It's been a while since I've blogged about EPiServer (or anything) but today I heard that Service Pack 1 for EPiServer 5 CMS has been released.  It contains quite a few bug fixes and a few minor changes.  The one new significant thing for me is the improved support for ASP.Net profiles. 

You can get the full details here.

I guess it's going to be a while yet before we need to memorise al these new tags, but there are some major changes and a lot of nice new things coming along in HTML 5. Definately worth a read.  I particularly like the things they have left out - especially framesets!

My Christmas project was to create a new house for our chickens that was easier to clean than the last one - which was realy just an oversized dog kennel - which you can see behind sticking out from behind the new version in this phone photo:

I used some plans from buildeazy.com which made things a lot simpler, but I did make a few changes.  The coop has a window at the rear which I got from a local demolition yard for $65.  There's a lot of timber in this design, probably more than the chickens appreciate, but at least it will never blow away in the strong winds we get.

All up, I think it cost about $NZ1000.  A local business sells ready made units for about $NZ800-$NZ900 but they are quite a bit smaller and nowhere as sturdy as this one.