My most recent article is up on MSDN: An Extensive Examination of Data Structures: Part 1. This is the first in a proposed six-part series on data structures in the .NET Framework. From the article's summary:
This article kicks off a six-part series that focuses on important data structures and their use in application development. We'll examine both built-in data structures present in the .NET Framework, as well as essential data structures we'll have to build ourselves. This first installment focuses on defining what data structures are, how the efficiency of data structures is analyzed, and why this analysis is important. In this article, we'll also examine the Array and ArrayList, two of the most commonly used data structures present in the .NET Framework.
In case you're interested, Part 1 provides an introduction to the article series, discusses analyzing data structures, and examines the Array and ArrayList data structures. It's not too meaty a topic, seeing as it is the first in a six-part series. Part 2, which has been written but has yet to be published, is more interesting examining the Queue, Stack, and Hashtable classes in detail.
In other news, I (finally) upgraded ScottOnWriting.NET (and the other blogs I run using .Text) to the latest version - Version 0.94. The transition was incredibly smooth and only took a few minutes - kudos to Scott Watermasysk. Now, if I can find the time I'd like to convert NBAWebLog.com to a mutliple blog, and allow other NBA bloggers to host their NBA blogs there... spent a few minutes trying to convert it from an individual blog to a multiple blog, but had no luck.
I've been so busy lately, it's not even been funny. Meh. I wish I could take a one month vacation. Waa waa waa. Actually, I recently got back from a short vacation to Catalina. We stayed at a swank hotel, here's a view from the room. And, for those who have not met me but are dying to have a picture of me that they can print out and hang on their cubicle, here is a picture of me on hotel's balcony. (The astute observer will note that the red t-shirt I have on was handed out by Sams Publishing at the ASP Connections conference at New Orleans in April 2001. My fashion sense is so 2.5 years outdated.)