Yuhuuuuuuuuu. It took a lot more time than i have anticipated but, finally, i manage to release the new version of DataBlock (1.3) as a open source project :). Go here for all the details. THANK YOU very much to everybody who had supported DataBlock so far. Now that this step has been made know that there is a lot more for DataBlock to come. Happy new year everybody.

It's mediocre at best. It does have a very interesting setting but the story is severely lacking. After reading the entire "Lost empire" series i can honestly say that the only books which really worths reading is Star of Cursrah

So the SP1 for Vs.NET 2005 was released. Beware that the installer to this thing is, without a doubt, the most horrific piece of software who emerged from Redmond in a long time. To make the story short....i have started the installer and had only 2 GB of free space. After waiting for 1h the installer stopped with the error code 2908. I kept clicking ok but the installer wouldn't rollback (just kept showing the error message) so i have to kill it. The result.....NET 2.0 redist, VS.NET 2005 and Sql Server were unusable. The installer wreak havoc into the VC++ 8.0 side by side CRT redist. Detailed instructions on how to fix this can be found here If that doesn't work try also to delete the "Policies" folder.
All in one, i'm very very dissapointed by this :(. Lost a few precious hours because that crappy installer COULD NOT verify from the start if it has enough free disk space.

I have played with it last night and here are some initial impressions. It's nicer than FrontPage, it has good CSS support and it does support ASP.NET design (and design ONLY) and that's pretty much where the good parts end. It has below par support for JavaScript (also no debugger). For me personally what makes or brakes a product of this kind is the text editor and although Web Expression has a good editor it's not a match for Aptana.
Expect a review after i'll work with it a little bit longer.

A must read by Clayton Emery. It's probably one of the few Forgotten Realms that doesn't have a "straight to the mill" plot and actually makes you care about the characters. Good stuff....read it.