So I'm spending yet another weekend trying to get my basement finished. For a number of reasons we are going to put our house on the market in the next couple of weeks and I think a partially finished (as in "not done yet") basement is worse than an unfinished basement.

My favorite tool so far? The HILTI DX350 Powder Actuated Nailer. Gunpowder and nails? Damn straight!

• VS.NET 2005 + BTS2004 - Scott Woodgate talks about the issues involved with running Whidbey on a BTS04 machine. Why someone would do this is beyond me, but...
• Better, Faster, Lighter Programming in .NET and Java - Justin Gehtland takes his principles from the Java world to .NET and finds they fit just fine.
• Amazing Code Generation - Over the last year I've talked to Scott Hanselman a bit about how he uses codegen at Corillian, but this blog post gives some of the biggest hints I've yet seen him write.
• NUnit 2.2 Beta 3 - More bug fixes...
• The Difference Between Potential and Reality - This is hilarious!
• Death Star (Not) Found Orbiting Saturn - It sure looks good to me... [via James Avery via Dave Donaldson]