I use dasblog as my blogging tool. Dasblog is an open source .net weblog engine. I have created my first dasblog theme called "Almostspring". This theme is inspired from the "almostspring" theme for wordpress.

You can download the theme from the below URL and feel free to use it.

almostspring.zip (14.07 KB)

CAPTCHA out, Akismet in.

Though CAPTCHA is a great way to filter spam,it makes commenting an annoying experience if the text in the image is really hard to read. Akismet is a spam filtering service for comments and trackbacks. Dasblog suppports Akismet and I have enabled it in my blog. I have not seen any spam so far. Looks like Akismet is swallowing the spams successfully. Whoo!!

This  is a huge leap from version 1.1. Now developers are not tied to using Microsoft Products for storing data. This provides a lot of flexibilty to the architects.. I particularly like the Session State Provider where now I can store session data in an Oracle Database. Way to go!!!

C# code examples for the popular Head First Design Patterns book is available for download from here.

Structural, Real-World and .Net Optimized examples for all the 23 GOF pattern's is available at the data & object factory website.

Here is Scott's list of Ultimate Visual Studio.Net addins.

Looking at Scott's list of interview questions was a rude awakening to me! I miserably failed to answer most of them :(

ShivPrasad Koirala's book is a good book to start with. It's kind of a ready reckoner.

Another list of Interview Questions.