The Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft has officially released Enterprise Library 3.0 for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0.  New features in this release include:

• Validation Application Block
• Policy Injection Application Block
• Application Block Software Factory
• Visual Studio Integrated Configuration Editor
• Environmental Overrides
• WCF Integration
• Pre-compiled, strong-named libraries.

I guess it's about time to jump into the blog-o-sphere.  I've read plenty of blogs, most of them technical, and have always wanted to participate in my own.  Whether I write anything of value remains to be seen.

A little background, I guess.... I'm the Director of Information Technology for a small game company in southern California, but I've been around computers my whole life.  I started programming in high-school up until I got out of the Navy.  Since then, all of my career opportunites have been on the network engineering side of the house....firewalls, routers and switches, NetWare, Windows, Linux and Solaris....It's what I do.