Well, it has been a while since I have been here, and little has changed. I see you have opened the new design up for public review. Something tells me that regardless of how the public reviews turn out, this beta design is going into production very soon. But anyways, here is what I think about it...
It sucks. The front page appears to be an unorganized jumbled mess of portlets tattooed in light blue. This layout and these colors make me feel blue. More importantly, on a site such as this, the information needs to be well laid out and easily accessible. It is clearly apparent that information architecture was not the focus of the redesign. Example... Say I am a first time visitor and I want to get started learning ASP.NET. I would likely be intrigued to click "Get Started". Once it comes up, I get a very brief paragraph about the purpose of ASP.NET and then all of a sudden I am confronted with a list of example sites/companies using ASP.NET. Now, I dont even know what the hell ASP.NET is and now you are telling me who is using it. How does that help me get started? It doesn't - it is completely irrelevant. Hmmm, maybe I should click one of these links to learn more about how these companies are using it. Whoops, now I am at the MySpace front page greeted by 3 script errors. Thanks!
This makes me wonder... what exactly was the focus of this redesign? Can anybody answer this? Stuff is harder to find than ever before, and the site flat-out looks bad, IMO. Aesthetics have shamefully overridden usablity and I think the designer is to blame for this. I wish you would have partnered with Happy Cog for a more ingenuity-based design. Don't get the wrong idea - I don't have any problems with Goldman Design, in fact I have seen several of his sites that look great (IIS.net is spectacularly organized, for example). I just don't think he applied enough of his talent towards this project.
On a more positive note, the AJAX section looks much better than before and the content is laid out nicely. You did a good job on this one.
On a more negative note, continuously neglecting to correct this sites legendary search problem(s) makes you all look utterly foolish. You are letting petty and subtle cosmetic enhancements supercede functionality, which is a disgrace and a disappointment to say the least.
I am not a hater; I really would like this site to be perfect. But I just don't understand some of your decisions. So there you have it, my two cents.