Lessons relearned today.
As I learned from work, encoding can be a nightmare. And back in the summer Scott Hanselman did an entire show on internationalization found here at: (http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=36).
On another note, when creating files such as XML files via code, be mindful of your audience. Doing things such as saving in a specific encoding (i.e UTF-8) or ensuring that your code is well formatted for readers is essential. If you can guarantee that these files will not be viewed by an organic set of eyes, then go ahead and compress the document with a smaller file size. Or else, one day, you may end up eating your own dogfood.
One thing from work that I can talk about since it is public knowledge at Scott Guthrie's site is Product Studio: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2004/11/03/251930.aspx. Kind of cool to be using an internal product that made it to the big leagues. It becomes a privilege to say, "I used them way back when they were just an internal product" =P.
I haven't been listening to HanselMinutes lately and just noticed a new podcast from Oct 18. Scott interviews Scott Guthrie. How cool is that? Ub3r T1ght