Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Morning Coffee 125

• So I wasn't quite as close to the end of Dead Rising as I thought I was. Those who've played the game thru will understand.
• After their promising start, the Capitals lost yet again. At the 20 game point, they're now 6-13-1 for a league-worst 13 points. I think we're at the point where they need to fire Glen Hanlon. Nothing personal Glen, but it's not getting done. The only problem is who you would replace him with? Bob Hartley? Uh, no thanks. I think most Caps fans want Dale Hunter, but I think he's too involved with the London Knights - he's co-owner, president and head coach. But if we could get Dale, I'm guessing Glen would be gone in a heartbeat.
• The XNA team blog announced that XNA Game Studio 2.0's beta has released. The download is available from Creators Club Online. The big new feature in this release is network support, and they've shipped a new starter kit to get you started.
• In addition to shipping VS08 & .NET FX 3.5, a new CTP of SQL 2008 shipped yesterday. I couldn't find a good overview of what's new, but the SQL Express team has a post on what's new in just their corner of this release. (via Jesus Rodriguez)
• In more "I know it's Thanksgiving week, but we're shipping anyway" news, the Ruby.NET folks have shipped v0.9 - the first release since transferring control to the community. Does it run Rails? Not yet, but apparently they're "close to getting Ruby on Rails to run successfully". One thing that caught my eye is that it includes VS integration. Nice.