Schooling the shit out of me

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.0/3.5 notwithstanding, I have been schooling the shit out of me.
It all started with XML/XSL, didn't know it at the beginning of the month, now I pretty much evangelize it since it solves one of my biggest problems (separation of content, presentation and function).

Then one of our partners in Bursapursuit needed a feed into our top 10 list everyday, I created a web service for them that returns a dataset, figured out how to consume it to test it and gave it to them.

Now, since one of our partners don't know how to consume a web service in a classic ASP environment, I am going to give them an RSS feed of the same thing. Hopefully they would know how to do this.

Because I really really do not want to write a custom program that churns out a top 10 everyday into say a flat XML file.

Then just the other day, one of our sites was behaving weirdly and it only happened under bad lag, I had to figure out how to overried the renderer on .NET to only render a page on a non postback and a non callback.

So in one month I managed the following:-
1) XML/XSL
2) Create/Consume web services
3) Override the renderer on .NET
4) LINQ on .NET 3.5

Cool huh?