Back at work and holding it together. Got two 3.5 hours sleep sessions followed by one 1 hour chunk. He is a great kid with wonderful temperament... I just wish he slept more.

• Distributed Transactions Without Enterprise Services - Don Box shows us that you don't need to install your components into ES just to get DT.
• Numbers of Windows Developers - 6 million professional Windows developers, of which 1-2 million have a clue. :)
• Book Review: Code Complete 2nd Ed - Jim Newkirk gives us a quick review of the testing chapter with a promise of more to come.
• Bigger Disk Extreme - Ooooohh... 1.6TB external drive. I want one! [via The Daily Grind 418]
• Whidbey and Code Gen - Kathleen Dollard, author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET, speaks out on why custom codegen still matters in .NET 2.0.
• Things VB Can Do That C# Can't (Do Well) - Rockford Lhotka chimes in with a few points from the anti-curly-braces camp.
• WebDeploy - I've been threatening to write this tool for more than a year now. Thanks Matt. [via Scott Watermasysk]