I gave myself a treat today and fired up VS.NET to work on updating my LJ client. I hadn't touched it in a while and there were some tweaks I wanted to do. Mostly, I switched the login from the XML-RPC to the flat interface, and it sped up the whole process like you wouldn't believe. I knew there was an overhead hit to the XML, but this is impressive.
The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck