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Welcome to my blog. After much prodding and pushing, I have finally caved in and created a blog. The timing is perfect, since pretty much everything in my professional life is in transition right now, the most significant of which is the start of Pluralsight, a new company focused on content development and training. I am also in the process of researching and writing the next version of my book, Essential ASP.NET which targets the next release of ASP.NET, 2.0 (aka Whidbey). I'm really impressed with the array of new features in the next release, and look forward to sharing my findings through this blog over the next few months. Stay tuned!

Update: fixed the missing trailing tag in the title :-)

Update2: (sorry for those of you receiving this post for the 3rd time)  I can't believe I forgot the element tags in my first post and then neglected to fix them in the last update even. Sorry about that - this was the intended title (and should be last update for this post).

Update3: grrrrrrr... this time I was hindered by a .Text encoding problem - this will be the last update.