I've released the beta for GdnSwfObject that is now available for download from CodePlex. This has really been a fun project for me since it is my first venture into the Open Source community. It's a low visibility project but the fact that it's getting a few downloads here and there is kind of cool :)

If you decide to use the GdnSwfObject server control, you can view the API documentation for instructions on how to use the control.

The final release of the control will be some time in July. This final release will include the new swfobject 2.2 runtime.

I've recently posted my first open source project on CodePlex. GdnSwfObject is an ASP.NET server control for placing Flash movies on ASP.NET pages using the great SWFObject JavaScript technology.

If you feel like giving it a shot, pop on over the project at CodePlex and give it a whirl.

I am sure that many of you have already heard this, but Microsoft is going to ship jQuery with ASP.NET 3.5 MVC. This is HUGE for client development.

Read about some of the rationale from the man himself.

I have recently become unsatisfied with the stale content that is on my website at GrannetDotNet. I have decided that it is time for a change of scenery: GrannetDotNet is going to be re-faced sometime soon. The content will be somewhat the same, but I hope to publish more syndicated content from a number of blog areas in the near future to place on this site.

That being said, I am in a bit of a dilemma also with my blog. The current blog software that I use was written by myself and is several years old. There are many good blogging engines out there and I believe that I am going to use one of those. In a way, it is a sad thing to think about. This blog was the first piece of MeWare that I ever wrote and I kind of hate to see it go. But, it has been a good blogging platform and hopefully I can maintain the history that is in this little personal Web outlet.

More to come soon...

Jason Hiner of TechRepublic today posted an interesting message to his blog about the recent happenings between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. His post has some very interesting points, but a man by the name of Peter Buick from the UK posted a very interesting comment to the discussion of Hiner's blog posting. For more, please read: 'The Polite Street Mugger' from Buick's blog.