ADO.NET performance tip article by John Papa, from the May issue of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/DataPoints/default.aspx.
I'm also pleased to announce that like Kent, I've had a session accepted for the 2005 PASS Community Summit. I'll be doing my talk on Structured SQL Server Development (also presented at Code Camp III and Dev Teach 2005.) Should be good, and since it will be my third time delivering the talk I'll have almost all the kinks worked out!
Finally, I'd like to apologize for the fact that the level of quality of this blog has gone down so much recently. I've been ultra-busy with work, finishing my chapters for Pro SQL Server 2005, and preparing all of these talks for conferences! I've also been working on the next version of TSQLMacro. But I do keep a to-do list of technical topics for this blog, and it's now grown to around 25 items. I have some good stuff in there, so stay tuned! I hope to free up some time shortly.