Over the last couple of weeks I've been in the process of rebuilding my primary workstation at home, installing server 2008, hyper-v, creating VM's, etc. I finally got around to importing my RSS feed list and found plenty to catch up on. This post is basically just a series of links to posts that I've missed over the past couple of weeks.

• Asp.Net MVC Source Refresh posted by ScottGu - The latest source code for the upcoming MVC addition to Asp.Net has been posted on CodePlex. The official preview 3 release is due in a couple of weeks and will provide a "hassle-free" installation. Scott points out that the unit tests for the MVC project have been released, and that they are using MSTest (no surprise there) and Moq, an open source mocking framework.
• Hanselminutes 109 Dynamic Data - Scott interviews Scott Hunter, Sr Program Manager @ Microsoft about the Asp.Net dynamic data project. The most important thing I took away from this pod cast was that Dynamic Data is not a tool to create prototype web sites or scafolding. This was just the first demo, and unfortunately it has left some negative impressions.
• Building a HTPC posted by Jeff - This is an amazing post showing how cheap you can build a kick ass HTPC using the new AMD 780G platform. The 780G has a ATI HD3200 chipset which supports HDCP and decoding of blu-ray. I may just look to sell my old AMD Operton 165 parts to finance a HTPC running on the 780G platform. I decided to order the Kill-A-Watt power meter recommended by Jeff as well to see how much it's costing me to run 3 folding instances on my new box ;)
• NET Micro Framework vs. Microsoft Robotics Studio, Introduction to Port-Based Asynchronous Messaging, Phidgets Robotics Programming in C# posted by Dan Vanderboom - That's three posts from Dan, all of which hit close to home. I've been working with the Phidgets RFID reader for almost a year now and taking advantage of Robotics Studio on the Compact Framework sounds vary promising.