HolyCrap! I have the Intel 25 in a machine - very nice. Compliation of one project now takes about 1 min instead of 1:30 (but does have faster CPU too). I recently treated myself to a Quad SSD Vaio (http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vnp-z-series/vpcz11z9e-b) and OMG I am a total SSD convert. I have 2 striped WD Raptor's in my main dev machine and they are much slower than the laptop! So now, after spending far too much on a laptop, it is forcing me to spend more on a desktop ;-)

Jaguar S-Type, Audi A6, and AFAIK, most autos.

I have been having a similar problem with cable (virgin) in south england on and off for a few weeks now. Reseting the modem solves it, as does reseting the firewall. Keep meaning to 'phone them but not had time yet.

FXCop - which deals with compiled code - can be a PITA, but it does catch some nice things (like int overflow). StyleCop only deals with source code - what it looks like and the order of items in a file. The Law

True - more people should use StyleCop.

A bit surprised how few people use Ankh. Version 2+ is great - it is the only SVN VS source control provider that I know of - the others are all plugins AFAIK. Why is this bad, well if you want integration, then why not do it properly - it also makes it much easier to convert people from VSS ;-) Tortoise is a great backup - for infrequent operations like renaming the folder that a project is in.

What I should have said is that IMHO, all shared providers are as bad as each other. Even if they offer 99.999% uptime, the penalties to them are too low (like max of 1 month for free). The main reason I now run dedicated servers is that when they break, I can fix them (or pay to have them fixed). With shared hosts, you have grumpy customers on one hand and a host saying "We are working on it" on the other. So no, I can't recommend one. :(

I have tried many shared hosts over the years. You are looking for something that does not exist (Reliable, shared hosting). If up-time is actually important, get a dedicated server with failover.

Hmm, 21st I think, which is a shame because it would have matched mine - 30th Oct :-)

Just quit!

I'm from the UK and it doesn't happen for me either :p FYI: if you used FXCop, it would remind you to supply the CultureInfo ;-)

So where do you perform validation and where do you implement business rules? In the flex UI???