(this comes across as a product plug, but its well worth it - I try to give credit where its due) 

As time goes on many of us find ourselves in knee deep in Password Hell.  You know how it feels, you have about a gazillion web sites which you have signed up for at some point in time and you have no idea what credentials you used for each.  Many people that I talk to start to consolidate their passwords to a single value, or a set of values and use them across all their logins.  Ask any security guy about the implications for that and he is likely to slap you upside the head.  Not to mention this doesn't play well with those sites which require fairly complex passwords and have policies set which you need to keep them changing after X number of days or whatever.  Another way which I found myself doing quite allot was trying the password reminder function prior to registration.  What a mess ...

If you have never heard of "Cyclomatic Complexity" a good place to start is here. I decided to grab the Reflector Addin by Peli which will examine an assembly's methods and produce a list of code metrics for each given method, one of which is the Cyclomatic Complexity and run it on "mscorlib.dll" and some of the results are actually quite alarming.

Just in this one DLL there are 24 methods that score 50 or higher, the highest being DateTimeParse.ParseByFormat() which scores at 98.  Now if you look at Table 4 in the article I link ...

I have had about 5 people ask me about Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 and Windows Vista, so I thought I would just post it up.

The core links to refer to are:

 Visual Studio on Windows Vista

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1 ...

A few months ago I purchased some of the super cool products listed on the Phidets.com site, specifically I picked up the RFID kit and the blue LCD display. These things are extremely simple to work with, here is some sample code.

As you can tell I really love this VisualWebGui stuff from Guy Peled.  Take a look at the latest ability, its called "Dual Mode". Essentially you build your web site using their technology and you deploy to the Web normally, or deploy as a complete Windows Forms application!  Of course you will have to make special consideration for your business objects and more importantly your data source but its just damn cool.