It’s been a very busy week in which I think I’ve written more code faster than I have in months.  All in all a pretty productive time for me.  Key learning for this week include:

• CodeSmith is a pretty groovy tool, although I wish the documentation was better, particularly for writing extensions.  On the other hand, it does most of what I need it to, and free’s a great price J.  There’s so much more you can do besides strongly typed collections.
• Custom attributes have got to be one of the coolest features of .NET.  The ability to carry around arbitrary, strongly typed data about your classes that you can ask for whenever you need it is such an amazing boon that I don’t think I can say enough about it.  
• NAntPad is a very promising step in the right direction.  Still a bit rough around the edges, but I anxiously await further versions.  Much easier than maintaining NAnt build files by hand.
• There aren’t enough hours in the day.

I haven’t been blogging much lately, largely due to the ongoing weirdness of my current employment situation, but I’m trying to be more conscientious about it.