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Probably you already read this announcement somewhere else in the net, so I'll not replicate the news here.

What excites me the most are mainly two things:

• Part of the ASP.NET MVC framework are going to be included into the core ASP.NET framework: System.Web.Routing will be included in ASP.NET with the SP1, so around this summer, probably well before ASP.NET MVC is RTW
• Intellisense will work for Javascript files, and will have support for jQuery, Prototype and other popular JS library out of the box.

You can read more about the other improvements on ScottGu blog and see what's really changing on ScottHa one.

Now off to downloading it, but going to run it only on a VM.

One of the problem of having a blog with a Google PageRank higher than 3 is that you get flooded by a storm of spam. Be it comment spam or trackback spam it's a waste of server resources and, if not filtered, could fill your blog with tons of sex related links and more.

Last year Subtext included a integration with Akismet, the de-facto only spam blocking service available for free on the net. But last autumn I received more than 1000 spam trackback in one day and more than 30.000 on the same day in my Italian blog and Akismet was not able to block them. So I was forced to disable them, and since then I don't trust Akismet any more.

Today Keyvan announced a project he has been working on in the last months (and thinking about for the last three years): Waegis.

Waegis is a online spam blocking service, but unlike Akismet it's build entirely with .NET, which helps .NET to gain a few points in the general web development community.

Aegis, in Greek mythology, was the shield of Zeus, the King of Greek Gods... let's see if it will defend us from the attach of the trackback spam.

Just a last note: today the Alpha release has been announced, so it will take a few months before it become available for the general public.

A month ago a popular CSS blog asked: "What is your Javascript library of choice?"

Yesterday, after having received more than 1600 answers, he published the results.

The winner is clearly jQuery, with more than 50% of the preferences (actually 52%).

The second library is MooTools with 15% and third comes Prototype with 12%.

As the author of the survey says, the audience of his website is mainly composed by designers, so the results are a bit biased toward jQuery (which has been designed to port the CSS way of thinking into JavaScript development).

But based on the previous JS library surveys I published on my blog I think that jQuery can be considered an overall winner:

• in the survey about Ajax development in the .NET space, if we exclude the obvious winner which was ASP.NET Ajax, and the specific .NET frameworks, the first library was jQuery.
• the generic Ajax development one (which has been answered mainly by PHP and Java developers), Prototype was the winner, but followed closely (only 5% less) by jQuery; and I guess that if that survey has been published now, due to the number of tutorial being published about jQuery, the results would have been reversed.