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Every year Red-Gate sends all for their 'Friends of Red-Gate' a great Christmas basket, this year was no exception. You may be asking 'What is a Friend of Red-Gate '. This is a great program they started a while back to reach out to the development community ad thank them for their support...
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If you have not hear, Karl Seguin has authored a great, short eBook which he is giving away free to the world. This book is based of his blog series of the same title. Do yourself a favor and go download this book, it is pretty short and is a great read. There are great nuggets of information...
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I am happy and proud to announce that my good buddy (man, hope he feels the same) Kyle Baley aka The Coding Hillbilly is the first guest author to release an episode on DimeCasts.Net . The timing this release could not have been better as just yesterday he and Donald Belcham released their first .Net...
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Looks like I was tagged by Javier Lozano to explain to the world how how I got started writing code. Hold on tight as this may be a long, bumpy ride. How old were you when you started programming? Compared to most of the geeks out there, I was a late comer. I did not code my first application...
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All, I would like to be the first to welcome Sergio Pereira to the Devlicio.us family. I have known Sergio for some time now and I think he will have a lot of great things to say here. He is a fellow Alt.Net as well as being based out of the Chicago are. Again, welcome and let the good times...
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Today I came across a nice little list of items that employers can do to keep their employees happy. While reading through this list, two thoughts kept popping into my head that would truly sum up this list. Listen to your employees I know every company says they listen, but that is BS. Most only hear...
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Brad Abrams announced that there is an updated version of the poster available. You can get more information from Brad here . Till next time,
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One of the cool perks of being part of the Devlicio.us group is that we are part of the 'friends of RedGate' program. Every year at Christmas time they send us this great gift basket. This years basket came loaded with sparkling wine, cheese, chocolate, crackers, cheese biscuits, nuts and salmon...
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Today I was having an connectivity issue with my Windows Live Writer so I started googling for a solution. I came across the home page for Windows Live Writer, and I noticed that it was finally out of beta. YEA. I would recommend to anyone using this tool (nice tool by the way) to grab the latest non...
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Today Scott Gu announced on his blog that MS will be releasing the source for the .net framework with the VS 2008 release. You can read his post here. Till next time,
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I came across this great post on how to enable anonymous access in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007 tonight. This was very helpful because I was not able to get it working correctly for me, because I missed a step that this post stated. Post can be found here
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Today Dell announced its plans to go Carbon Neutral (wiki info here ). Personally i think this is pretty cool.... However, I am a little skeptical if they (or anyone else) will really follow through. You can read the article here . Till next time,
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Today I came across a nice post on 'Bug Driven Development' . This is something that most developers have experienced at one point in their career. I know I have. Kudos to Phil for coming up with this great name (if did not coin this term, then kudos to whom ever did). I agree with the post when...
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This is in response to a post by my good buddy joeyDotNet (found here ). Joey has an obvious but insightful post about how a software craftsman should bring their own tools with them to make them more productive. In his post he specially talks about carrying his own keyboard form place to place (even...
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I am not sure what has gotten into Scott, but it appears as if he is doing a brain dump over at CodeBetter.com. I just noticed that over the weekend he pump out a ton of insightful postings. You can find all of Scotts postings at his CodeBetter site here. Go Scott, Go, Till next time