G. Andrew Duthie points us to the new ASP.NET Community Starter Kit. Gotta check that out, since it's my job to help build communities around the PDC.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Who's weblog is doing the best job for Microsoft? I've been meeting with dozens of developers (both inside and outside Microsoft). Really hard core code slingers. By far the name that I hear the most often is Chris Brumme. That guy is doing a weblog that is way and above the rest. He makes my [...]

Yahoo Patches IM & Chat Software. Security consultant Bruce Schneier warned about the ubiquity of buffer overflow programming design flaws in his 2000 book, Secrets and Lies (still the best book on computer security I've seen). He gave tips on how programmers could avoid them. However, they continue to proliferate. Yahoo has just now caught up the the issue. [...]

Here's one for Scoble. Register: “”Microsoft allegedly opened up Windows APIs last year, and Devos had some pithy comments on the subject. Now, Devos claims that Microsoft's disclosures remain sufficiently inaccurate and incomplete for developers to continue using his own documentation. His 'monopoly-breaking' software is the latest version of NSELib, the Namespace Extension Library. Namspace [...]

Proposed New EU Constitution. From UPI: “A proposed European constitution…calls for an elected president of Europe and a binding bill of rights, but at… [beSpacific]

The Technology is Cooler as a Solo. Vaio, Worldox, Enfish, CaseMap, ActiveWords, Lexar. Got something new for me to try? I've been experiment with some new hardware and software. It's so much easier to do as a solo than in a small firm. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Electronic Order in the Court. Courtrooms have been among the last workplaces to embrace technology, but courts are now taking their place in the wired and wireless worlds. By Sherri Day. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

More proof that efficiency will matter to in-house lawyers who hire law firms. “Mobile phone operator O2 has instituted a radical new initiative in its legal department, which will include slashing its current panel of 38 law firms by two-thirds. … The litigation and mediation group of O2 is studying previous O2 disputes to assess whether they [...]

Paper Lawyer Directories Struggle Against Net. Interesting article from Law.com: “In 2000, Chicago's Sidley & Austin decided it no longer wanted to be listed in Martindale-Hubbell. At the time, firms of Sidley's size were paying Martindale around $250,000, said a source familiar with the directory debate. Sidley & Austin, which went on to merge with [...]

Trinity hacks into the power grid.  Geeks enter the Matrix. Hollywood gets hacking right in The Matrix: Reloaded, warming the hearts of the “skilz” squad in its spot-on outline of how to gain root. Real-life hacking is about as exciting to watch as paint drying, which could explain why Hollywood usually ignores the technical details [...]