Didn't see it at the cinema so bought the DVD. Whilst the cast and the locations are great, the rest of the film didn't really keep me interested, it's a bit dull (with a small 'd') and not as much fun as the book. 4/10. National Treasure was much more fun.

If there's just one more ASP.NET 2.0 book you buy before the year is out then it should be 'Developing More-Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications' by Dominick Baier. I haven't read the book cover to cover yet but chapter 8 - 'Partial Trust ASP.NET' alone should have you running to the bookstore to get this title if you care about securing your ASP.NET 2.0 infrastructure.

I've been playing around and I think if I was forced (i.e. there was a loaded shotgun pointed squarely between my eyes) to do a project using just open source tools I might actually consider it. Go on and dip your toe in the water... grab these...

http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/
http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/browse.asp?ref=784040.

...and give it a whirl, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

I try to keep the blog free of trivial link-fests but this is well worth a visit at coffee break -

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

This is more of a bookmark for myself than anything else but I thought I'd share -

.NET Framework 1.x

MS .NET SDK documentation -
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mail(VS.80).aspx

The eternally famous -
http://www.systemwebmail.com/

.NET Framework 2.0

MS .NET SDK documentation -
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail(VS.80).aspx

And of course the sister site to http://www.systemwebmail.com/
http://www.systemnetmail.com/


CDOSYS

MS CDOSYS SDK documentation -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_cdo_messaging.asp

CDOSYS and sending mail using port 25 -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_clb_sending_smtp_mail_by_port_25_using_cdosys_vbs.asp

The guys at PowerASP have heaps of handy examples -
http://www.powerasp.com/content/new/sending_email_cdosys.asp

CDONTS

MS SDK documentation -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cdo/html/264c6b14-d93a-426a-be96-3a31c958e6c8.asp

More stuff at PowerASP -
http://www.powerasp.com/content/hintstips/asp-email.asp