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• Foundations of Programming EBook - Great Read & ITS FREE

  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... Posted Jul 10 2008, 08:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .Net, Shout-Out, Featured, Announcement

• First guest author (Kyle Baley) on DimeCasts.net released today

  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... Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:28 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Shout-Out, Announcement, DimeCasts.Net

• How did I get started in Software Development?

  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... Posted Jun 24 2008, 07:41 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out, Announcement

• Welcome Sergio to Devlicio.us

  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... Posted Mar 27 2008, 11:36 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out

• 10 ways to keep employees happy (IT employees)

  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... Posted Mar 10 2008, 07:28 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out, Opinion

• .Net 3.5 Framework Namespace posted updated

  Brad Abrams announced that there is an updated version of the poster available. You can get more information from Brad here . Till next time, Posted Jan 14 2008, 07:50 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Shout-Out

• RedGate you rock, thanks again for the gift

  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,... Posted Dec 05 2007, 05:39 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, .Net, Shout-Out

• Windows Live Writer out of Beta (finally)

  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... Posted Nov 11 2007, 07:21 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out

• MS is releasing the .Net Source with VS 2008

  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, Posted Oct 03 2007, 12:55 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Shout-Out

• Great post on how to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2007

  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 Posted Oct 02 2007, 09:04 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Shout-Out, SharePoint

• Dell Going Carbon Neutral

  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, Posted Sep 26 2007, 03:40 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out, Opinion

• RE: Bug Driven Development

  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... Posted Sep 25 2007, 07:11 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Shout-Out

• RE: The importance of tools to a software craftsman

  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... Posted Sep 11 2007, 07:20 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Shout-Out, Opinion

• Brain Dumpage from Scott Bellware over at CodeBetter.com

  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... Posted Sep 10 2007, 09:43 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out

• New iPode touch

  Today Apple announced a new version of their iPod, the 'touch'. It appears to be the iPhone minus the phone part. It looks pretty cool. You can get some information about the touch from Apple's site here . I just happen to be in the market... Posted Sep 06 2007, 01:30 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Shout-Out, Opinion