For all you getting this via Atom/RSS (btw, thanks for subscribing), come on by and check out the new blog design. This time I went for a darker design giving a bit of a Vista-ish feel. Also, you will see I finally formally changed the name to NetFX Harmonics to agree with the INSANE decision to rename WinFX to .NET 3.0.

Finally, if you haven't done so already please start using the new feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/FXHarmonics/ to replace to old one. I will soon be discontinuing the old feed.

For all those interested in learning some introductory concepts some lesser known features of JavaScript, I just updated my e-chapter on JavaScript Graphics Development. This an introduction to using JavaScript and Ajax concepts to do manual graphics development. It also touches briefly on concepts involving interactive graphics and widget creation.

• JavaScript Graphics Development

Well, I'm a month into the ACTUAL writing of the C# 2.0 exam and I'm finding it just as fun as I thought it would be. This exam is more advanced than most people are probably going to want it to be, but I just can't imagine WHY someone would want to take a sissy exam. That doesn't help anyone. On the other end of things, anyone who knows Richter's CLR via C# book by heart should do great on this exam.

The only previews I can give at this time are that this exam is really more of a C#/CLR 2.0 exam as I have a sections for reflection and AppDomain management. I also have sections for more controversial things like COM Interop and unsafe code (not too bad-- I'm not about to ask pointer arithmetic questions!). The other thing I can say is that this complements the 70-* certification exams in that this covers the more technical dimension of the CLR, C#, and the framework. It's more like computer science exams than the certification exams. That is, they are more algorithmic than scenario-based.

As I progress, I'm also setting aside questions for a possible CLR 2.0 exam (for my own exam; probably not Brainbench). I figure this exam could cover things like fusion, assembly loading mechanics, CLR internal memory management, identification of core DLLs ( i.e. mscorwks.dll) and other fun topics. I would really like to see "IT" people think MUCH more like CS people; internals and mechanics are VERY good things to know.

Here's a quick update on a few things...

First off the primary feed for this site is now at the below link:

• http://feeds.feedburner.com/FXHarmonics/

Please change all your references to point to the new link. I'll be removing the old one in a few months.

Secondly, since someone had an aneurysm and decided it would be a great idea to confuse the entire planet, WinFX is now called .NET 3.0. Ergo, I'm changing the name of this blog to NetFX Harmonics for the time being.

Thirdly, I'll probably be posting much more content in the near future. Recently I was at an MSDN event and I was amazed at how little everyone (including the presenter) knew about new technologies. There were people who actually asked what SOA event was. I assumed everyone in the Microsoft technical community would be at least somewhat up to date with WinFX (Uhhhh duhhh .NET 3.0) information. Clearly I was wrong. I guess I should start publishing again!