Microsoft has officially released the .NET Framework 3.0! This release comes with a handful of new technologies that I'm pretty pumped about, particularly WPF - The Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is, to greatly oversimplify it, their new framework for developing Windows GUI applications.

I've been teaching WPF this semester at Clarkson and am really thrilled with its capabilities. It's by far the most well thought out and put together GUI API I've had the pleasure of using. Now that I've got my website back up and running, I do plan to post several articles and projects in WPF so you all can get started too.

You can find download links for the framework, SDKs, and visual Studio extensions on this blog post on the .NET FX3 website.

I recently posted a theory that MSN Search Results were tainted in favor of sites that mention Microsoft or Microsoft technologies, because a search for my name yielded only one article on my site, which happened to mention Microsoft (specifically, it was things about microsoft that pissed me off).

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I've been doing a lot of restructuring on my site lately to help improve my google pagerank, completely ignoring the fact that there's other search engines out there. I decided to take a look around and see how I did in other searches.

I went to MSN's search.msn.com and queries "Tim Fanelli". Interestingly enough my Swag Roll is first, followed by only 2 links into my own site, one for my Microsoft category, and my Database category where I use the phrase "MS SQL Server".