If you haven't noticed by now, I have a bunch of .NETers on my blogroll -- even though I'm all Java these days, I enjoy reading up on how people are doing things elsewhere with other tools. The past week, a number of very interesting blog entries popped up from that part of the blogosphere and got my attention more so than some others:

• Mike Roberts of Thoughtworks has written up a nice kickstart series of blog entries on setting up a .NET development tree. He has also blogged about NVelocity, which caught my eye since just yesterday we ended up replacing a JSP with a trivial search-and-replace style templating engine in order to tackle a weird character encoding issue. I still haven't really tried out Velocity. I probably should. Another scribble on a loooong list, obviously.
• Also, Darrell posted links to a series of blog entries talking about a project at Microsoft that has adopted Scrum.
• Steve Eichert, in turn linked to an article talking about DDD.
• Steve also expressed that he's not too fond of TestDriven.NET not providing that red/green bar. My thoughts exactly. I actually asked about this recently in the XP Yahoo! group. I ended up using the NUnit GUI as well. That colorful bar is hard to beat. Talking of the power of a good illustration, what's wrong with whoever designed this site? Maybe it's just me but I can hardly see the text.