A couple of days off and the result is a new dasBlog-theme.

As starting point I took the theme Elegante, changed the colors in the CSS and started changing the templates to my wishes.

Great article on the inner workings of ASP.NET from Rick Strahl:

This article looks at how Web requests flow through the ASP.NET framework from a very low level perspective, from Web Server, through ISAPI all the way up the request handler and your code. See what happens behind the scenes and stop thinking of ASP.NET as a black box.

NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies.
In other words it converts the XML-comments in your code into a nice helpfile.

Stef van Hooijdonk made a great addition for all the NDoc addicts. He made a tool that creates NDoc compatible XML with information on your SQL server Database.

In the article on his weblog he describes the syntax an shows the results.

In our development environment we use log4net to write logfiles. The logfiles are formatted as plain text.

I know it's possible to generate XML files with log4net but never gave it much thought until I read about log4xsl

Most of the time the commercials on TV are a reason to grab you remote and zap to another channel. But when this commercial comes by just turn up the volume and enjoy.

Yesterday I read an article about the commercial and today I showed it at work and ended up in a discussion about how they made it.