So, there are a lot of great .NET resources out there. And I could list page after page of all the great sites, articles and opinions I've read over the past years. Recently I have been concentrating on the architecture of it all, reading more about the whys, hows etc.

I've added a couple of sites I find to be of the most interest, they've become a part of my everyday check. Adding @hanselman and @kellabyte to my twitter has given me an actual reason to keep an eye on the social networking. I am finding it an actual great way to keep track of these guys actually posting stuff and sharing the stuff they find.

Codebetter(@codebetter) and Devlicio.us have also become sites I keep an eye on. I'm all about learning more about TDD, DI and IoC and these guys have some opinions on this stuff that give me a different perspective.

Finally, tekpub.com has become a site I'm very interested in. I've watched a few of their concept videos and really believe these explain the concepts in such a fantastic way. To any .NET developers wanting to get their heads around some concepts, there are a few free videos that are fascinating. Now I just have to figure out how to convince the ol' ball and chain that $200 a year for videos on programming is a good idea. Right after I convince her of the $300 for a VS2010 license!

For a very long time, I've been completely against "social networking". It's not that I don't like the idea of sharing information with people that care what goes on in my life. It's that I don't think that many people are really, truly interested in what I do.

But, as an experiment in networking, to go alongside my updated development efforts, I've decided to TRY and be more active. Maybe some people will follow me, maybe my development efforts are of interest to people and they may start following. I never know. 

Listening to a lot of the podcasts I've been missing out on for so long has really started me thinking about how these products such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. have really changed the way we live, the way we interact. I'm not even sure they're working the way they were originally intended.

I've been working on web services recently, working on consuming them on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices. In order to step up this effort, I put some additional work into creating services within the Amity-Framework. 

It was this last round of changes that made me decide to put the work up. So, if you wish to get the code, it's available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/amityframework/. 

I'll get a contact form back up on this site in the near future, hopefully there's something good to say about the framework.