I have been fairly active in DNN in the past but as I have been busy with other things and my current position not really using DNN (I use it for my own page and a hobby site I run) , I have lost touch with much of what has gone on in the past few months.

I have a few custom modules and I am reading a bit about people creating modules in WAP mode - which I am interested in converting to.   Where can I find information on setting up a development environment to work on and publish my modules? 

I am fairly disappointed in the messaging around releases.  New features are not adequately explained and I don't have hours and hours to go roaming through these forums and such to figure out what has actually been added in.  (I am currently running 4.5.3)    I have been to the Gemini page to review that but many features aren't actually explained what they are.   For instance - what is Human Friendly URLs?  I see it listed in Gemini but no decription of what it actually does.

I'd appreciate a head start from anyone who could point me to a good tutorial on setting up WAP and perhaps any explaination of recent additions to the core.

Thanks

is there a consolidated RSS feed or do i need to hit each one?

With all due respect, the OP was indicating the same thing- that searching for the information is time consuming. While it is understandable that compiling this on the front end would require considerable effort, at least then and there it is done once- rather than distributing that effort a thousand fold onto the readership (with varying results).

Subscribing to a consolidated blog feed still requires that one wade through things like "hey look at me" and "I thought this was interesting", etc. and doesn't really address the issue, but it's probably as close as we are going to get.
What we really need is to be able to subscribe to "all posts tagged: new feature" or something like that...