we need to know how to program ...etc and have good low level technical knowledge and so on. However tools like VS.NET ...etc help make people more productive.

My conclusion from all of this. I think today's people in the technology industry that use IDE's are probably - Smarter Developers - as they do things in a more productive way - but possibly Dumber Programmers than the people who started programming in the 60's ...