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Ever since I set up this site, somewhere in September 2003, and added my resume, I have received quite a lot of messages from recruitement agencies. Today I received another, enjoyable, offer for a job.

There has been a lot of buzz going on lately about the upcoming ASP.NET 2 release. Together with Visual Studio 2005 this will be a large milestone in the development of dynamic and database driven Web sites.

The betas of Visual Studio 2005 have made quite an impression so far. Both the Express versions as the full version of Visual Studio 2005 (available to MSDN subscribers only) have been around for some time. But what to do with them? It's fun to give the tool a little test drive, read about the new controls, master pages, the skins and themes engine, the cool membership and role management modules, personalization, better integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other cool new features.

But with the release date so far away ("somewhere" in 2005) is it any good to you?

Over the weekend, I designed and implemented a new feature: Talk Back aka User Comments.

This weekend I finally moved all my Web sites and databases to my new server. Everything went pretty smooth, although I am sure there'll be a few small problems.

Things have been quiet around here for a while; It's been more than three weeks now since I published my last article. But I have good reasons.....

With today's site update I have protected the Contact page with a CAPTCHA security mechanism. CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart" and can be used to prevent automated attacks on pages that allow a user to submit Comments, Contact details, Orders and so on.

I have been playing around with Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and I must say I am pretty impressed.

Lately I haven't made much changes to the site; most features are ready and work as expected. I fixed a few bugs in the Voting Controls (and added enhanced design time support for them; a topic I might write an article about some day) but that's about it.

I would like to welcome a new author for my Web site. Peter Lanoie has offered to contribute articles and FAQs to my Web site whenever he finds something interesting to write about.

Regular visitors may have noticed a new feature on the details page for articles, news and other categories of the site. The Details section of the page now has a Listened To item.