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A few days ago my attention was drawn to a tweet spat between Karl Seguin and Scott Hanselman around the relaunch of ASP.NET and the title element in HTML. Tempest in a teapot of course, but worthwhile as I did some googling on Karl and found his blog...

With the iPad, e-reader and slate PC craze, I thought I’d put together some thoughts on a Microsoft tablet device that is not the Courier. Since the content is rather long I made it a word doc - Microsoft Tablet Thoughts . I have separate thoughts on...

Maybe my next post will just be about why I am so excited and impressed with the out of the box templates.  But, for this first blog with my new focus, I thought I would just walk through the process I went through to create a task progress report...

I have been spending more and more time on learning as much as I can on Agile Development and also have been fairly immersed in rolling out TFS 2010 in our environment.  I feel like it is time to talk about some of my experiences.  With that...

When I have discussions with people about Business Intelligence, one of the questions the inevitably come up is about building KPIs and how to accomplish that. From a technical level the concept of a KPI is very simple, almost too simple in that it is...

Many of you, since encountering OCS 2007 R2 and its trusty sidekick server-side API, UCMA 2.0, have been wondering, “How do I spy on people and secretly record their audio conferences?” Luckily for you, to complement its delightfully straightforward automation...

In my last post I discussed how some creative thinking on my part led me to redo large chunks of a task scheduling library. As promised, here are some of the major changes and what I learned from them.   Lush Verbiage In the refactor, I expanded...

Join us on Thursday, March 4th from 3 pm - 6 pm for Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 , presented by Microsoft Technical Fellow, Brian Harry . Attend this event to learn more about Microsoft’s vision for developer team solutions. ...

In the collection of interviews, Coders At Work , a common theme was the idea that when confronted with a difficult debugging problem, it can be better to just redo the troubled code rather then fix it. This may seem like an invitation to put on your...

For the time keeping component that I’ve mentioned before, one of the requirements was that it be able to run multiple actions or tasks at a given point in time. In case some of these tasks were particularly long running the idea was to run them in the...

I use Json all the time, but I feel like it’s super annoying in .NET.  Typically I’d call some web service that returns Json. In .NET it seems like the best thing to is to define a data contract and use the DataContractSerializer: [DataContract]...

I volunteer for INETA as the user group mentor for the Midwest Region (IL, IN, and WI). One of the things I'm planning to do differently this year is to better help spread the word on my blog about events happening in the region, whether they're...

I feel like an idiot for not realizing this sooner, but if you have the Surface touchpack for Win7, you can reference those Microsoft.Surface.Touchpack dlls in your Surface app, remove the regular Surface references and change the namespaces and voila...

Here are things I’ve been thinking about lately in regards to mobile advertising. Mobile advertising seems really underdeveloped. Maybe in part because it’s difficult to tailor ads to various devices and it’s easy to push the standard banner ad inventory...

I’m thinking I’ll just start blogging the random ideas I have. Maybe they are good and i will eventually do it or maybe someone else will and I reap the benefits or maybe they suck and nothing happens. Either way, I get a +1 on my blogging stats. I love...