On August 9th, it looks like Rocky will be in Grand Rapids at the West Michigan .NET User Group. I've never met him, but I've read a few of his articles (even commented on his writings here and here). He'll be talking about creating distributed object-or… more »

 I've recently been trying to expand my knowledge of different continuous integration tools, and one that I stumbled upon is DamageControl. I haven't used the software yet (because I don't have the time to play with it), but there was something on the si… more »

First, the news: At Gnomedex today, Microsoft is going to add an extension to RSS to support ordered lists, and Longhorn is going to be built with integrated RSS support.. The extension is released under a Creative Commons license (similar to the one I u… more »

Got your attention, didn't it? Anyway, I read this post by Alex Bosworth, where he knocks Microsoft pretty hard, and some of the knocks are definitely unjustified. The stuff he talks about reminds me of a post I made back in November about a conversation… more »

Make Magazine has a cool article about taking a PC and building your own media center - right down to including a gaming system using N64 controllers and emulators. One of the cool things I found was the streaming music using SlimServer, although I tried… more »

Dave Winer posted earlier this week about the announcement coming from Microsoft about RSS support in IE 7, even explaining that he had permission to post the information. Well, Paul Thurott wasn't happy about it, but he's got it wrong from what I can s… more »

No, it's not out yet, but I saw one of the features they added, and I want it now! It supports getting the latest version automatically from Vault instead of relying on a nant script to do so for you. This would be a huge benefit to me right now, because… more »

In case you didn't notice, I follow the new articles on 4GuysFromRolla, and I have for a while now - I found it through a co-worker in '99, back when I was doing ASP work! Anyway, recently, I've been linking to quite a few of the articles there written b… more »

As NuSoft continues to grow, it sounds like we're looking more and more into hiring people right out of college. Most of our current hires are experienced hires, and the process is different. You can't really expect someone out of college to have a ton o… more »

I've been using VPC as my primary development environment for a couple of months now, and I've found my first annoyance. I thought I had a solution, but it didn't work out as I'd hoped. First, the problem. I work on multiple clients, and often, I want to… more »