# Was up wid me?

<datetime class="hidden">2006-05-09T00:00</datetime>
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Was up wid me? 

posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:38 AM

Well, I'm back from holiday - trying to get interested in coding again, which is harder than it should be! Anyway, in an effort to get back into things I've been reading a few blog articles which are pretty cool. 
The first is an [article on Viewstate serialization](http://weblogs.asp.net/vga/archive/2004/05/11/DontLetTheBinaryFormatterGetAtIt.aspx) by [Victor Garcia](http://weblogs.asp.net/vga/), which is pretty much essential reading if you're trying to squeeze every bit of performance from your Viewstate handling - good stuff!
Apart from that, I'm building another little server...and playing with some new toys including the new desktop machine I've just built (mid-range, Geforce 6600GT-AGP, Athlon 64 3000+, 1Gb Ram, 400GB RAID-0 SATA Array) should do me for a bit though I'll probably upgrade the RAM to 2Gb pretty soon to let me play with Windows Server 2003 / Longhorn on Virtual PC at a decent speed. The new server is made from all the bits left over from my old machine - so it should be pretty handy...don't know for what exactly but...
Anyway, as I say I'm trying to get back into coding again and you'll be the first to know when I get my brain rebooted ![](smile1_D53FAA84.gif)