12GB on my new i7 920 machine. To be honest, I think its a bit overkill really as I've never seen less than 5GB free! even when running multiple copies of VS 2008, SQL server, VM's, office apps, browsers etc. I have disabled my swap file as it was huge! and have never ran into trouble. I have 8GB on my server (Quad Core) and 4GB on my Core 2 Duo laptop, all running on 64bit windows of course. The only reason I went to 12GB really was that my previous workstation had 8GB, and the motherboards was going to take either 6GB or 12GB and I wasnt going to end up with less on the new machine now was I :) Anyway, memory is so cheap nowadays. and more is always better (as long as you are on x64!) I remember paying 80 quid for 32MB years ago and I only paid slightly more for 6GB! Oh, and did I mention I have 4 monitors too :)

Microsoft have recently released a Chart Library for ASP.Net, see the link below. I haven't used it myself, but it looks interesting. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart[^]

Firefox 3.x with Firebug + Web Developer toolbar addons works for me. I like the debugging features and the way you can graphically inspect and drilldown into the html. Web Dev. toolbar has some nice stuff too. Be careful when you use addons in FF3! I spent about 2hrs trying to track down a Javascript error yesterday only to find that one of the addons had caused it. Still havent worked out which one yet, but after disabling all 22, the error went away! I also had a problem once where one of the addons was causing a double postback each time the page loaded because it was validating the html.