I just listened to Scott Hanselman interviewing Dave Laribee regarding ALT.NET . I really like what Dave had to say, and I encourage everyone to go and listen. I've been reticent about the ALT.NET movement (aside from my initial surge of enthusiasm.) I'm a bit shy when it comes to controversy...

Last week or so, I stumbled on to the site for the Visual Studio 2008 Demo Challenge . The gist of the contest is to make a video explaining why VS 2008 is great, and then win stuff. Your video is played backed in a Silverlight app that your host at silverlight.live.com. So I make a video, and I think...

Jeremy Miller recently posted a general encouragement to blog. I'll add my voice to his and as well as confess that I have avoided posting sometimes out of fear of being stupid. The truth is, I am stupid. But blogging helps me unstupid, so I'm deliberately posting more. Francis Bacon said: R...

Despite the fact that I got off to a miserable start (walking along the Charles, rain soaked and a bit lost) today was a blast. I got to hear Rockford Lhotka (of CSLA fame) along with Anthony Handley describe their recent experiences with WPF. This was cool because they've been working on the same...

I want to link to Scott Bellware's post on attitudes regarding classic ASP. He makes an excellent point, and I agree with him. About four years ago, I remember telling my former employer about the epic superiority of ASP.NET over classic ASP. I could not deride classic ASP enough. Boy, was I a jerk...

We were recently contracted to assist a development team in employing some Best Practices . Specifically, they were interested in learning Agile. We began by speaking with the developers and managers to try to determine what would benefit them the most. We were only given three weeks to teach/guide/coach...