Thanks to those who responded to yesterdays incorrectly worded request about display problems with the feed. I think it might be down to some strangeness in the feed generated by FeedBurner – more investigation to follow.

Software

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer – Released last week – this is the January 2008 update

Announcing Graffiti Beta 2 – Telligent release the latest beta of their new CMS software

Information

Defensive Coding best practice – Derik Whittaker talks about null reference exceptions and how you can help to avoid them by being defensive in your code

SQL Server Version Numbers – That @@version number means my SQL Server is running what SP? – Greg Duncan gathers together the different version number and their corresponding service pack numbers

Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD – Phil Haack talks about the evidence to support TDD as an effectiveness enhancer for developers

Obtain System Information Using Windows Management Instrumentation Calls – A good overview of tools and methods for working with WMI to obtain information from Windows.

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen investigates Open ID and implements Open ID Authentication in ASP.NET

ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit – Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 – Brad Abrams talks you through upgrading the Personal Web Site Starter Kit to take advantage of the new features of VS2008 and .NET 2.5

Community

Get Ready for SQL Server 2008! – Details of a free virtual conference to be held tomorrow.

Wanna Blog on ASP.NET ?? – weblogs.asp.net are after some new bloggers to join the ranks along side their well known bloggers

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